picked my first mess of dixielee and purple hull peas this morning. had
to fight the fire ants to get them. picked yet some more string beans
too. (sorry y'all, these are the blue lake variety!) the crook-neck
squash and garden peas have bout played out. cukes are about under the
weather too. butter beans looking good, but not ready for picking
yet. should be ready in about a week. cut quite a few collards last
week, so none of those ready to cut again. no bell peppers either, nice
looking plants, but they put out about 6 peppers, no more since. plenty
of nice green tomatoes for frying, none have made it to the ripe stage yet.

had a run in with a 4 foot 8 inch (yes, i measured!) cottonmouth this
morning too, looked like it had just had breakfast. it's now hanging in
the oak tree across the road........