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Archive for June, 2009

Peaches in a Jam

This is peach season in South Carolina and Georgia. Even though Georgia is called the Peach State, South Carolina produces more. And we live right down the road from the peach capitol, Edgefield County, the home of the late Strom Thurmond, in fact, his son, Strom, Jr., was the state’s top [...]

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Tomatoes

Our tomato plants are huge.  I mean taller than Bruce who is over 6 feet.  We’ve had to stake them even though they’re in cages — stake them inside the cages because they’re growing so well.  Boy — what a problem to have!
The plants are loaded with ones turning red, lots of green ones, and [...]

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A Week Away

For us, a week away from home was spent between the north Georgia mountains where we slept snug in our sleeping bags and along the Atlantic Ocean coastline of southern South Carolina where we slept on top of our sleeping bags under a sheet. The music of the Bluegrass festival was great; the [...]

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PEWS

This is what our priest defines as “people enduring wooden seats”.  And we did, indeed, endure the equivalent to them several weeks ago.
I already mentioned that we find unusual things to do on Saturdays.  A couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of our trip to north Georgia and a Bluegrass Festival, we drove over to [...]

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