Just finished up some peaches and they were very good.  They were from Georgia being as I live only 15 miles from Lake Park Georgia here in North Florida.  After slicing and chilling in fridge I processed about 1 cup in blender with dash of Nettles Barbecue Sauce and coated my pork ribs and turned out quite tasty.  Love fresh peaches.

We picked a few beans the other day when WI was here with Phillip.  There was a lady said she wanted to come over and pick beans for canning, but then called later and said she couldn't make it.  It was probably due to the heat.  She has a breathing problem and carries around one of those portable oxygen thingies.  I did pick beans today after we got home from breakfast and it took me two hours to get them all picked.  I filled up one 5-gallon bucket and almost half of the second one.  Maybe next year I can get WI to take more home with her, but then she will probably have her own beans by then.

Here I am just sittin round and kinda bored. Hubby has a lot of back pain so he's retired for the evening. It's been raining here this afternoon and now a slow rain. I'm glad to see any rain. It will still take a lot to get things back to normal. At least I don't have to water the flowers.

I need to pick up some more potting soil. I want to get  some Georgia Collard seeds started. That's right..we plant Georgia Collards in SC..LOL Got my garden disced again and soon we'll be getting it ready for the fall garden of mustards, kale, turnips and collards. Love those greens with some fat back and cornbread!

Dale if you see this..I was wondering about those Jeruselum Artichokes. When do you dig them? The ones you sent me are amost 6 foot tall and still nice and green. Everyone of them lived and grew like crazy.

I reckon I'm going to check around the site and see if there's anything going on in chat.

Good Morning Bean People...It is HOT this way ...Hay Gloria, Seems we passed in the night a few days ago...LOL...Not that it matters...and I still have to go read around...but seems I am less points now...is this just from the crash and the loss of post?...

Well !!! Let's see if I can post away

I've been peeking in but not posting. It looked like we couldn't there for a little while. I'm so glad we're back up now!! I'm addicted to this place and was going through major withdrawal!

Gloria, I've got to try some of them greasy beans, and I know better than to eat the seeds! I have been wanting to tell you that I got some good ol' South Carolina Peaches in the grocery store about two weeks ago.....they are without question the best peaches I've had all summer. The Georgia ones are real good too.....I ran into a lady in the grocery store who told me that she bought some Texas peaches at the farmers market and they were great.....I wasn't going to tell that lady that I've tried peaches from all over the country, from Michigan, from Colorado (both are very good,) from California (which are okay, but not the best,) from New Jersey (also very good,) and from GA and S.C. and those are without question the best....The Texas ones just aren't too great. I think the real problem with trying to grow peaches here is that it's super hot....If they try to grow them anywhere around this part of Texas, it's way too dry to keep anything growing well -- unless you have a real industrial strength irrigation system, and the powers that be in our county government want people to water between the hours of Midnight and 10 am and that's not going to happen unless you have a computerized in ground sprinkler system.

Here we are again in the Bean Patch..it feels soooo good to be home! I've been over in my brother's bean patch this morning and picked a half bushel of Butterbeans. Midday I'll kick back, watch soap opera's and shell them.

As Greasy beans are the special beans of North Carolina, Butterbeans are the special for us in S. Carolina. Next year I'm going to try and plant the running type on a fence. All that bending and kneeing don't feel very good anymore.

Have a good day everyone!

I have been checking in to see if I could post a reply yet and this is the first it has been available since the crash.  I have been busier than I care to be for the last week or so.  I would like to go over the mountain to pick berries, but tomorrow it is supposed to get almost 100 degrees and berry picking just isn't that important when it's that hot.  Besides that WI is going to bring Phillip by to see us, so I don't want to miss that.

I picked beans this morning before we got a bunch of company for grilled burgers.  The seniors group came to our place again this year for what has become an annual BBQ.  It's always fun.  I have known some of those folks for almost 40 years and they still put up with me.  I left the beans on the back porch so the seniors would have access to them and take some home.  There was one lady there that had never had fresh green beans and didn't know how to prepare them.  I told her I would give her a 5 minute lesson, but it only took 3.  She is from Scotland and has apparently never grown any green beans.

It's so grand to be home! I feel like jumping up and down and doing a happy dance! WI, great to see you again -- on the boards that is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gloria,  I've missed you! Now we need to find Randy and Rosie!

just seeing if I can post...

 Dahlia: I bought this Dahlia bulb at Wal-Mart, not sure of the name.

I'm so proud of this one! I think it was Penny that sent me my first red Dahlia bulb last year and I've gone Dahlia crazy since! Dizzy has also shared with me and I have lots of them growing now from bulbs and seeds! This is my first to bloom this season.

 Cala Lily: This is a Calla Lily I planted in partial shade two years ago and has finally bloomed.

I just wanted to see if I could add a pic now...whoooo hoooo..it worked.

I got some of the three foot long chinese red beans from Jonnies this year and I cannot wait till the ground is warm enough her to plant them.

It is only 65 here today for the high.  I hope we actually get a summer this year LOL  But I am sure come August, I will be complaining about the heat LMBO 

I picked my first yellow squash yesterday. Got 3 of them and they sure were good last night all battered up and fried.

I've been out shopping today and got a deal on Hydrangias. I got 3 for $5 and they're right large ones too. I got a blue, a white and a very light pink. I just love deals like that. Waiting for the cool of the afternoon now and I'll get them planted. I like to plant things just before or after a rain. I'm hoping the weather channel is right and we get some of the wet stuff tonight otherwise I'll be pulling around the garden hose again.

I do not work again till Saturday which means was not supposed to work for 7 days straight( they called me in for a few hours on Tuesday).

I could have gotten all bent but instead I decided this was a vacation.  Unpaid but none the less time off.

SOOOO........

I have been out taking pictures of my blooms and tending my seedlings (tomato and red and green basil)

Planting the hydrangia I bought myself for Mother's day ( see the mother's day gift thread for explaination) LOL

4 orange Canas

and two orange dalihas I bought for the urns on the sides of our walkway.

I got some great coleus too but I have to clear weeds out from that area before I plant them.

But mostly I have been following my bliss. Painting, not walls but canvas.

I am working on a huge Iris that is blue purple and pink.  A couple weeks ago I did a gerber daisy.   

I don't know if I posted but a cousin of mine who is only 18 months older than me died of a heart attack a couple weeks ago.  It really shook me.

It also motivated me to start getting back to the things I like to do and stop doing stuff I do because other people want me to do.

I decided it is not selfish to take time to persue the things God made you good at.

If I ever figure out how to post pictures in here I will post the paintings I have done.  LOL they are of flowers after all LOL

Roman's

 That is why I was so grateful to yu Kind Sir for the veggie plants...I have enough to fill my need to talk to them and as mike said...now will stay sain...somewhat any ways...LOL

It's me vegemm "So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase." 1 Corinthians 3:7