What's Fer Dinner GUYK?

How about some black eyed peas fresh out of the garden boiled up with about 2/3 shelled and a third snapped. Add a slice of bacon and a beef bullion cube to two cups of water and dump in a cup of those peas. And after 25 minutes after it starts boiling add eight pods of garden fresh tender okra and let that okra boil with the peas for another five minutes. Now that is some fine REDNECK groceries...great with corn pone but being on this heah diet I just eat that black eyed pea soup with half dozen soda crackers.

This diet is working...hell it always does if I can staty on it for any length of time. Lost 16 pounds of blubber since the 3rd of June but more important I have my blood sugar back under a 100...normal and the quack says damn good for a diabetic. And I have dodged the insulin bullet one more time.

Good Morning Blog World

I'd rather be fishing!


Yeah, I know...I am running late this morning...but then from the looks of my site meter so are a lot of people...usually double this many by this time of day. Hmmm. Anyway, I have been doing what I needed to do outside while it was still sorta kinda cool...if you can call 88F at eight in the morning cool...and no sea breeze. But I did gather enough black eyed peas and okra for lunch, a cantaloupe that had hid in the weeds, about a gallon of green bell peppers, and a hat full of cherry tomatoes...my produce bucket was full so I filled my lid. Sweetthing allowed I had to do something with those damn tomatoes so I reckon I'll be canning again this afternoon.
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I have an idea that it will not be long before there are a lot of Americans doing what these South Koreans are doing...swallowing some pride so they can earn some food to swallow. Look. I have always been in favor of unemployment insurance...but as a lot of other government programs it has been abused badly. White collar types lose their jobs and draw their rocking chair money...which is more than minimum wage...and in most states are allowed to refuse any job that is not commensurate with their education and experience level and still draw the benefits. And what the hell...I don't blame the people who refuse the blue collar work if they can draw unemployment. Kinda like a bum on welfare...why work if the government will support him at the level of standard of living he is willing to accept?

But now the governments are busted...both state and the Feds. And maybe...just maybe...the answer to the economic problem is to do what the S. Koreans are doing. GO TO FUCKING WORK! Produce something instead of shuffling paperwork. Maybe we have too gotdam many college graduates...me included....as the old adage goes...too gotdam many chiefs and not enough indians.
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Ain't these Chinese ragheads just charming? It could be that the Chinese have the right idea about how to control them...just shoot the sumbitches. I don't have a whole lot of use for the Chinese commies although I do have a lot of respect for the Chinese thrift and work ethic...American should work as hard and save as much, huh? But in any event I have NO respect for Islam and figure that the sumbitches deserve whatever the Chinese government gives them and it will probably be a lot of lead 'sammichs'.
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Sweetthing allows we gotta go to the village this morning and get the mail...what do ya wanna bet that she wants to make a side trip to Wally World after we get there? No problem...maybe they'll have some lead. And I reckon oughta get some more pint fruit jars. I plan on buying and jarring up some more peaches later this week.

Got a call from my primary care quack yesterday who set me up with an appointment for Thursday morning to talk about my blown out knee. Reckon he has the MRI results. I suspect next week I'll be talking to the bone cutter...but maybe not. The other day when I saw the primary care quack I let him talk me into shooting the knee full of cortisone...wasn't the first time and the stuff worked just like it always has...for two days. Hmmm, I just can't imagine getting a knee full of cortisone every three days from now on...for one thing it is like getting hit with a baseball bat. But I do plan on putting off any surgery until after I get back from Oklahoma this fall.

I suspect the mail will be up b y the time we get to the village...and if not it will be by the time sweetthing gets done brousing Wally World. Y'all come, heah?

Tejas?

BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! There are some real dreamers on the web writing about Tejas!

"Blood Kin"

I just finished reading an interesting book...a novel titled "Blood Kin" by Henry Chapman. Chapman writes of the early history of the Republic of Texas...some about the revolution that gained independence from Mexico but mostly about the wars with the marauding bands of Comanche.

Chapman has remained true to historical facts and has tried to be objective in his writing...telling both sides of the story...the Comanche were being pushed off their traditional homeland and the white settlers figured it was theirs for the taking.

The history of Texas is much like the history of the rest of this earth...the land belongs to whoever can take it and hold it. The Comanche had taken it from other native American people when they migrated south hundreds of years before the white man ever got to the Tejas...and the Texans took it from them. But the Comanche didn't go down without a fight....decades of fight in fact.

Interesting reading.

Rose Of Sharon

My trusty Kodak doesn't do justice to this beautiful bloom! I have been disappointed...and still am...with the Rose of Sharon plants I put in last year. This is only the fourth bloom from some twenty plants...and I was planning on a thick flowering hedge...maybe someday...

Monday morning after a three day weekend...don't ya know it is gonna be one hell of a productive day around the American business world today? I hope I never buy an American made automobile made on a Monday after a three day holiday weekend...bad enough to buy one made on a Wednesday...it does piss off the UAW to have to work on a Wednesday...fucks up both weekends...

I have not scanned the news this morning but did see the tail end of a video clip on Fox News earlier...something about the emperor being in Russia...I wonder if we could bribe the Russians to keep him? Naaaa...I doubt it...they have already kicked out or locked up their commies...they don't want one of ours.

Me and Little Sister, aka "DON'TGOTDAMIT" are by ourselves for a while this morning. Sweetthing had to go the lab to get some blood pulled...routine..time for her yearly physical. I was gonna take her but sweetthing allowed she could go by herself...I hope she and the Red Ram get back in one piece. Especially her...I can get another Red Ram but sweetthing is irreplaceable. Feels kinda funny when she is not here. For the past 16 or 17 years we have seldom been parted...see one of us you see us both. When we first set up sweetthing's half acre my back door neighbors asked me if we were newly weds...said they had never seen an old married couple walk in the yard holding hands. But that's us I reckon...never think much about it...we just naturally hold hands when we are walking somewhere...even down a sidewalk in town. I tease sweetthing that she just does it to keep me from falling down...she says, naaa...just to keep me from straying off somewhere.

The weather quacks allow it is gonna be hot with a chance of afternoon storms...yeah, what else is new? It is already hot and an afternoon storm will be welcomed.

I reckon I'll go wander around sweetthing half acre and check out the flora and say good morning to Tommy Treerat and the boys. They don't come out much during the day this time of year...can't say I blame them.Y'all come, heah?

UPDATE: Sweetthing just came walking in the door...she and the Red Ram survived a trip down highway US 19 one more time.

Just For Glee

Got this via e-mail today:


Thanks to Obama, luxury cars are soon to be a thing of the past.




They have always been beyond my means but I took out a Cadillac Escalade last week for a test drive, just to drive that sucker before they become extinct.

The salesman sat in the back seat describing the car and all it's wonderful options. The seats were of particular interest. He explained the seats directed warm air to your butt in the winter and directed cool air to your butt in the summer heat.

I stated the car must be a Republican car.

He asked why I thought it was a Republican car and I explained if it were a Democratic car the seats would blow smoke up your ass.

Summer Flora

I told sweetthing this morning that these had to be 'redneck roses' because they just keep on keeping on regardless of the heat and cold and rain or lack of. Sometimes they look like they are stressed out but then sometimes we rednecks look the same...hell some of us look like that ALL the time.






The heat is tough on most of the flowers this time of year. The ones in the shade will survive if they get water but are not as pretty as they are in the spring and fall months. There are twenty cherry tomato plants planted under the shade of the Live Oaks...some in pots and some I managed to get past the roots and put in the ground. I gather a pint or so a day from them...great taste but the peel is tough as shoe leather.








I dug down in this sweet potato patch and sur 'nuff there be some small sweet spuds. Maybe I'll have enough to harvest in a couple of months. Sweet potatoes are another one of those hot weather crops that take a lot of water...and one thing about central west coast Florida in the dawg days...we do get some water most days.





These sweet green bell peppers seem to thrive in the heat...but they do need a LOT of water.

Dawg Days Of Summer

The Dawg Days of Summer are heah and I reckon it will be the middle of Spetember before it cools down. It was decent out early this morning but when I took my 10am stroll around sweetthing's half acre it was already in the 90sF...even the birds and treerats have enough sense to stay out of this kinda heat and humidity. The plants that do well in the heat are of course doing pretty good. I am kinda disappointed with my peas and okra...figured I would get a better yield than I have been getting...but I have not fed the stuff in a month or so until this morning. I should be able to tell the difference is a week or so.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Yep, the fifth...the day after the fourth...and here I am once again WITHOUT a hangover. Damn I do remember those days when my celebration was beyond being exuberance and bordered on being insane. Sweetthing and I had a quiet independence day. I gathered enough blackeyed peas and okra for my lunch yesterday morning and then spent most of the day reading a book. We did have to drive into the village to purchase a new 'weedeater'...the old one went south. Sweetthing tried it out after we got home...but it was too damn hot to try out anything very much.

Last night was the usual Independence day celebration out here in redneck country. GOTDAM! From the thousands of dollars worth of fireworks that were sent up into the sky in my surrounding area one would think that these rednecks had never heard of Obama and his damn near 10 percent unemployment. I sat on the front porch and watched for over an hour and then decided to join the fun....I popped a few caps of #9 birdshot into the top of the live oaks...would have done more but that damn shotgun is rough on my bad shoulder. I thought about emptying a couple of magazines of .45acp into the ground...the .45 makes more noise than any of those firecrackerrs but then I got to thinking about what it cost for that ammo and how hard it is to find...decided to save it in case I needed to empty a mag into a 'two legged 'varmit'...

The fireworks just kept going off last night...I think some of those good ole boys wait until midnight to make noise because it was about that time when the sounds of a small war woke me up once again. I started to just get up and join in once again...but damn! Those .45acp are expensive.

It is gonna be a quiet day around sweetthing's half acre. I have already been up and outside...gathered a handful of peas and a pint or so of tomatoes and may go back out and get a dozen or more green bell peppers and freeze them....they are ready to pick and I don't want them to go to waste.

Once again I extend my thanks to all of you who have dropped by here over the past four years...who would have thunk it, huh? When I started this blog I barely knew how to open up a PC...and now I can even manage to get this one to do something without telling me I am gonna die from that fatal error I committed. Although blog traffic is down...always is in the summer I am looking forward to continuing this bit of shit and wit as long as I am able. Hope to see another 100,000 hits on the site meter next year.

Y'all come, heah?

400,000!

Visitor number 400,000 to this humble bit of shit and wit was none other than the world famous blogger CACTUS MARK! Cactus Mark you have won the contents of a fur lined shitpot and I will gladly send you your prize as soon as you send me an address! Thanks everyone for coming by and don't blow off no gotdam fingers with firecrackers tomight, heah?

Good Morning Blog World

and a Happy Independence Day to ya! Yeah, it is the Fourth of July...if I have counted right it's the 233th anniversary of the day the greatest political experiment in the history of human kind started. Our founding fathers had a radical idea...they believed that man had a god given right to freedom and that right included the right to govern themselves...as one might have said at the time..."we don't need no stinkin' king."

Was this great experiment successful? I reckon the jury is still out on the question. Our founders won their independence from a tyrannical English government only to flounder for several years trying to establish a government of their own. Finally in 1787 representatives from the the thirteen colonies met and held a constitutional convention. Some months later they signed a constitution that established a representative republic...The United States of America. But even then it was not over...the various states demanded even more protection from a tyrannical government and a guarantee of liberty...and although same was promised it was 1791 before the first 10 amendments...what we now call the "Bill of Rights" were ratified. And, the Federal Government had been steadily chopping at these rights ever since.

So, yeah, the jury is still out on whether the experiment to determine if mankind could govern itself. We have elected a Federal government (and in many states, state governments) who do not believe that we are capable of taking care of ourselves and need a strong government to dictate our lives. We have generations of a sub-culture who are totally dependent on government subsidies for their livelihood...as well as colleges who offer degrees in Sociology that in effect teach social workers how to insure that these people never rise above their station in society...see, if you want people to be dependent on government give them the means to be dependent on government. If you really want to help a poor man that's down...KICK HIM and give him the incentive to get up! Feeding him will keep him dependent on you.

Yeah. The jury is still out on whether mankind can handle freedom. Our founders, with some exceptions, had the idea that if given a chance most men would accept the responsibility for their lives and fortunes and didn't need government dictating their every move. But over the past nine decades the public has ceded the right to be free by electing socialist governments...governments that despise individual rights and tell us that we have to forfeit our individual rights to liberty for the public good. We have elected officials who think that "spreading the wealth" is best for the common good and teach that "it takes a village to raise a child". We have a elected a president that not only by his actions shows that he despises individual liberty...he has told us that we are wrong to 'cling to our guns and religion'.

Yeah, the jury is still out on the fate of our republic. It has been written that at the close of the constitutional convention a woman approached Benjamin Franklin and asked, "What kind of government did you give us?" And Franklin replied..."A republic. If you can keep it."

Will we keep it? Do we have the courage of our founders who risked life and fortune for liberty and the freedom to pursue their goals without the interference of a tyrannical government? Or, will we continue to trade out freedom for bread and circuses.

In conclusion I do celebrate this day today with a heavy heart and have been doing so for some years now because every year I have seen some more of my freedom disappear in the name of the common good. And every year I think that it might be the last year of the republic...and if our ideas about freedom do not change soon any celebration of Independence Day will be sheer hypocrisy unless it is celebrated as a day of mourning for the end of a great experiment...one that has shining possibilities but failed because of the greed of those who think that looting those who produce and sharing that wealth with those who do not is better for the common good than freedom for all.

On a lighter note the site meter on this bit of shit and wit should turn the 400,000 mark sometime today. My thanks to each of you who have dropped by over the last four years and especially to those of you who make a comment and/or drop me an e-mail...it makes it all worthwhile. But what makes it most worthwhile are the many many friends that I have from this site...some that I correspond with now often a one or two almost daily. Thanks again my friends...and y'all come back now, heah?

Canned Stuff

Yesterday I managed to put up seven more jars of tomatoes and seven of peaches. This keeps up I'm gonna have to build me a root cellar! I hope to put up at least another 24 pints of black eyed peas and if my fall beans produce at least that many pints of pole beans. I am also considering putting in a bed of yellow wax beans...I like them nearly as well as I like the Kentucky Wonder Pole beans. I gathered a pint of Cherry Tomatoes this morning after I made hay. The vines in the full sun have quit producing but I have twenty of the cherry variety under the live oaks where they get just enough filtered sun to keep blooming and ripening. Good tasting 'maters' but the skin on them is as tough as shoe leather...hell, I bet I could make a belt out of those skins if I knew how to sew them together. Also would make a good road surface...which is an idea...I need a good drive way...

Site Meter

The site meter is approaching the 400,000 mark...thanks to you who reguslarly come by this bit of shit and wit and about 200,000 people googling for 14 year old Indian Virgins and how to cook Amber Jack. DAMN! I can understand why they might be some who want to know about 14 year old Indian virgins but who in their right fuckin' mind wants to cook Amber Jack?

Anyway, the meter should roll over the 400,000 mark sometime tomorrow or early SUnday Morning. The blog traffic is down considerably from what it was back in the winter but I am still amazed that there is that many people in the world that will come by to see what an old fat redneck ex-centric has to say everyday. 400,000 hits in four years is not even close to being among the tall dawgs but I reckon it does make me a little pup following the pack. Thanks all, your comments and e-mails make it all worthwhile.

Good Morning Blog World

When I was a lad in grammer school they used to teach fables...I know some of you remember about the assholes who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs? Yep...that's the dim-a-crits in California. They have raised taxes rather than controlling their budget to the point the state is bankrupt...and the terminator is terminating their attempts to tax their way out of their fuck up. BAWAHAHAHAHAHA By the way...if you are a vendor to the California 'guvmit' remember that age old advise....don't take no wooden nickels!

There is a couple of ways to put an immediate halt to illegal immigration but what the Obama people are doing is not one of them. One thing that will have to be done is put some teeth in the immigration laws. And that means that those who hire illegal immigrants or even provide them with social services are as guilty of committing an immigration crime as the immigrant. LOCK THE SUMBITCHES UP! Then it will not be long before there is a mass migration out of the country...all headed south. Be a boom on gasoline sales in the border states for a month or so...
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I gotta go get some pushaline for my tractor and push mower and then try to find the will power to cut the grass...I was looking out the window at it a few minutes ago and though about just calling a hay maker...another four or five days and he could put up a couple of those round bales. I may windrow and rake it myself and put it in a hay pile to feed the mules I'm gonna have to buy for transportation once this cap and trade shit passes...I wonder what mule farts are gonna cost me? Hope it is cheaper than gasoline...

I shall return...y'all come, heah? I had rather be fishing.

Mess

Do ya want to know how to make a REAL MESS! Sweetthing allows I shoulda got a picture. See, all ya gotta do is put a couple of gallons of sliced peaches in a two gallon stock pot with a bag of Splenda...turn the fire on, put the lid on, and go off and leave it for just FIVE FUCKING MINUTES! I gotta a quart of peach syrup on the stove top...down in the flash pans, and on the floor. Five minutes was all it took for at least two hours worth of cleaning up the mess. I hope them damn peaches are good....

DAMN

Now, ain't THIS just Charmin'??

"The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent, the Labor Department reported on Thursday."

And Emperor Obama allows that his stimulus package is working? GOOD GAWD GIRTY WHAT A GASH! Before the dim-a-crits took congress two and a half years ago this country has a fairly stable economy and unemployment was less than six percent and the dim-a-crits were blaming Bush for a bad economy. Who are they blaming now? Let me explain something to any of you left wingers who happen to stumble on this bit of shit and wit: when your president promises to spread the wealth why do you think that people who have wealth will just roll over and give it to him to spread? Business is in business to make money and every time there is a new regulation or tax hike it cuts into the profit margin. Business either has to raise prices to compensate or else lock 'er up and go somewhere else where it is conducive to do business. When business shuts the doors jobs are lost and it is a vicious downward spiral to a fucking depression....or worse when the government starts spending money that it does not have to spend we wind up with no jobs and raging inflation.

If you are not growing a victory garden and stockpiling precious metal I would advise you to do so. And you had best have some contingency plans for survival when the shit hits the fan.

Flora report

Just came in from checking the flora. The rain has everything looking good but sure need a couple of days of sunshine. The gotdam pole beans ain't got no sense...what was left of the vines on the wire trellis are blooming again! I doubt they will make once the sun hits them again but you have to give them credit for trying, huh? Lots of small black eyed peas but they need a few days of sun on them. Even the cherry tomatoes have slowed down..only got a pint of them this morning...and now I have over a gallon to do something with today. I am thinking about just boiling them down and straining the pulp and juice from the skin and core for canning. Maybe jar up in pints with some hot peppers and garlic. Make a good start for a winter day soup.

The grass and weeds are knee high but I don't like to mow when everything is so wet. For one thing it clogs up the mower and for another the sand is so soft that a lot of grass gets pulled up. If it was weeds getting pulled I'd be out there in the rain!

Good Morning Blog World

Heh...Florida weather...either too damn hot, too damn cold, too dry or flooding. But they don't be no state income tax and it don't snow in January. And I had rather be fishing.

Dear Guy,
A Flood Watch remains in effect through the evening hours. We will see another day with widespread showers and storms. Many areas will pick up another 1-3 inches of rain, but isolated spots could see even more! Our rain chance is 60% with highs in the mid-upper 80s. The rain will slowly taper off tonight with lows in the mid-upper 70s.

We lower the rain chance to 50% for Friday, and it looks like July 4th will be a more "typical" summer day. more...

Sincerely,
Meteorologist Leigh Spann


Looks like it is about to start raining this morning. I reckon I'll just have to get wet because I have an appointment for an MRI on my left knee this morning. I don't look forward to it...that gotdam table is just wide enough for me to lie down on and there is no where to put my arms except above my head...they don't make them damn things for men what are two ax handles across the shoulders.

The peaches we have left from yesterday got soft over night and I reckon when I get back from the MRI place we'll do something with them. Peach reserves sounds good and a damn sight easier than pickling. I am not up to doing another 25 pounds though so reckon I'll wait a couple of days before buying more.

I have not looked over the news this morning although I did catch a bit of Fox Cable news this morning. Big push in Afghanistan they say...I hope they TAKE NO PRISONERS! Kill the sumbitches and help them along to their paradise.

I have some chores to do this morning before I have to go the the diagnostic center so I have bst get around, huh. Y'all come back, heah?

Done For The Day

This summer is the first time ever I have done any caning by myself...when I was a lad I helped my Mother when she could catch me before I slipped off for the woods with my rifle...and she had to get up early to do that. I had forgot that this canning is a four letter word..W O R K !! My back hurts.

But we are done for the day...





Still have these to do something with after they get a bit softer..and they ripen fast so it means doing it tomorrow probably. I bought some of that Sur-Jel stuff and may just cook these down with Splenda and make some peach jam or preserves...I do like peaches.

Pickled Peaches and a MRI

Got the MRI done on my right knee this afternoon and I have to go back in the morning at 9:30 to get the left one done..that gotdam table is too narrow and hard for me to lie on long enough to do both on the same day...my old back won't take it.

When we left the MRI place we went back to super Wally World and got another 27 pounds of peaches...that buck a pound is half price of every one else vending them here. When we got home I seperated out the ones that needed another day to ripen and we peeled and canned the rest...so far I have seven quarts of peaches pickled and three more in the canner right now along with four pints of peaches canned in well water and Splenda. I have enough I think to put up another dozen pints canned in water and Splenda.

These are BIG peaches to be clings...they have to be cut because they will not fit in the small mouth quart jars I had. Should have bough a case of largre mouth quarts I reckon...might do that tomorrow as well as another 25 pounds or so of fruit..did I tel ya I like peaches?

Good Morning Blog World

The commies of the earth are flocking together to denounce the military ouster of a fellow commie in Honduras who was trying to destroy his countries constitution. Is it any wonder that our Emperor Obama has jumped to the commie bastards defense? Obama is planing on doing the same thing...he already has the ballot boxes rigged and all he needs to do now is rig the Supreme Court and he can be Emperor for life...that is if he can convince all of us rednecks to lay down our guns. Heh.

One would think that the left wing sumbitches would learn that extorting from those who earn it to support those who don't will eventually bankrupt a government. But instead of learning a lesson in finance the commie bastards want to legally extort more from the producers. It is a wonder to me why anyone works anymore....fuck it...the only way to beat the sumbitches is to join them. Quit work and yell for the 'guvmit' to support you. heh. I still think the best answer for the problem in California is to try to get China to accept it in return for the USA currency and paper it holds. Hell, California is already a communist state and should fit right in with Chinese control...

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Sweetthing and I have a busy day planned...maybe too damn busy. I have an appointment with my primary care quack at 0900...supposed to be a routine diabetic follow up thing but I am gonna get him to set me up for a MRI on my blown out knee. (Either I gotta get this damn knee fixed or else the quack is gonna have to give me something better than darvocet.) Sweetthing says she has to go the the public library and I have to make a trip to my credit union to take care of some 'biznis' and then I want to go by the local Wally World to pick up some fruit jars and Public Grocery Store to get some cinnamon sticks and a product known as Fruit Fresh...or Fresh Fruit...or sumthin like that...stuff used to can peaches.

See, yesterday I bought a shit load of peaches and I am gonna start caning this afternoon. I plan to put up a dozen pints of peaches canned with water and Splenda and pickle about the same...and if the price on peaches stays down I may do the same thing again tomorrow and the next day...oh? I didn't tell you that I like peaches? Hmmmm Yep...may even get me some Sur-Jel stuff and make some peach Jam or preserves. I am getting into this canning thing...ain't gonna save a dime this year because of the cost of the jars and such....but those jars are reusable and next year should see the grocery bill go down. And, if the economy tanks as I figure it is gong to we will have food in the house along with enough fire power to protect it.

This rabbit food diet I have been on for the past month has me hungry enough to eat the south end out of a north bound mule. I have lost some blubber...but I am ne of those types who can gain or lose three pounds over night...yesterday morning I was at 247.2 and this morning 249.8...damn. maybe sweetthing is right...I am full of shit and just need to sit on the porcelain throne for a while...

But to do any good there I am gonna have to take my morning hobble around sweetthing's half acre firt. I reckon I'll take my pail and pocket knife and cut some okra and then look at the 'mater' patch...always a quart or so of Cherry Tomatoes ready to gather. Should have a mess of blackeyed peas in another day or two and there are a couple of canteloupes turning yellow...y'all come back, heah?