Finished Boiling Peanuts

Coker, Alabama

Weather: low 42 degrees, high 69 degrees, clear skies

The outstanding weather continues, and should for another few days. We went out to the house and finished boiling the green peanuts. Even after eating what we have, we were still able to put about 30 quarts in the freezer. It looks like we will have boiled peanuts to enjoy for awhile. And it was at an average price of about $1.00 per quart. If we had bought this many peanuts already cooked, they would have cost us $5.00 to $7.00 per quart. That's quite a savings.

While we were waiting for the peanuts to cook, I puttered around in the yard. There were two piles of yard trash I had been planning on burning, but decided to just drag it off into the woods. After doing that, I ran the mower over the spots to get rid of the straggly weeds that had grown up around the piles. Even though it was cool weather, I managed to work up a little bit of a sweat. The reason I had not done anything about the piles of yard trash before now was that I didn't want to take a chance of stirring up a snake, especially after being startled by the rattlesnake a few weeks ago. The cooler weather tends to slow the snakes down.

After the yard work, I was sitting in the garage reading a book. I happened to look up the driveway toward the road and noticed three deer walk out of the woods. They were in full view for about ten minutes. I told Carolyn to come look. Both of us enjoy seeing wildlife, especially in the natural state such as what we have around the house. There are usually several hummingbirds around, but the cooler weather seems to have prompted them to move south.

After finishing at the house, we returned home for a well-earned bout of meditation. Tomorrow, Carolyn has an appointment with another doctor about the nodules on the calf of her legs (this makes five doctors for the same complaint). We're hopeful this doctor will know what the problem is and how to fix it.

More later, be safe.

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