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Daily Archives: February 14, 2018

Valentine’s Day

Every time I said “Happy Valentine’s!” to someone today, Joey would grunt, “Pea Plantin’ Day.” Now, I worked at the Co-op a long time, and I don’t remember this particular day in February being marked as that designated time to plant legimes, but it sounds about right. Although I doubt anybody was planting peas or anything else in this flood of biblical proportions.  So, in honor of Joey’s- and evidently Southwest Virginia’s-pea planting roots, we’re having sugar snap peas with pork chops, taters, and onions tonight. I’m using a paste that I bought off our computer guru who still plays Grand Theft Auto with his other grown men friends. That’s right, computers and cooking condiments. He calls himself a nerd so the rest of us don’t have to.  The lovely Tracy baked some cookies to perfection and delivered them in their little baggie tied with a wee bit of string to my place of employment this morning. Were they picture worthy? You betcha. Did I pause long enough to take a picture before gobbling them down? Not hardly. In my defense, I did share, though.  There was a BOGO sale at the library today (speaking of nerds, right?) so naturally I stopped by.  And found this lying in the parking lot.  It kinda broke my heart.  I could clearly picture some…