Jul
24
2008
Green Beans & My Goofy Kid
With the rising costs of gas, food, etc., etc., etc. I decided this year would definitely be a good year to freeze veggies from the garden. Starting off the season with green beans I’ve already frozen 14 gallon size freezer bags of green beans. My Dad notoriously plants a huge garden every year growing green beans, peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet corn and I’m sure I’m forgetting something. On my second trip to the garden Chris and Cade went along. Remember that Chris is a southern California native and has never even stepped foot in a garden let alone picked a vegetable in his life. It was quite interesting if not slightly amusing to watch and I’m sure next time he’ll remember to not pick the ones covered in bug bites. Hey, it’s a learning process, everyone has to start somewhere. The following are photos from the trip from our house to my parents, some field pictures and a few thrown in of Cade being the goof that he is. He’s never been allowed to ride in the back of a truck, but I decided to ride with him in the back. Our roads are all very desolate country roads without traffic and I don’t think I’ve ever met a true country kid that hasn’t been in the back of a pickup truck or on a tractor sometime in their lifetime.
On the way, I just love big round hay bales, I think they look cool.
Soy beans may be one of the only few good crops some of these farmers have this year with all the flood damage. Soy beans can be planted much later than corn and a lot of the farmers that had corn planted lost their entire fields but were able to get in some soy beans if all their topsoil didn’t get washed away.
Cade actually loves the camera and is always wanting his photo taken.
My Dad loves his gardens, be it veggies or hostas. He has over 300 different varieties of hostas in this garden.
Chris learning all about picking beans. Also learning how itchy you become wearing shorts in the garden.
Again – Chris picking beans, his bucket didn’t fill up quite as fast as mine. You can see a few rows of sweet corn behind him and that’s where the garden ends. Beyond that is soy beans, unfortunately this year was a soy bean year for the fields in our family, it would have been a good year for corn since the fields here didn’t get flood damage, but alas there will be an over-abundant supply of beans and dwindling supplies of field corn.
Cade’s first ride in the back of the pickup, and what do you know, there’s a field of corn behind him – very lucky farmer, he’ll probably making a killing off that corn this year.
I’m sure he saw something amusing
This is what he always wants to do when I point the camera his way – make faces
Entering the forestry. This road is called Big Hurricane with good reason, it’s very twisty turny and also very steep
Another shot of Big Hurricane
I’m beginning to think that allowing Cade to ride in the back of the truck wasn’t such a good idea, now he’s begging to ride that way all the time. He doesn’t understand the concept of timeliness. I’ve explained that we would be late all the time traveling at 30-40mph everywhere we go. I’ve also told him that he must still ride in his booster seat or Mommy could get into trouble with the policemen.
