Memories

Not having a job to go will give you plenty of time to think...about past and present. Today I was thinking of when I was growing up...summer time then was getting up early and working in the vegetable garden and helping out with inside chores when the early morning garden chores were done. I`m like my daddy in that I loved to be in the garden. Mama would can all summer long.. tomatoes, corn, green beans, butter beans , pickles..anything daddy took a notion to plant would wind up in a jar by the end of summer.
Ahhh those meals mama use to cook for us....I can taste them now. When I was little I took it all for granted but now I know that those were the best meals I`ll ever have because mama cooked them for the family she loved so much. It really does make a difference in how food tastes , when the person cooking loves you. Sure beats someone that hates you putting arsenic in your food..hehehe.
Mama put love into it. Thats her favorite thing to do anyway, she cooks, and cooks and cooks. She use to do fried green tomatoes that I simply loved and still do to this day (but I can`t do them like her), and she`d make the best cornbread in an iron skillet that was to die for. Hot out of the oven with butter smeared on a piece of it is so heavenly. She also can do fried apple-jack pies that you just don`t know when to stop eating. My uncle ( her brother) can eat them all most as fast as she can make them....and of all things he never gains a pound either. I can look at them and feel my thighs stretching. She`d fry potatoes with onion in them and pinto beans and steamed cabbage combined with that wonderful cornbread and you`d be in food heaven.We`d make homemade ice cream in one of those old crank freezors..one of us kids would sit on it and the rest of would take turns cranking that thing till it was frozzen stiff...or we`d have ice cold watermelon that daddy had put in the spring water down at the creek to get cold...juice running down your little arms and making streaks down your belly from playing without a shirt on all day and you`re dusty and dirty...oh my I think I`d better go drink a Slim-Fast before I do something that I`ll regret.
This is what being on a DIET does to you!!!!
God bless