maters

 

Not quite time yet for our maters this summer yet but...........

Last summer

it was time for one of my favorites.....fried green "maters"!

Lets go PICK 'EM!

wash, slice, dredge in cornmeal, and fry in a blistering hot skillet!!!

First fried green maters of the summer.........yum!!

MERCY.....I could eat these every single day! Was raised on 'em!

Breakfast, dinner, or supper, they go with everything! LOL

Hope your week has started off great and you're happy and healthy!

Saturday in the Park

 "Saturday in the Park, I think it was the 4th of July"

   ...................Chicago 1972

Anyone else remember this old hit song? I remember it on the radio all that summer, I think I had the 45. Remember 45's?! LOL

Our very first 4th of July!

"we had fun!"

Peggie

Betsie
my new pin:

a hot, HOT day and Callie still walked the farm with us!

John Sloane Country Calendar

a big bowl of tater peels:

turns into this.....

a big boiling kettle of "taters"

4th of July calls for tater salad!

Dukes, of course.....southern ladies wouldn't use anything else. ha ha LOL

and plenty of diced up eggs, many thanks to our lovely laying ladies

Finally, the  finished product:

I made deviled eggs too, they are not too photogenic this time......but they sure tasted good! LOL

Everything doused heavy on the pepper, paprika, and the parsley we've grown ourselves.

The ladies enjoying the 4th of July too:

sure helps them beat the heat. Ours are not ready to harvest yet......so buying at the market until they are ready

Come take a walk around with us!

I have only TWO Old Maid blooms!! ha ha LOL. Don't know what happened, we have re-seeded and see what comes up this time. LOL

my miniature red roses are blooming again:

one of our beautiful  fluffy hens:

the Magnolias around the area are pretty much finished by now.......only a few still hanging on

below: harvesting more parsley

Hope your 4th of July weekend was safe and fun!

every day country

 

MERRY MERRY JULY, Y'ALL!!

Hot Summertime has arrived, and the blue skies are so pretty!

our first bright and happy sunflower has arrived!

and our four o'clocks are in full bloom

June was pretty busy here, so July has kind of snuck up on me.

I was up late last night processing green beans to freeze. LOL

And I have ALOT more onions to harvest and process, these are just the first two days ago.

enjoyed them on cheeseburgers, they were so good!

We also harvested ALOT of parsley, our first year for this.

....and I made bean sprouts!

Did you see the beautiful Strawberry Moon?

I could've gazed at that all night long.......

Some of you leave me such sweet and kind comments about me dressed up or dressing up just like a Southern Lady. And I thank you for those!

But what you see are pictures we usually make on Sundays, in our "Sunday Best" or as my Ma-Maw called it "your Sunday go to meeting" outfit. LOL

This is more like the "daily me". ha ha LOL

I'm pretty much in old pants and with either boots on or long tall socks, (or BOTH! lol)  with the loose pants tucked IN, to keep from being bitten by the various bugs and/or other critters.

 See how sloppy I look? LOL. Big old wrinkled but comfortable shirt for gardening and taking care of chickens/animals, sometimes a dirty chore. That big old blue farm shirt is my favorite everyday shirt. 

And of course, we like everything pure cotton as much as we can in the Spring and summer here as it gets so hot and real cotton breathes better.

No, I'm not after a predator right here, it's just a garden tool I got for my birthday last year. LOL

and a fond goodbye to Closer magazine:

They have ceased publishing.

I've read this little supermarket check-out magazine since about 2005 or so and enjoyed it alot the first years.

 It used to be full of stories of the movies and actors back in the old days.

 It was about Judy Garland, Shirley Jones, Cary Grant, Ann Margaret, Elvis,  Elizabeth Taylor, Sally Field, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews,  Gregory Peck, Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Natalie Wood, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Eden, Patricia Neal, Farrah Fawcett, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Burt Reynolds, Barbara Streisand, Tony Curtis etc. 

Stories about them, their movies, their lives, their homes and children and hobbies.

 In the past two years, it started to feature a large percentage of the movies and celebrities from present day, which I have no interest in reading about, so I was going to let my subscription lapse anyway.

Farewell, Closer!

and also received word from the publisher that this magazine is stopping issues as well. Below was the last issue:

Been reading this one since 1989!

I really enjoyed this little monthly magazine all those years, until the last year they totally changed the format and articles and I just wasn't going to re-new my subscription to this one either. It just changed too much.

Magazines just aren't selling anymore, and alot of people enjoy reading them online, but I will always prefer finding my glossy new magazines in the  mailbox at the end of each month, and looking forward to sitting down and reading them. 

I like the option of clipping coupons, tearing out pages of pictures I like, flipping through the articles. Guess I'm "old fashioned" that way. 

I remember old magazines like Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Glamour, McCall's (does anyone remember the Betsy McCall paper dolls each issue?----oh, how I loved those!), Family Circle, and others that are now just a memory.

Does anyone but me subscribe to old fashioned magazines anymore?  LOL

Hope your July has arrived nicely and you are staying cool in this heat wave.

Goodness, it's hot here. LOL