Also, I made a cake for a lady who was throwing a "Great Grandma shower" for a friend. I made a quilt cake for her. I hope she had a wonderful party.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Look what I picked from my garden...
I started picking green beans LAST weekend. Canned 7 pints last weekend and 8 pints this weekend. Me and the kids were standing around the counter breaking our bowl of green beans and it made me laugh as I recalled memories of canning beans when I was a kid. I told CJ I'm glad I get a bowl or two at a time because that's about all I can get canned in a day by myself, but when I was a kid if you didn't have four or five 5-gallon buckets full of beans sitting around your chair you weren't very busy that day. At least that's the way I remember it. Grandma up before the roosters picking them, mom washing jars, sometimes Aunt Esta or Aunt Jeanne would be there to help too. For hours and hours, until you didn't want to look at another bean. I wonder if that's really the way it was or if that's my memory of it because I was so young and it seemed like such a huge amount. The only reason why I question my memory is because I always remember making a double batch of sugar cookies to be such a HUGE deal - massive bowl, stir so much your arm hurt, takes all day to roll them out and bake them there were so many. Today I can bake a double batch of sugar cookies in about an hour and a half. hehe.
Also, I made a cake for a lady who was throwing a "Great Grandma shower" for a friend. I made a quilt cake for her. I hope she had a wonderful party.
Also, I made a cake for a lady who was throwing a "Great Grandma shower" for a friend. I made a quilt cake for her. I hope she had a wonderful party.
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8 comments:
good times! the cake is awesome!!
Awwww your childhood summer memories are so cool. Be sure to include this story when you crop those pictures!
The cake is pretty darn impressive too! WOW!
love the cake!!! i so want to grow something...anything!!!
You are making memories for your kids too! They look like they are having so much fun with green beans. LOL
Hey, Staci!
Your green bean canning memories are correct...hours, hours, and hours, then nightmares of beans for weeks after! :-) Grandma Rosie is here, and she confirms this! I have never canned in my own home. My kids are missing out on this great tradition...I'm proud of you!
Your cake is beautiful. Again, I am so impressed! You rock!
love & hugs to you & your sweet family!
Oh wow, I have those memories too. It was shelling peas and shucking corn and canning tomatoes. It is amazing how my Grandparents always had such an awesome garden and ate everything, or canned or freezed it, or they gave it away. The kids and I have wanted to try this, maybe next year! Some fresh green beans sure do sound yummy. wink wink
That's my childhood memory, too. Up early each morning to help Granny in the garden pick the vegetable or hoe the weeds. When we were done with that we set off on our spray buggies to hoe in the cotton fields. After lunch we sat and shucked corn or snapped beans/peas, in the shade. Once it cooled off, we were back out in the field. Of course once we were big enough to run the tractor, there was no mid-day break.
Ahhh, thanks for the memories!!!
BTW... love the cake!!!
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