The nicest way to raise peas

Make friends with an Amish truck farmer
  who calls you after he has
picked a back breaking bushel of peas--
  that he planted
hoed and weeded 
  chased out bunnies
irrigated 
  fought off bugs and birds 
fertilized 
  staked and tied




All that's left for us to do is my favorite part.
Sit on the porch and shell them.
  Let the talk fly
and the silliness
 and a couple of naughty pea-shells.
Every family should have the chance
to sit on a hot summer evening
and bond over a bushel of peas.


Enjoy your day!
 Zinnia Girl!


p.s . Mr Tucker is wild over peas! He will steal them from the bucket. He will risk his life to dodge under the rocking chair for any that drop. When we raised peas in our little garden patch, we wondered why the plants at the edge of the garden never gave any pods...that is, until we caught our dog in the act of picking his own snack!