Had a couple of recurring questions regarding my boys will be boys post. So I thought I'd oblige and answer them here.
First, what does Pete have in his garden? Might be easier to tell you what Pete doesn't have in his garden! The picture is just of a small plot behind the house. There are also rows all the way down the pipeline towards his brother's house. And there is another larger square to one side of the house, out towards the hog pen and the pond.
So we have: potatoes, greens, squash, watermelon, cantelope, peas, okra, tomatoes (several kinds), eggplant, butterbeans, peppers, and corn. I think that's all. I'm not sure.
And the second question was how did Bubba get that four wheeler out? Being young and almost 18, he is a high-tech redneck. He had his cell phone with him. Kept him and Brandon from having to walk all the way out just to get help. So they called Pete's cousin and he and his son-in-law came down the river in a boat with a very long cable, a chain and a set of come-a-longs. Once they got there it took them about 45 minutes to come-a-long it out of that hole.
See, sometimes I forget I live in Caneyhead. Most everybody around here just assumes you have what we have in a garden. And anyone around here would have looked at Bubba's picture and the location I gave and known what it took to get it out. I forget sometimes just how big and diverse the world is; even in the South. ;o )
P.S. - We are now planning to go to Galveston on Saturday. Bubba will be at the TSA Regionals with his top secret project. And Bug will be somewhere with Aunt Edna. But around here, you never can tell and you don't count your chickens before they hatch. And if you count them afterward, you'll likely find you loose one or two each day to some varmit or another.
Sounds like what we used to have in a garden many years ago. Glad that they got Bubba's four wheeler out of that mud. Helen
ReplyDeletePete's garden sounds like the normal garden at my Mom's house. I enjoyed this post!
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LOL...you have such a sweet outlook on everything...and the garden sounds really great....do you put alot of it up...canning..freezing....we just have big enough to eat right now....or give away...hubby being the farm boy has to get some dirt under his fingernails...LOL...me...I just eat whatever come out of it LOL...Hugs from KY...Ora
ReplyDeleteI've never had a garden that big... mostly we've grown tomatoes, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, and rhubarb... I made lots of chow-chow back then, and some rhubarb-strawberry pie. But we haven't had a garden in years. I don't do canning, but I do freeze tomatoes. I admire folks who keep a garden, and can everything... I learned just from making the chow-chow that you have to have lots of time during the day or the evening to get all that work done, and I'm just beat after I get home from school. There is nothing better than homegrown vegetables, that's a fact. It's in the taste and the availabel nutrition. Hats off to you, homegrown Ms. America!! <grin> Yep, boys'll be boys. bea
ReplyDeleteI would like to have a big garden someday. Most of my vegetable growings have been experimental and not very productive! Linda
ReplyDeleteYou are leaving me laughing!!! The South is it's own place. You about need a passport to enter it is so different from the rest of the country!
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Dearest Barbara,
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Lots of love
and your grasdensing exceeds all normal limits!
Have agreat time in galveston!
love,natalie
hello friend love the pics and living with boys i am so sure is so different then girls lol but they keep you busy it looks like and they seem like good boys you must be so proud the garden sounds good which we had a yard for one but maybe some day hope you have a great week and weekend God bless kelley
ReplyDeleteOkra, did I hear you say okra? Eggplant did I hear you say eggplant too? Drat, sure wish we could have put in a small garden, just nothing like veggies grown in your own soil. I love them pickling cucumbers to. Like to pick them before they get a chance to get too big and eat them just like that. Anyway, one look at that four-wheeler and I knew who I'd be calling and that would be my hubby, he'd sure know how to get it out, what you'd need to get it out with but he's and Indiana transplant that moved to the south while he was just a teenager. I kind of thing some Indiana farm boy would know how to do that too so even across the Masion Dixon line there are folks that you could call Southern too. Love this post. Like your style.
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BARBARA,
ReplyDeleteI MISS HAVING A GARDEN. IT IS GOOD HAVING A LARGE VARIETY OF GARDEN PLANTS FOR YOUR OWN USE AND THE PLEASURE OF GIVING PRODUCE TO OTHERS.
FRIED OKRA IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. OTHER THINGS GOOD TO EAT WHILE IN THE GARDEN. I LIKED WARM WATERMELON, THOUGH SITTING IN THE SHADE WHEN EATING IT. sam
Having been born and raised in the south, I actually understand this entry, for example, I know what a varmit is, a come-a-long, and I know what "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" means, lololol.
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Susan
I think the last time I seen a garden that big, it was on a farm where they had to hire people to pick the harvest. I know, they tried to get me to do it, and about the only things I've ever picked was the cotton out of an asprin bottle so I said Nooooooo thank you. I guess I am a true city slicker now... Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteYou make me hungry for the veggies in your garden, and you make me hunger for the garden I planted years ago, think I'll hop in the car and take a drive down for dinner, I should arrive some time this summer, if I start today. gg
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