YES, it's TRUE!...Almost the 4th of July.. Can't be, but it is almost true. My favorite time of year and my favorite holiday, as I totally respect the reason for the holiday! Being told what to do by the British King did not sit well with the new Colonists, and they put their ingenuity, efforts, and rifles where there mouths and thoughts were! Thank GOD!! Hope you take a moment to 'thank the Colonists' every year, and those who wrote the Declaration of Independence!! Read the Constitution lately?.. Do it, very interesting. Simple and straight forward,,, AND people consider themselves 'experts on the Constitution and Constitutinal law.. READ it, you will be as smart as they are, as the document is straight forward!

Sweet corn on our tables BEFORE July! Earliest sweet corn season EVER so they are saying! This is fine with me. I am ready. I remember planting sweet corn at my Grandpa's house/garden when I was a kid. That would have been in the 50s. He had a HUGE garden out in the back yard. His specialty was strawberries. I hired on the pick them, and we made 10cents a quart and all the strawberries you wanted to eat. Well that did not last long,, as he knew, cuz after about 8 or 9 of them  you are sick of them and don't eat any more! So, it sounded better than it really was!  So, you bent over in the hot sun, picked them and got 10cents a quart!! Rip off!! .. And I was his Grandson!!  HA!! He treated all the local boys the same.

I 'got' to help him rake, hoe, pick, etc a lot when I was a kid. Course I also mowed the grass,, all 3 lots on 6th avenue.......for a free supper and a $1.75....Man, slave labor.....I was actually having fun as I got to be around my Grandpa and Grandma.  They were old and fun.. THEN at night, after working in the garden and mowing, we ate supper, and then watched Lawrence Welk..................................They loved it!!

Time marches on!!!