Hooks or Crooks … The Importance of Hanging Baskets…

A long History

Dear Reader:

When I was moving ” Big Red and Little Big Red” to my new home I moved planter hooks and later realized how important it is to buy heavy iron stakes or your hanging basket goes on a free form ride every time the wind picks up!

I am sure it is experiencing our own Wise Men or Shepard’s roles in our own first Christmas pageant that also introduces us to the difference between shepherds watching their flock by night with a staff and heavy planter hooks to secure heavy hanging baskets.

Secured double planters
Light messages
Light is right for Welcome Signs
Look at this beautiful transitional plant that will need a heavy double hook to raise it
Double Beauties low and high

So until tomorrow… staffs, hooks. crooks throughout history ….every type has a place in man’s history… protecting, and beautifying!

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”
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