Lois Chitwood
Today I want to give a great big thank you to all the gardeners/farmers in our area. It doesn’t matter if you grow for the masses or if you are a home gardener who loves the dirt and enjoys helping your family, friends, and neighbors who are not so gifted at growing anything edible, that is.
What a wonderful place it is that K.C. and I are blessed to live in these North Georgia Mountains. We have family, friends, and neighbors that are so willing and happy to share with us from their bounty of fresh garden vegetables. Upon a recent visit to the post office K.C. came home with a bag full of cucumbers from an acquaintance he saw while there; the man said he overplanted and he just wanted to share. Only in our wonderful South does that happen folks.
Some of our fine gardeners grow especially so that they can sell the veggies to others that just don’t have a green thumb. I’m just as thankful to those, too, and salute them also. I’m sure the pay they get comes nowhere near to repaying them for all the cost and also the sweat equity that has gone into their labor on these hot sweltering days. Sometimes we don’t consider all the obstacles that a farmer/home gardener face; either it doesn’t rain enough and they have to water their gardens or it rains way too much.
Growing up, I enjoyed all the fruits of Mama and Daddy’s labor that went into having food for our table. It wasn’t just a summer thing, not at all. Mama, Daddy and us kids canned and froze all the extra vegetables for the winter months, with the exception of all the vegetables that they gave away.
Count your blessings; they may even come as some home-grown vegetables. Love to all my dearest friends!
God bless and enjoy! I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. – 1 Corinthians 3:6-9
Lemon Icebox Pie
Crust
1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs or use a (9inch) already prepared graham cracker crust
6 tablespoons butter melted
In a small bowl place the crumbs and butter mix well to cover crumbs. Place and form a pie crust in a 9 inch pie place.
Lemon Filling
2-10oz. cans sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup sour cream
3/4 cup lemon juice “fresh if possible or bottled juice
Zest of 2 fresh lemons optional
In a medium size bowl place sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, lemon juice, and optional zest. Mix well spread evenly into prepared crust; bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes; its ok for the middle to jiggle some, just not soupy. When baked, set on cooling rack and allow to cool. When cooled cover and refrigerate overnight or until ready to serve.