Events of this week have brought back a lot of memories!!! When we first moved to Kentucky to build a home missions church for the Lord, times were hard but the Lord always supplied! During the summers, we always had a garden (not a very productive garden but a garden). Actually, I think the only thing our garden produced was green beans so we always had tons and tons of green beans. The only thing Grandma, our neighbor lady’s garden grew was potatoes and she stored them in her barn until huge eyes grew on them! (I always found those potatoes quite scary!) So there was always green beans and potatoes any way you liked them! Although I still can do potatoes, I must admit I don’t do Green Beans as often.
So this weekend, our cousins gave us some green beans – plenty enough to make my family decide to prepare a canning! What? After all these years? Breaking! Stringing!! Canning Green Beans!!! We all pitched in but after a couple of hours, the bags were still full of beans to be strung and broke, we thought a miracle had taken place. Just like the Lord miraculously blessed the loaves and fishes back in his days, we believed he was blessing the beans in our bags. We just weren’t making any progress (maybe we were out of practice!!!). But we kept right on working till the last bean was broke.
So Dad, Mom and Gran spent all day Wednesday canning the beans – 56 quarts all together. How comes when you are on the last canning – you always need just a “few more beans” for the last jar? Dad went to our neighbors to pick a few beans…bringing home enough for the one last jar… and then some!! To say the ladies were a little upset at him might be an understatement! It had a been a loooonnnggg hot day and he brings more beans home to fix!! You just gotta love it!!
Once again, with a thankful heart, we know that if rough times are ahead, we are blessed with green beans. I wonder who has some fresh new potatoes?
Blessings to you and yours...until next time! "C"
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