Saturday Evening, September 9
Later in the afternoon Diane went outside to get green beans for Sunday lunch.
While she finished gathering beans, I went to her basement pantry to show you her canning shelves.
Outside again – their Mexican Heather is beautiful
She filled her bucket.
Cerwin and I soon had the beans snapped for a Sunday lunch dish for the fellowship meal at their church.
While we snapped the beans, Diane prepared a fresh peach dessert for the fellowship meal.
I liked how the evening sun captured these items in their kitchen window.
Elizabeth and Nsimba invited Mark, Diane, Cerwin and me to their place for supper.
Mark drove there directly from work.
They prepared a delicious fish and rice meal.
We had a delightful evening.
It takes a lot of dedication to grow the vegetables and then to preserve them — something most city people don’t realize. I have only once seen this, when I spent a week with a friend in Iowa — the story ran quickly through the convention beforehand that Janet was going to Iowa to pickle cucumbers! We did the cucumbers, and froze a lot of beans, too! Diane has put a lot of work into those canning shelvles!
Gardens take a lot of work.