The Kentucky Wonder beans are canned, the garlic dried and put up, the potatoes are keeping well, and the tomatoes are ready for canning.
This leaves me with the okra and what a job it has turned into. I am not one to waste the bounty of the garden I have worked so hard to have what with the drought and hot weather, so the okra must not be wasted. It has become somewhat comical, though, when I go up to a neighbor’s house with a bag of the fresh okra to give away. They have got to where they won’t answer the door. I guess they are as tired of the okra as I am. I have pickled it, stewed it, fried it, boiled it, and have taken to eating it raw if it is small and tender. I wish it would stop bearing, but it won’t. You can literally see it grow. Like any weed, it loves chicken manure. If anyone wants a mess, they can come and get it, please.
Ken Vickers
Swing low, sweet crookneck
I heard Herman Caine on TV the other day outlining his plan to set the government aright. He would not touch Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or the military, but he would slash all the rest. I guess he meant all $382.53 cents of what is left.
Then there is the new Georgia Immigration law and our illustrious Governor, Nathan Deal. He says we need to get rid of all the illegals and hire parolees and probationers in their place. Obviously the man is daft. No one in their right mind would want to hire people who, number one, do not know how to work, and, number two, don’t want to work. One farmer tried this but as soon as the sun got up, the parolees walked out of the field saying they didn’t know squash grew that low to the ground.
I can see it now in the grocery store; crook neck squash $2.00 apiece, cucumbers $3.00 apiece. This is because the ACLU will get involved and make the farmer pay union scale wages and where an illegal would pick 100 boxes a day, the parolees will pick three.
If I were Governor, I would tell our totally dysfunctional Federal government to go to hell and let us as Georgians do the right thing, the common sense thing and I would stop letting that bunch around Atlanta run the show. I’ll bet the Senators and Representatives of Cobb and Fulton Counties never worked a day in the onion fields and they do not care if the crops rot in the sun! They don’t have enough sense to know that’s what will happen, and furthermore, they don’t care. That’s the “Other Georgia’s” problem in their mind and obviously we don’t count. It might be time for us “Other Georgians” to consider seceding, from just below Macon to the Florida line, and run our own show.
I say give the illegals a Georgia Visa, get their fingerprints, photograph, do a background check, and if they have not been in trouble with the law, let them come out of the shadows and live among us as human beings and be able to get a driver’s license, insurance, and open a bank account so they don’t have to carry all their money on them and be a target for homegrown future parolees.
No, do not give citizenship or welfare and food stamps but treat them as human beings because they are God’s children, and besides, we gave them implied permission to be here by not stopping them from coming in the first place. It is called an implied contract in the real estate business, and an implied contract is a legal contract in the eyes of the law,
I don’t how state Senator Goggans and my cousin, Representative Chuck Sim, voted on this issue.
I’m afraid to look.
Then there is the new Georgia Immigration law and our illustrious Governor, Nathan Deal. He says we need to get rid of all the illegals and hire parolees and probationers in their place. Obviously the man is daft. No one in their right mind would want to hire people who, number one, do not know how to work, and, number two, don’t want to work. One farmer tried this but as soon as the sun got up, the parolees walked out of the field saying they didn’t know squash grew that low to the ground.
I can see it now in the grocery store; crook neck squash $2.00 apiece, cucumbers $3.00 apiece. This is because the ACLU will get involved and make the farmer pay union scale wages and where an illegal would pick 100 boxes a day, the parolees will pick three.
If I were Governor, I would tell our totally dysfunctional Federal government to go to hell and let us as Georgians do the right thing, the common sense thing and I would stop letting that bunch around Atlanta run the show. I’ll bet the Senators and Representatives of Cobb and Fulton Counties never worked a day in the onion fields and they do not care if the crops rot in the sun! They don’t have enough sense to know that’s what will happen, and furthermore, they don’t care. That’s the “Other Georgia’s” problem in their mind and obviously we don’t count. It might be time for us “Other Georgians” to consider seceding, from just below Macon to the Florida line, and run our own show.
I say give the illegals a Georgia Visa, get their fingerprints, photograph, do a background check, and if they have not been in trouble with the law, let them come out of the shadows and live among us as human beings and be able to get a driver’s license, insurance, and open a bank account so they don’t have to carry all their money on them and be a target for homegrown future parolees.
No, do not give citizenship or welfare and food stamps but treat them as human beings because they are God’s children, and besides, we gave them implied permission to be here by not stopping them from coming in the first place. It is called an implied contract in the real estate business, and an implied contract is a legal contract in the eyes of the law,
I don’t how state Senator Goggans and my cousin, Representative Chuck Sim, voted on this issue.
I’m afraid to look.
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Brandi
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07/23/11 at 03:15 PM
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You may very well be the smartest man in the universe. Ken for President!