Oh Peas!!!!

Hello friends!

Anderson and I have been having some quite late days here lately. Adam is having to work a later shift and so he doesn't get home until around 7. In the next city over, Dalworington Gardens there is a lot of farmland. Which is strange because we live in the Metroplex, which is a complete urban sprawl(yay for using terms learned in my many college Geography courses:) We noticed a farm where they had a fall crop of purple hull peas.Now, I am from the deep South and LOVE field peas! So, of course, A and I stopped. When I walked up to the lady and asked her if she had any already picked peas(and could they just happen to be shelled too) she laughed. Anderson and I picked up our basket and away we went to the pea field. Or is it pea patch?Anderson did SO good and was such a big helper to me. He would run and get the peas that Adam and I had picked and throw them into the basket. He did such a good job! And, there is just something about being outside and on a farm-like setting that just makes a boy's heart happy. And his momma's too:)

They had a corn maze, we didn't do it. But it looked pretty cool. And we also got 4 onions and 4 hot peppers and 1 pound of peas for.....$2.90. Can you believe that? We even went back today to get more to put up.
Now, I dread shelling, washing and blanching of the peas. That was always the not so fun part. But what great fun it was going to pick peas!

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On October 24, my Grandmother Ivey would have been 94. I'm so glad that I took Anderson to see her right before she died. She held him for 2 hours and he didn't make a peep. She was in heaven holding that baby boy!