I remember getting in the hog pen at my grandparents and having to scoot up a tree right quick when the hogs spotted us. I don't have any close feelings for pigs either. But I sure do enjoy BACON.

Yep, we all agree. Pigs are good to eat!

Bacon...........what's NOT to love about bacon????

AnnaZ said:Bacon...........what's NOT to love about bacon????

I am really loving these two pole bean varieties I have discovered this year. And It appeals to me that I have them on the two "bean towers", one color on each.



My bean towers.


Yellow on one, purple on the other. French fillet type beans. Really a subdivision of common green beans. French fillet beans or "haricot vert" are meant to be picked smaller than common green beans and they are extra flavorful and tender.

In fact I have been growing Blue Lake Pole Beans for years including this year. I find myself passing by the Blue Lakes planted in favor of picking those french fillet beans to eat.

Picked a bunch of veggies today. Beans, squash, zucchini, eggplants, cucumbers and grape tomatoes.

Rita you could set up a farmers market all by yourself!

I feel like I have a mini farm this year what with all the veggies I pick. But I don't have time to watch a garden stand. I have enough veggies for one though.

And these beans I am growing this year are the best ever. You can be sure I will be growing the french fillet types from now on.

Picked cucumbers and tomatoes.

You know your local paper has a small town attitude when the first bale of cotton out of the gin gets its picture on the front page! Posing with it, of course, are the farmer who grew it along with his whole family and the gin owners. World news is to be found on page two - usually just one column.

Yep, same here (although no cotton..)

On Maryland's Eastern Shore, when there was a parade the majority of the "floats" were tractors! Love it!

porkpal said:You know your local paper has a small town attitude when the first bale of cotton out of the gin gets its picture on the front page! Posing with it, of course, are the farmer who grew it along with his whole family and the gin owners. World news is to be found on page two - usually just one column.

I like that idea. We can get plenty of world news anytime we want by turning on CNN or watching the nightly news. Nice to see local stuff on page one of the paper.

Our local paper is a joke. I don't think I will renew it.

Newspapers are dying all over. Sad. Ours locally is still okay, for awhile.

I used to work for a fairly large (100,000 circ.) newspaper but got laid off when it started to dwindle. Internet.

We have two papers here in town. One is great which I subscribe to. The other is a waste of print. But somehow I get that one also. Not that I pay for it.

>> I used to work for a fairly large (100,000 circ.) newspaper but got laid off when it started to dwindle. Internet.

Years ago, I used to get aggressive sales calls trying to get me to subscribe to a paper. Finally he said "well, where DO you get your important news from?!?"

I said "the Internet". He hung up and never called back.

TV "news" turned into entertainment decades ago (very bad "entertainment" in my opinion).

A high school friend's father used to work for CBS or NBC News back when they had reporters, correspondents and analysts. They presented NEWS on TV that was fact-checked and even thoughtful. I know it's hard to believe, but it was back in the 60s or 70s.

He finally quit in disgust and would rant and rail about it at the drop of a hat.

In civics class, they taught that an active, free press was vital to a democracy - maybe that's one of our root problems. I think most of the Internet is more like drunks arguing at a bar than it is "news", but some sites do have some content.

I get most of my news filtered through the Daily Show. I don't think I'm missing much!

Rick, you are so right! The news is a joke. When we moved to GA I refused to pay for cable here and in MD (house there was not sold yet). I got so used to no TV that when DH moved down here I convinced him to give it a try by showing him how awful TV was when we were somewhere that had it. He conceded and now we don't even miss it. But we did get the paper after a year because we don't know the area very well and it's a good way to get familiar.

I don't think I would do too well without a TV. Mostly I watch the cable channels like HGTV, Food Network and Discovery channel.

What? You're not on ATP all night long?