1.) Wild Bob - 06/20/2017

Besides watching bean fields, wetting a line here and there, and sweating on electric bikes... any of you goobers plant a garden this year?

2.) Swamp Fox - 06/20/2017

I don't have a girlfriend at the moment, so no...


LOL

3.) Swamp Fox - 06/20/2017

I don't want to speak for any of these other guys, though...

4.) bluecat - 06/21/2017

You bet. Picked some green beans tonight and some brocolli. Potatoes are next.
Planted blackberries, boysenberry and raspberry bushes for future wine.

5.) Jon - 06/21/2017

Yep, have 4 different types of tomatoes, 2 squash, 4 peppers, some different herbs and cucumbers. Plus 200acres of corn and some clover!

6.) Wild Bob - 06/21/2017

I'm growing some spaghetti squash, zucchini, yellow squash, egg plant, bell peppers, sweet peppers, some maters, cucumbers and last but not least, some habaneros that I've got ear marked to go into a spicy southwest venison breakfast sausage I'm going to try making this year.

7.) bluecat - 06/21/2017

Sounds good Bob. I'd be interested in the venison breakfast sausage posting when you make it.

8.) Wild Bob - 06/22/2017

Well...to be honest, I'm robbing the idea.

About a month ago we were camping out with a bunch of friends. (Its a beginning of summer tradition my youngest son started with friends of his. Every year on the first weekend after school lets out, we camp out with four other families who have kids that my son is friends with. Its chaotic, dam kids everywhere and we turn the campground upside down with a boat load of hopped up tweens that one first night stay up burning all their papers and note books from the past school year.)

My wife and her friends, aka the other mothers, love it and hang. And me and a couple of the other fathers man the fire at the adult site and endulge in some beer and good eats.

So anyhow, this year this really nice older gentleman pulls in, sets up his tent right in the middle of redneck Montana Central.

My wife took one look and said, "oh Lord, that poor man is in for one long weekend!"

Well, he was a good sport, despite that he easily had every right to be grumpy. (Course, he was from Butte and if anyone should know anything about Butte its this: its mining, drinking, Irish and fighting heritage runs deep! As a matter of fact, they are so proud of their roots that they have a popular tee-shirt that i see guys from there wearing that is labeled, "Butte vs. Everybody."

So anyway, ovee the course of the weekend, me and my wife tried to be real nice and somewhat appologetic of the carrying on. He was cool and said he understood having reared kids once.

So on the day we were packing up to leave, this guy comes over to our camp carrying two packs of sausage meat. He explained that he picked it up at the Butte Meatlocker (a well known regional butcher shop that makes all kinds of specialty sausages) but he didn't like the 'Southwest Breakfast sausage' as it was too spicy for him.

Of course, this perked up my interest as I love spicy food. So we took it and man that is awesome stuff! Its got habaneros, sweet peppers, chedder, and pepper jack cheese and celantro in it. So I'm gonna try my own version with venison and everything else. The cheeses give it a really a nice flavor offsetting the heat. Good stuff!

It just about makes the perfect breakfast along with fried eggs, garlic cheese grits and home made biscuits!

9.) bluecat - 06/22/2017

Sometimes that's all it takes to start a new adventure. It's a "man, I really want to try and make that" moment. Keep us posted and post lots of picks. Some of us don't read so well.

10.) Swamp Fox - 06/22/2017

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Well, he was a good sport, despite that he easily had every right to be grumpy. (Course, he was from Butte and if anyone should know anything about Butte its this: its mining, drinking, Irish and fighting heritage runs deep! As a matter of fact, they are so proud of their roots that they have a popular tee-shirt that i see guys from there wearing that is labeled, "Butte vs. Everybody."

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Say no more! I like him already!---LOL

Somebody or some place that makes good specialty sausage is something worth holding on to.

Your weekend reminds me of one night I spent at a state campground on Lake Moomaw in Virginia on my way to a wilder camp. The lake is in a beautiful area, the fishing is pretty good from what I understand, but it is only a few hours from DC and the Northern Virginia suburbs, so people don't know how to act.

I highly recommend it, though, if you like the loud campfire talk of not-too-bright community college students at 3 in the morning, and the sound of people having sex the next site over.

11.) luv2bowhunt - 06/22/2017

We have a small garden. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, spinach, cucumbers.

Also, right now have strawberries, and black raspberries. Blueberries are looking good so far if I can keep the catbirds out of them.

12.) Wild Bob - 06/22/2017

[QUOTE=luv2bowhunt;49585]We have a small garden. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, spinach, cucumbers.

Also, right now have strawberries, and black raspberries. Blueberries are looking good so far if I can keep the catbirds out of them.[/QUOTE]

Nice! Love the berries...wish more of them grew better around here. Mainly just Chokecherry and Buffaloberry grow well in my area - which are good, and we enjoy them, but I miss the others when they are nice and fresh!

Those catbirds...I've heard you got to choot 'em to get rid of them.