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Gender: Female
Status: Widowed
Location:
MUNFORD, Alabama
United States
School:
St. Helena High, All the California State Colleges, BA Accounting UC Berkeley, Post Graduate studies Public Personnel Administration Auburn University
Work:
15 or 20 varied and interesting jobs to make a living, stay in school, and feed my children. 17 years at Sebastiani Vineyards counting grapes. 17 years at City of Anniston counting employees
Hometown(s):
Born in Oakland Ca., grammar school years in the bay area, then across Northern California from Pt. Reyes to Eureka and Sacramento to Stockton, but mostly in Sonoma and Napa valley's. 1980 relocated to the slow and peaceful pace of the Alabama woods
Quote:
We make choices and choose how we want to live our lives. Some of the choices are great some sad, but they are all ours

About Me

I am a a retired paper pusher or make that a retired number cruncher. I live in the woods of Alabama and love my gardens and animals. Vegetable gardening is a challenge (it is me the draught and the weeds) but the rewards are great. Today food prices make me very popular with my neighbors, no longer do they hide when they see me coming with my bumper crop of okra and squash. Now my friends are asking when will the tomatoes and beans be ready for for picking and I even have volunteers to help with the freezing and canning. Of course a dozen large blueberry bushes are a real garden magnet. All in all gardening is a cheap and friendly social outlet

Interests:
My hobbies are gardening, sewing and quilting, reading, collecting and displaying yard, tree dressing. I will travel wherever and whenever providing all is in order at the home front. I love my pets, my 3 dogs and 3 cats greet me like a returning hero and 40 bantam chickens come on the run when they see me approaching their pen with with a bucket of weeds or produce trimmings. As far as sports go, I am a NASCAR fan and since Ricky Craven has retired it is my duty to cheer for Ryan Newman with the TV sound on high. I used to be pleased when Ricky finished better than his number 23 and now I am filled with pride when Ryan finishes better than 12th. I think I will stay away from drivers with single digit numbers, just to stressful.

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Today's harvest of yellow crook neck squash, zucchini, okra, bread and butter corn, blueberries and green tomatoes will get me up early tomorrow.  The squash, okra and corn I will prepare and freeze.  The blueberries are simmering in the juice pot and will strain/drip overnight for Christmas gift jelly.  The green tomatoes will join yesterday's jalapeno pepper harvest and some farmer's market carrots  in an old fashion vinegar pepper sauce, a must for enjoying the winter greens. 

I love stocking my larder almost as much as I enjoy summer meals of fresh foods.  Fresh summer vegetables tend to make a vegan out of me,  much to my chickens' relief.  I grow and harvest enough for several of my children's and their children's households.   Still there is an over abundance for friends and I have been know to sneak down to a few of our local churches, on Saturday night, and leave large boxes of orphaned zucchini of the front steps (manna from heaven). 

It is easy to justify the time and labor or gardening when reading the grocery store ads.  I think we all agree that prices have shot up out of site.  I listen to the news and hear that the increases are due to higher fuel costs, I can't figure out  how doubling the fuel cost of a 50,000 pound load of can equate to a 30 to 40 percent retail price increase of all 50,000 pounds.  My favorite raw peanuts have shot up from $1.40 a pound to $1.94 a pound.  My figuring comes up with an increase of  $27,500. a load and Geogia is only 200 away.  Granted the increase is spread around to the farmer, wholesaler, and processor, but it still buys a lot of diesel fuel.  Oh my, I am off on a tangent, once an accountant always an accountant. 

I do sell  "you pick" blueberries for a dollar a quart, I don't know who pays $4.50  at the grocery store for a half pint but I wish they would stop by my place.

 

 

Added: June 30, 2008
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Wishing you a wonderful week....Jen
Posted: December 15, 2008 8:47PM EST
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Have A wonderful Weekend My Friend !
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