Green Beans In The Garden

We've worked in the garden some today and we butchered a couple of our chickens. Tomorrow morning we plan on a large harvest of green beans, as they are coming on strong both at the river bank garden and our main garden!

We also caged our drake this evening and we plan on butchering him tomorrow! I don't know if we will have roast duck for dinner tomorrow, but when we do it will be our first meal of duck here at Pure Water Hollow! We've had ducks on the homestead for some time now, but we have never gotten the opportunity to harvest one for the table. It seems that we have trouble keeping them alive long enough due to the predators and cars! Needless to say, it is an exciting thought to finally have a duck harvested here at our homestead! Perhaps I will write more about it later.

For this post I really want to share a wonderful song by the West Ladies. We here at Pure Water Hollow sure do identify with this song! I don't work nearly as hard as the daddy in the song and we only have a family of 7 and we haven't gotten our milk cow or plowing horse yet and no one ever had a snake thrown on them, but the over all feel of the song is just what we are all about here. (By the way, someday I think we will have a milk cow, but I'm still not sure about plowing with a horse! I would love it if we could get a good one, but I'm still thinking about getting a tractor!)

The song is called "Green Beans In The Garden". Since we are blessed with an abundance of green beans right now, I think it is an appropriate song!

Daddy was a farmer, he worked from dawn till dusk.
In the hot hay fields and a shuckin them corn husks.
He never worried about money, just said we'll make it through.
There was one thing about Daddy, he knew just what to do.

Mama sure loved my daddy, she raised 8 rowdy kids.
She milked a cow named Dolly and plowed with a horse called Sid.
Daddy at times seemed sorry for all of the hard work,
But Mama said not to worry, we've got a lot to be thankful for.

'Cause there's green beans in the garden,
Clean clothes on the line.
Yeah, there's little bare foot children,
Playin' beneath a grape vine.
The sun is shinin' bright, and the creek's a bubblin' too,
We've got a lot to be thankful for and Lord I want to thank you.

They called us kids hill-billy, I guess that it was true,
We climbed trees so high, and never wore our shoes,
One day my brother Travis, found a snake in the wood stack,
He threw it on little sister, then Daddy took Travis out back.

'Cause there's green beans in the garden,
Clean clothes on the line.
Yeah, there's little bare foot children,
Playin' beneath a grape vine.
The sun is shinin' bright, and the creek's a bubblin' too,
We've got a lot to be thankful for and Lord I want to thank you.

Well people often asks us what keeps our family tight,
They think it's a hard task to feed 10 folks each night.
I never heard Mama complain, she'd look at Daddy and say,
Our life is full of love and we share it every day.

'Cause there's green beans in the garden,
Clean clothes on the line.
Yeah, there's little bare foot children,
Playin beneath a grape vine.
The sun is shinin' bright, and the creek's a bubblin' too,
We've got a lot to be thankful for and Lord I want to thank you.
We've got a lot to be thankful for and Lord I want to thank you!

Here's the youtube link. I think it is a very nice video, as well as great music! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3CPlD9YD8
Enjoy!