Touring Pennsylvania

Me and the Mrs. went to visit one of the twins in Pennsylvania over a four-day weekend last weekend. That satisfied our thirty-ninth anniversary gift to each other by getting to see grandkids seldom seen.

A fer piece Pennsylvania is, less than three hours by air, two days by car and almost two months by mule and wagon. If I get up there once a year I consider myself lucky. Besides, ain’t nothing up there but Yankees.

We were about thirty something miles from Gettysburg, PA but still have not made the site tour of the old battleground. Want to find me a musket ball and have been told you can walk the fields out there and might find one.

The boy did take me just up the road to see Three Mile Island if you recall that nuclear plant disaster back in 1979? Do not think I would want to live near one of them things. That nuclear plant could get hot enough to melt all those lead musket balls over in Gettysburg but luckily, those plants are mostly safe.

Managed to get to one of the markets in York where some of the Amish come to sell their wares, veggies and food products; bought a jar of their pickled beets… good stuff.

Back to Texas and the ole grindstone, at least it was a four-day work week and the best kind. The Mrs. seems to be in a better mood for the time being. Give it another week, things will be back to normal.

Took a tour of the garden of weedin this morning, fertilized the tomatoes, pinched off half dozen suckers, slapped dozens of mosquitoes and gave it all a good drink of water.

When I dug the potatoes before we went to Montana, must have left a few in the ground because there are potato tops over a foot tall in the garden and a few onions.

We get enough tomatoes, there will be a final 08 makings of chowchow for the year, and might make this a hot batch.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, do not eat too much.

Charlie A. Farrar is author of many columns of homespun Georgia thoughts, that have appeared in local newspapers. He has published a book with some of the best, “Two Cents Worth.” To purchase a copy, send $12.95 to NEWSpaper, PO Box 405, Highlands, TX 77562.