Just checkin' in...

Hi friends! I've been so busy and I realized that it's been over a week since I posted. I've been able to read a few of your blogs at work, but that's been about it.

Good news is that we got a little bit of rain this morning early-early. We have had such hot dry temps for the last few weeks, hottest I've seen in several years, some near record highs. I know there's folks that are alot worse off than we are in other areas of Texas. Check out Berte's pecan farm at Riverbend Farm out west - she said their pecan crop this year is not going to be very good. I know there are others needin rain, too. Our yards and fields around here have been dry and brown and crackly for awhile. The weatherman said it'll be a little cooler in the 90's instead of the 100's + for hopefully most of next week.

My garden's gone to seed. Me and daddy picked all the last of the purple hull peas Wednesday after supper from his garden and we looked at the thermometer and it read 102 - this was at 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. It was so hot, but we needed to get 'em up. He was fixin' to plow 'em under. I started feelin a little nauseated and dizzy so we tried to hurry.

I WISH I would've had my camera. Daddy has this big fan motor that he built a frame for. Well, he got the bright idea to run an extension cord from the shop out to the garden and pointed it on me 'n him while we were pickin' peas. It's so strong, it 'bout blew us away. But it stirred up some air and blew the wasps to smithereens (they love peas and the pea flowers), and of course a little sand. We looked a sight!!! We just rolled it along with us down the rows!!!! "You might be a redneck iffen.... you pick yer vegetables in the hot sun with a big ole shop fan a-blowin' on ya to cool ya off..."

Ahhh, country life. My mama said she didn't want any more peas cuz their freezer won't hold another thing. She doesn't like gettin' in the garden because of bees and wasps. If you don't bother them they won't bother you. I don't like em but I'm not scared of em. We just go ahead and pick and they move out of the way. Mom's not really into all the farm-y stuff. Daddy and me ARE. So I carried all the peas home - nearly another 2 bushels, and I've been shellin peas the last coupla nights. My fingers are purple...

Well, we are celebrating the 21st birthday of my daughter this weekend. Her brothers won't b3 here but we will do something fun and nice for her, and of course see the grandparents sometime, too. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, hope it's cooler wherever you are, and hope & pray that those who need it get some rain. I'll see you next week!