Mom's Birthday

Mom's birthday was yesterday and we had a good time. I took her the largest of the Sugar baby watermelons from the garden. We went out to the catfish restaurant and filled up on a nice meal. She got the baked tater and cole slaw as sides while I opted for the turnip greens and mashed taters w/ gravy. I must admit I had never seen hush puppies that small before in all my life.
The main drawback to getting greens as a side is I love greens! When I eat (especially collard) greens I want anyone following me into the toilet for the next 3 days to know I been eating collard greens. A few years ago a whole group of went went to another catfish place where they bring the sides for large parties out in big old pots. I said "Park them greens right here in front of me!"

I was about to go back home when I remembered the young ducks had received the last of their starter feed earlier in the day. So a trip to the feed store was due. As usual I loaded up to make my next visit as far into the future as possible and bought 250 pounds of feed. The adults were still pretty good so I got the following:
100 pounds starter, 50 layer, 50 scratch and 50 chopped corn and 1 bale of hay.

I must have gotten my love of growing things from my Mom. She has flower beds and trees all over her yard. I really don't bother with flowers unless they produce some sort of edible like sunflowers. Mom has a fig, satsuma, Meyer lemon, peach and a couple of plum trees in her yard so we swap produce whenever possible. My girls have slowed egg production so I didn't have any to share this time around. At least I'm not to the point of having to buy mass produced chicken eggs even though the grocery has them on special @ 18 for $1.00. I've an eggplant plant in a whiskey half barrel planter that has 4 fruits nearing ripeness. I'm not a huge eggplant fan but again all those I've had came from the store and not home grown here. These just may change my entire mindset! Either that or I'll never try raising the damned things again.

Our Secretary of State is having a big tax lien repo sale of properties via internet auction. I'm trying to find a parcel of land to turn into a larger than I need garden to sell, swap and share produce at food banks if possible. The main problem I'm having with that now is the properties are listed only by "legal description" and not any street address or such that a semi normal person knows anything about. I've found a couple of properties the size wise fit the bill perfectly (about 1/2 acre) but "the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 15" or whatever doesn't tell me a damned thing. Since this is an auction for back taxes, a $6,000 value patch of dirt is start bid prices at only a couple hundred bucks which I'd jump on like a duck on a June bug if I could find one within acceptable driving range.
I'll let you all know should I find the Rosetta stone translating legal description to real address and am able to get the land I want.