Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the Beans

If you know that song, phrase and/or movie -
You have a great amount of culture under your belt.

We have a new phase of Livin' the Happy Life - BEANS. We have been blessed by a truly HUGE crop of green beans. Beautiful slim, green beans. We canned a whole slew of "Dilly Beans" and would love to can some jars of just plain ole green beans - but the gasket on the pressure canner is old and we are afraid to risk poisoning the whole family with some badly canned beans. So - we wait, blanch and freeze.
A fabulous time was had while picking bean yesterday. We sang, "Oh, where have you BEAN, Billy Boy, Billy Boy", should have sung "I've BEAN workin' on the Railroad", "It's BEAN a Long, Long Time", "It's not Easy BEAN Green". But, the real fun beangan (sorry, I can not help it) when we began to process the beans. We washed them and then took the tails off of them. I walked through where the kids were and my son had a bean dangling from his lips and in his best Edward G. Robinson voice says "So, you wanna know about the Hope Diamond, Ehhh?" He is so funny. Then, I walk through and see this---

What an imaginative kid. Pedro, put on his best serape and sombrero. I must say the kids really did have a good time pickin', singin' and prepin'.

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