. >> gertrude: my name is gertrude. i'm from congo, brazzaville.gertrude: for sure, we like the weather because we don't have snow here. in summer, i know it's very hot here, but it's good for planting. and people are nice in houston. >> anthony: many of the more recent arrivals in houston come from places where life is unbelievably hard and often dangerous. many come from agrarian backgrounds, arriving here without the skill set needed to compete for jobs in an urban situation. plant it forward, a non-profit urban farming program, provides refugees like gertrude and albert lombo access to land where they can make a living from the ground. so here we are, middle of houston -- a lush, fertile plot where eggplant, squash, string beans, and other produce is grown to be sold at farmers markets and to restaurants around town. fellow congolese/houston transplants guy mullet and constant, ngouala. chefs when not tending their crops, prepare an outdoor meal for the lombos and a group of friends and fellow farmers. congolese, but with a definite cajun touch

we're gathered here today to say farewell to gertrude harris. while i did not have the honor to know gertrude, it's easy to see that she made many friends in this world. affectionately as aunt gerty. did you hear that, dad? nobody called her gerty. aunt gerty brought joy to many of us in this room. she was a very musical person, despite the handicap of being tone deaf. she wasn't tone deaf. i was. but as with all of us, aunt gerty has passed on to a better world. no! her name was aunt trudy. mallory, sit down, please. 't just like everyone else. how can you talk about a woman you never met? come on, honey, sit down. no, dad! nobody cares that aunt trudy's gone. alex is thinking about his garage sale, and the reverend can't remember her name. excuse us, reverend. we all share your grief at this moment. no, you don't! i was the closest with her. i shared secrets with aunt trudy of you knew she was a dancer? i knew that. and that she used to fight off dates in a rumble seat? that i didn't know. all of you are just looking at your watches, trying to

-just a minute, gertrude. -iceberg. -blockhead, go back to your dishpan. -well, how's your big sister getting along? still making the little one tow the mark? -she's running the little kid ragged. ittle mutt's never worked so hard in her whole life. -well, today's the last day at camp. tonight she can go home from her vacation and rest. -big deal now is the campfire play the kids are putting on tonight. hey, you think kathy could relax and watch the other kids? oh, no. betty has laid down the law. kathy has got to have the lead, got to be the heroine. and all this just so kathy can get up enough points to be top girl in camp, win a gold arrow or something. not a breath of air outside. -well, it's going to rain. you can tell, my hair is curly. -wonder what the kids are doing? -oh, the last evening at the camp. they're probably getting ready for the campfire and a program of some sort. -if they're going to have a campfire, they better hurry. storm is coming right out of the north, ought to be over indian springs right about now. -well, the oddest feeling. i

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>> i'll talk to sister gertrude. >> i promise to be good.ast for you today, high pressure in control today. and part of tomorrow. at least nice start to the month of november. here comes colds front whether will it come through? probably tomorrow afternoon. i think we'll get through the morning commute just fine tomorrow. already jumped ahead in the future cast through tomorrow. here see the green, rain rolling in around 1:00 in the afternoon through about three, 4:00. may clip the early part of the evening rush. but if we're luck at this will not complicate your day any more if you try get through the septa-free day so we have possibly ahead. 52 degrees right now, we have 44 mount pocono, 51 degrees in wild dollars would, 47 degrees in lancaster, and 50 in trenton as your day gets started. how about where did we go yesterday? right around the average high of 61, high of 60, look at this roller coaster ride. now that, roller coast letter go back up today to 73 degrees, 78 tomorrow. the record for tomorrow's date is 80. we get close to that,

but it's that way in every family, archie. ster helen is also my sister gertrude's-- oh, stifle it, will ya? i understand. hey, what is this? what's in these bottles? oh, those are oscar's vitamin supplements. he don't need no supplements. the guy eats as much as all of us put together. if oscar was here regular, i'd give myself three months... then it's over the hill to the poor house for me. eggs, archie? t away. no. let me, ma. did he bring these vitamins with him? oh, no. when i went shopping they was on his food order. his-- his food order? edith, these vitamins cost the moon. - what else was on the food order? - nothing. just the regular. meat, fruit, liquor. you bought him liquor? you only had rye. he wanted brandy. well, just look a little harder, little girl, will ya? use your eyes over there. edith, what have we got going here? brandy? who do i look like, the duke of windsor? edith, let me see the rest of the food order. i don't have it. i think i threw it away. what do you mean you think you threw it away? "a," you did or "b," you didn't. pick one. she says there are no cigars