My Dad, The Gardener, Buys Books

This past Sunday night we stopped  by my Dad's house on the way home from church...

My Dad is an incredible gardener, and his garden this year is out of this world.  He grows corn, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, okra, broccoli, cabbage, green onions, bell peppers, hot and sweet banana peppers, rubarb, squash, zuchini, pumpkins, cantelope, watermelon, blue berries, he has apple trees, turnips, and I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting.  When we went over there Sunday he sent us home with a load of fresh veggies.

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He gave us cabbage which I'm  planning to cook with some polish sausage, corn on the cob, potatoes for stewing, bell peppers that I plan to freeze and add to soups and sauces all year, zucchini for yummy zucchini bread, squash for frying and grilling, cherry tomatoes that I'm going to saute in some olive oil with garlic just until they burst, and beautiful green tomatoes that I will definitely turn into fried green tomatoes.  He also gave us one habenero which my husband might try to eat, but I won't touch.  I don't like hot stuff.  He also gave us some banana peppers that I like to eat with sandwiches or put on homemade pizza.  I love garden season!

He also loves antiques and anything old, including books.  While we were there he showed me some of his latest finds, some of which he got because they were old.  Others he got because he thought they looked interesting, and he knows my sister and I love to read.

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My favorite from this group is The Slim Princess.  I think the cover is beautiful and there are some cool illustrations inside.  I also thought Death of A Stranger looked interesting so I borrowed it.  Although, I didn't get a picture of it, he also had an old two volume Anna Karenina that was beautiful.  I don't know how it escaped me.

I didn't bring my phone into my Dad's, and when he started showing me the books I started using my daughter's Ipod touch (which she never leaves the house without) to take photos.  My husband said, "I guess these will end up in the blog."

Yep babe!  You were right.