Tag: gardening
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Processing… Sweet Corn
Honestly, I’m not certain when I was old enough to notice my family and our sweet corn freezing process. Only that we have done it all the years we have been farmers. Technically Dad became a farmer when I was 5, but Papaw Freddy was always a farmer at heart. So it would seem forever.…
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Hoosiers… and their Sweet Corn
Our neighbors dropped us off some sweet corn this afternoon. Talk about a surprise and trying to find out how we can work it up really fast. Mom was the one who answered the door to him and like the green beans from last year he gave us quite a load of work. Work, we…
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The Reunion, 2025
Seeing family is good. Sometimes we only see our other branches on this day alone though, sadly. We don’t always have everybody most years and some skip a year every once in a while. It all depends on our schedules I suppose. Or on how long it takes us to get to the Shelter house…
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Weekend Thoughts…
Wow it was quite the weekend. My family closed on my Grandparents house after a very long process. Plus you all know about the green beans from the same day. However, that was before exhaustion hit us in various stages. On Friday I did most of the green bean preparations, but my parents did help…
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A Green Bean Surprise
We had a nice cool walk today for a nice change. Afterwards I ate breakfast, but then Mom and I took a little trip into Linton. When we got back we were surprised to see our neighbor, his dog and a big bucket of freshly taken out of the garden green beans. Even from where…
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The Hands of My Fathers
Sunday Afternoons for the longest time would be in his living room. Grandma Doris and Uncle Bob; they would welcome this deluge of Bishop’s as we filled their entire room. Great-Grandpa Arlie as some called him or the newspaper would misspell his name as Arle; was an intriguing man. The Lord has blessed me over…
Jewells of Thought 