One advantage of being young
is not knowing how good strawberries used to be before we sacrificed flavor for size and filling more boxes with less labor.
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I remember being out in the fields in June picking strawberries. We would get about 25-30#. Mom would take some, cut and sugar them and freeze them in gallon bags. Thaw them out, open them up and fresh strawberries all year long.
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Most of those young folks want get the experience of having you bottom side point to the sky weeding/picking strawberries either. Not a lot of fun.
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I have a similar attitude toward seedless watermelon.
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I grew some watermelon for the first time this year. Full of seeds but much better taste than at the market.
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True simple things do add up and come to mind that have changed
My wire has a small strawberry patch
This year our grand kid thought it was amazing to to just pull them off and eat them on the spot
we did wash them but i am sure some made it with bugs and all As they were plucked off the plants
I have to add
my list of the advantage being young would fill a book
Being old has a few advantages i am not complaining just no comparison LOL
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Maybe 35 years ago I was buying a watermelon, trying to tap it to see if it was ripe. This guy next to me said, a sure way of picking a ripe good tasting watermelon was to look for a yellow patch on the bottom of a watermelon. Since then I have done this, that old guy knew what he was talking about, the bigger the yellow patch the better.
I guess I should add, being young and listening to older adults pays off.
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My backyard is full of wild strawberries that pop up every spring. I put off mowing over them until they are ripe. Very small but boy!! They sure are sweet and delicious! I get enough to make just one large bowl that usually gets added over a strawberry shortcake. That is if I don't eat them all first!
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I remember as a kid going with my grandmother to the u pick field. Probably ate more than I harvested
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Growing up in the Country, we'd roam the fields for miles, picking wild Strawberries. Those are the real deal and tiny, but oh so flavorful.
I'm sitting at the Church right now, that has the fields we roamed doing so, right behind me as I type this. Waiting for the Celebration of Life meal, after the funeral.
Good memories in this Holler. Put up lots of hay and cut/speared/hung lots of tobacco, fed Cattle in the wintertime before school, milked cows, slopped hogs, etc. Memories I cherish.
*About a mile away from Copperhead road, of the song, fame. In fact, I can look to my left and see it right now.
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is not knowing how good strawberries used to be before we sacrificed flavor for size and filling more boxes with less labor.
So true.... we always had a 20 x 20 foot patch in the garden when I was a youngster. Lots of work, but cut up and added to homemade ice cream ☺️..... I could crank for a long time for that treat !!!
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When I started high school of course we walked most of the time on the way was a open field I will guess maybe 3 to 5 acres in the spring wild strawberrys came up
It was a highlight of walking to school to go thru that field and eat all could find that was ripe on the way home
Close to same area had a small area we walked by that had wild apple trees in the fall i remember us and neighbors making the walk to pick apples
Years ago it became another subdivision
Now just memories of course
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Near our house was a rental with a catalpa in the front yard and a tart pie cherry in the side. No one that lived there picked the cherries, so it was free for kids. In the summer the catalpa got catalpa horn worms. Great pan fish bait!
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Same thing could be said about boxes of "Milk Duds"🤔
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Milk Duds are still out there. I know, I had a filling replaced when a Milk Dud stole the original.
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I'm still waiting for that golden years thing to kick in.
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cbxjeff: 30050903660827/comments/30050972508571
I'm still waiting for that golden years thing to kick in.
I think the golden years kicked in or will
when you got to go and go now
and you get that golden flow down your leg 😲😥
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I think the golden years kicked in or will
when you got to go and go now
and you get that golden flow down your leg 😲😥
The voice of experience!
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