Prize fatigue had to set in after a while; it’s the same dang things, year after year. The pretty Dresser Set. The archery kit. The chemistry set which, no matter how kids tried, couldn’t help you make acid to burn through floors or throw in the face of a bully, although that might make him go underground and become totally devoted to evil, so nevermind.

Something new has crept in: you can have some items for selling seeds AND adding a few bucks. Which you got from Dad. Even though he said you had to sell all the seeds yourself, he took a box to work and some of the guys who work for him bought some.

He was the boss, after all.