Ridin out the Recession

Good morning, and I hope all are well today! How about Father’s Day? Did you guys have a good one? Ours was great!

Well, our spring garden has done come and sprung! Honestly I can’t say that I’m very sad right at the moment, and I know Deb’s ready for a break. We have, picked, shelled, cooked for meals, and canned for later on down the road.

We’ve really had a dry spring this year, but all in all, the garden did excellent. It has supplied us, and our family with some really good eating, and we’ve put up enough that we should be able to eat butter beans, string beans, corn, and canned tomatoes, pickles, etc., probably until next year’s spring garden.
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Good morning, and how are you all today? I want to wish everyone a Happy Father’s Day as well!

Can you guys believe how fast Father’s Day has gotten here once again? I swear it seems like it was just a couple months back. My Dad used to tell me, “Son, whatever you do don’t get old.” The problem I have is, he never told me how not to!

We went by to see my Dad and Mom this morning. Deb and I will probably go up again Sunday, but we aren’t 100% sure yet. With everything that goes on normally in our lives, then Deb’s little problem she’s encountered health wise, our lives scheduling wise, have been disrupted some, to say the least. But, what’s the old saying, “That’s life, huh?”
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You know, I was just talking to you guys about pulling up the corn, getting off what we could salvage, and then feed the stalks and cleaned ears to the cows.

We went out yesterday morning to do just that. Then we got to looking at the ears, and started picking them. Well, once we got through we had considerably more than I would ever have guessed.

The cows did get to eat some today, but not what they would have liked to, or what I’d have liked to have given them. By the time we finished picking, we only had time to pull up about ¼ of what we’d planned to give them.
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Well, today we’ll be picking the last of our corn. Once it’s picked, we’ll cream it like we’ve been doing. I’m telling you I don’t know if there’s anything Deb likes better than creamed corn…’cept me maybe!!

After we pick it, we’ll pull it up and take it to the cows. It is so dern dry around here the grass looks as if it’s had a hard frost on it. Seriously, it looks that bad. We’re awful dry, especially for this time of the year.

Matter of fact it’s been so dry around here lately, the trees are bribing the dogs! June starts our rainy season, but for some reason we’re just not getting any rainfall.
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Good morning, guys. How is everyone today? We sure hope all is well in regards to you and your families, and thank you for stopping back in to see Deb and me! You guys are great!

Anyway, last night I was sittin’ out in the swing just taking a few minutes of quiet time. The days have been blistering hot, and we sure could stand some rain, but last night it had cooled off and we had a nice breeze going.

It rained about 5 miles down the road, but although we didn’t get any of it, it was close enough that at least it cooled us down some. It was really, really nice.
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Good morning to all, and we hope everyone is doing just great! Thanks for stopping back by to see us this morning.

Well, first off we took Deb yesterday and had her port put in to start chemo treatment next Wed., the 15th. She’s doing absolutely fine, and ready to start “kickin some butt!” She’s got the Doctor speaking in her terms now too, as the last thing he told her this past Monday was… “Let’s start kickin some butt!”

Deb just kinda rubs off on you if you’re around her much at all.
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