Invitation to My Barbed Wire and Fig Picking Party

When they come to harvest timber, all fences must come down

if y’ain’t never

took down no

barbed wire

fence with

reg’ler pliers

and a tractor

bucket, yer

invited to the

barbed wire

party next

weekend ~

c’mon,

y’all – free

pickin’ of

the last of

the figs ~ and

don’t forgit

to dust yer

socks for

ticks ’cause

them deer

ticks’ll

keep you

itchin’

in places you

didn’t know

were there

Releasing the barbed wire from thick brush

lifting the goat fence posts out of the ground









Fig picking from the bucket of the tractor – where the real fun is found

a basket of fresh-picked figs to quarter and freeze for pouring over pound cake at Thanksgiving

quarter, mix with lemon juice and sugar, and freeze to preserve a taste of summertime for the dead of winter