Good Easter Sunday morning to you all! Isn’t it great to be alive and kickin? Very special day for us today, is it not? We hope every one of you have a great day, and get to see and visit with many of your friends and family.
Ole Deb and I are planning to go to sunrise service, swing back by the house to change clothes, then headin up to my Mom and Dad’s for dinner, no not supper dinner, lunch dinner! My Mama loves to cook, and dern if her first born son…don’t love to eat!
Anway, we spend most Easter’s up there with them, and most all the family attends. You know Mama’s, if they have their kids around, especially when they’re getting to cook for them too, then they’re right in the middle of their environment! Ya gotta love them Mama’s! I know I love mine!
Well, we’ve bout finished up in the greenhouse. We have a little room left, but that will soon be taken by three more rows of tomatoes, some celery, and a few bell pepper plants. After that, it’s waitin on it to come in.
The grow area is complete, all but the row and a half we’re savin for the black tomatoes. All our squash, peppers, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, watermelons and cantaloupes are in the ground.
Good night a livin though, that dern topsoil we brought in is sproutin weeds, ALMOST as fast as Deb can talk. For those who don’t know Deb, she can bump them gums well. Actually, very, very well! LOL! So that ought to give ya a good idea as to how fast those little weeds are growin off.
That’s okay though…I got something for em! My hands, and my “hula hoe!” That’s a dirt bustin, aeratin, weed gettin, sucker. I’ll ATTEMPT to get Deb back behind that scoundrel again, but that hasn’t been workin out real well.
I take the derrn thing outta the shed, try and put it in her hands, and she takes a 9 mm. out of her back pocket…everytime! I ask her if she’d REALLY shoot me over the hula hoe, and she just grins and says, “Yeah, I’d shoot you, but not over the hula hoe.” Wonder what that means??
After that, let’s take a joke break…this from our buddy Wayne, in Alma, Georgia.
Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one Day.
As they walk, they come across a sign:
“Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world.”
“I am entering” said Snow White.
After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, “Well, how’d ya do?
“First Place,” said Snow White.
They continue walking and they see a sign:
“Contest for the strongest man in the world.”
“I’m entering,” says Superman.
After half an hour he returns and they ask him, “How did you make out?”
“First Place,” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”
They continue walking when they see a sign:
“Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?”
Pinocchio enters.
After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.
“What happened?” they asked.
“Who the he.. is Barack Obama?” asked Pinocchio.
Okay, let’s share a few greenhouse pictures of how things are doin.
This, from left to right, are eggplants, crookneck squash, and watermelons. Look at the weeds coming up, but again, this Monday those will be…history. The new dirt must have been full of them, but, we’ll work through this and have em under control. We’d been so busy getting everything set out, these had to wait.
From left to right, sweet peppers, lemon and straight-neck squash, onions, and cucumbers…and weeds!
Our tomatoes. The left will be our black tomatoes when they’re ready to set out. In the pic, there’s 121 already out.
These are some tomatoes in the greenhouse.
Japanese cucumbers in the stands, with peas for our juice behind them, then some lettuces on the far end.
There’s our volunteer tomatoes on the left. In the middle bed are some vegetables Deb has put into 6” pots to sell. We first have to set them outside on the benches you see in the 3rd. picture from the top. This is to harden them, or get them used to the sun after being raised in the greenhouse. It takes about a week.
If you remember, I killed about 50 plants by not doing this.
Well, we once more would like to wish you all a Happy Easter. Take care, and God Bless! Deb’s hollerin for me to tell ya’ll to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!
Dub and Deb
If it wasn’t for the pictures nobody would have believed you HaHaHa.
First of all………what a beautiful day for Easter celebrations. Sounds like you are going to enjoy it.
Your greenhouse looks wonderful. Gonna send you a picture of our garden tomorrow.
Have you ever grown celery before? Has anyone?
Sorry ’bout no Easter Greeting to all. Especially you, Deb and Dub. Too busy
packing up to travel to the great state of Tennesee. Visiting, visiting.
Even left the pups behind with their two Easter eggs. Said my Easter prayers
and hit the road.
Sandy Grant, Mama grew celery in sand at the faucet outside facing the west sun.
It did not make the celery we get in the market. It was mostly green and thin. She did not care because she used it for cooking only. Mississippi is pretty hot and humid
and cool weather crops bolt at every little warm spell. Celery will do that.
Happy belated Easter all. See you in Mississippi in 30 days.