What do you do on Sunday afternoon for fun and excitement? Could suggest a trip to the J and J flea market. Headed out there with friend and neighbor Jim Fiscus yesterday to pick up a couple of Eggplants and Peppers for the garden but as usual spent an extra hour and came back with some interesting “stuff” , some of which I probably really don’t need. Did find Mr. Rakestraw in his booth of knives and Iron pots and purchased three carving sets that will look great on our Tenderloin Stations. Now why I have been using commercial knives all these years when an antique carving set would have been far more in keeping with our look, I do not know. Never too late to learn I guess.
Antique carving sets
Now I also found a gentleman with a box of Coke Cola bottles, the old green ones the we use to pick up along the side of the road and return for 2 cents which gave us spending money for the week. That was before Lady Bird Johnson convinced us to stop littering the sides of the roads. Back when I was a kid every town had a coke bottler and the name of the town was printed on the bottom of each bottle. I remember my grandfather Russell “Russie” Daniel would greet every customer that would come into the farm machinery business with “Howdy, Howdy, Howdy, let’s have a Coke.” Lots of times he would play a game to see who got the bottle from the town the furthest away – that person got to pay for the Cokes. Well, all this information came flooding back and I decided I “needed” these bottles. I gave Jim the $15 and asked him to pick them up while I brought the car around. Too my surprise Jim talked the man out of 6 more that he had in his truck so now I have a fine collection of Georgia bottles that are going to look great on the Bar at someone’s wedding or party. I put them on an old bottle rack last night for supper and we all put a quarter in the pot and each pulled a bottle off the rack – My brother Danny won! Russie would have been proud.
Coke bottle tree
Oh yea, while at the market we ate two green bananas and found a nice young lady that was selling the best fresh roasted peanuts that I’ve eaten in a month of Sundays. We did finally get around to buying our Eggplants from my good friend C.L. Morehead and he even gave us a couple of bell pepper plants. By the way, he has some beautiful hot pepper plants that are full of little green peppers that will turn red and yellow and produce till frost. I’ll be picking mine for the Hot Vinegar Sauce at Harry’s. Suggest you pick up several for the Patio. You can’t go wrong for $4 and as far as that goes you can’t go wrong with stopping by the J and J on any Saturday or Sunday. It’s an education and a great family and friends outing. It’s Just Plain Fun!
