We had a fish fry at my mom and dad’s house last night. I just thought I’d share this heartwarming picture with you ladies.
If you serve your family ice cream with a garden spade because you couldn’t find the ice cream scoop – say it with me now – you might be a redneck! (Note from Beth: The weirdest part of this is that Keith wasn’t even trying to be funny. He was simply being practical. I saw his handiwork on the counter, motioned for AJ to look as fast as she could and she just happened to have her camera. I’m not sure he ever knew what the big deal was. Welcome to my home.)
We are having “Tea and Testimony” at our MOP’s group tomorrow. I am doing a okie theme (aka redneck;) Complete with sweet tea, bisquits and gravy, cornbread, blackeyed peas etc. Each table has a theme and most of them are traditional tea themes with finger sandwiches and complete tea service. That is too stuffy for me. It is my last year and day of mops and I am going out in complete redneck style! Love the spade. I miss blue bell icecream!
I didn’t know that was a redneck thing to do. My husband and my son in law are both engineers and they use whatever tool works for the task.
When my family has redneck moments I normally follow it up with “Only in West Virginia” because we seem to have a lot of those redneck moments here in almost Heaven WV. So now I guess I will have to say only in WV or Texas would you see a thing like that. My husband loves to garden so I could just see him using garden tools in the kitchen. I have to ask though if your spade was new or used?
Michelle from WV
Oh, that is too funny!! Beth, I am so excited about this weekend at LPL in Boise. I’m going to drive you crazy on this blog telling you over and over again if Friday doesn’t get here fast and then I’ll probably drive you crazy telling you about it when I get back and what it meant to me. Plus, I’m going shopping. I have to admit I’m almost as excited about that. Shopping with other women, what a concept! See you this weekend, Beth.
Oh my! That reminds me of the Easter when we made resurrection cookies. They require 15 minutes of beating egg whites, and my mixer died in the middle. My husband put the beater in his drill and finished beating them. (worked like a charm!)
~Leslie
Love it! Us Texas families really know how to “put on the dog (or dawg)!” Huh?
Thanks for the smile.
Blessings,
Jane
That’s one way to “dig” into the ice cream! Classic!
Hahahah That was gr8! At least you got a bigger scoop 🙂 I might have to start doing that when serving lasagna 🙂
Priceless!
That’s okay, our son-in-law used a fishing pole last weekend to fly kites with our grand-daughters!
Connie
Have y’all ever heard of “Kitty Litter Cake”.
It’s made in a (brand new and not used! Ewww!) cat litter box and served with a (new again) kitty litter scoop! You tint coconut green for the top and roll small tootsie rolls in your hands and make them look like kitty poo draped around and on the edges!
Sounds like a redneck dessert if I ever heard of one! Our youngest daughter made it when she was in high school. The girls were all grossed out but the guys thought she was the coolest girl they’d ever met!
Connie
Too funny! Glad to see you are eating ice cream (my husband and I are dairy farmers)!! 🙂 I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog…godly wisdom, meaningful, and great humor.
Jezz
That is hilarious! We are having an event next spring for my women ministry and gardening is the theme! Wonder if I should ask Keith if I could borrow his garden shovel for a scooper? 🙂
I’m married to a redneck myself!
You know the saying…”if the spade fits…use it:)
Had to check in early today, busy day! Dr. aptmt and baby shower planning for my best friend from high school and my lil sis’ high school graduation tonight!!
I want to dedicate a song to LPM today and all you crazy Siesta’s out there that are crazy about our Lord! “Crazy” by Mercy Me, off the the Spoken for album. Have fun with this one-dance a little if you want, it’s good exercise and praise all in one!:)
2 Corinthians 11:2-3:)
Hebrews 3:6-8, 13-15
katiegfromtennessee
Oh I love it!! Too funny!!
Blessings~
Alyce
oh-my-goodness Rhonda – my husband suggested chips and salsa for our wedding, & I thought he was kidding!!! Maybe he wasn’t … ? Oh, our men are wonderful! Such a blessing (a hilarious one) to try to live with them.
That is too funny! God bless him. He was just being practical. I love that we are created in God’s image so HE must have a wonderful sense of humor! Being a Texas girl myself, I love me some Blue Bell ice cream!
God Bless you all and thank you for sharing that!
Oh, now that is funny stuff!
Yes, sweet Beth, I’m with you. Years ago I wanted so badly to buy a spotlight for our house at Christmas…my husband said his outdoor light (the yellow ones with a CAGE around them) would work just fine. How, I ask, do you even think such a thing? It was like a gazillion watt bulb to begin with, our home glowed from 3 blocks away. I had intented for a softer, more subtle look. One night we were sound asleep when a neighbor frantically rang our doorbell. He was letting his dog out in the wee hours of the morning and saw that our “spotlight” was smoking and sparking. The two got the situation under control and I am now the proud owner of, not one, but multiple…ACTUAL…spotlights for my windows and door. Does it get any worse I ask you?
With a hope laid up in heaven,
Lisa
Keith – Beth – Amanda:
Garden spades and homemade vanilla Bluebell ice cream – it doesn’t get much better than that!
I LOVE Y’ALL – THIS CRACKED ME UP & CONFIRMED WHY I LOVE Y’ALL!
All you needed was one of my delicious homemade PEACH COBBLERS warm and right out of the oven with that ice cream on top!
Love and Blessings,
GEORGIA JAN
HILARIOUS! I absolutely LOVE this! Sunshine
That is absolutely priceless!
Bless your little redneck hearts!
Fish fry, Blue Bell, garden spade…man, I miss the south!!
Hooray for Keith!
I wish I could show you all a picture of the cake my husband just made me for my birthday…mostly frosted (with some bald spots) with multiple kinds of frosting– because he didn’t have enough of the one kind. And — he broke up one of those giant matches to poke in the top so that the foil wouldn’t mess up his frosting!!! He told me ‘at least I didn’t put the red part (sulfur) of the the match in the cake!”
Thank you Jesus for a man who helps in the kitchen! Gives us women a break and a marvelous laugh!!
Love, love, love it! Isn’t it just a man’s way to never even know the difference or that it made a ripple in the pond.
He just wanted some ice cream. Thankfully the trowel/spade was clean!
I showed this picture to my hubby and he said “Well, guys are just more resourceful than women. I don’t see why it’s so funny.” Which made me laugh even more! Praise the Lord for these resourceful men!
Thank you for making me laugh!!!!! I really needed it!
I love it! That is too funny.
THAT IS GREAT!! haha!!
I never thought of using that Thank the Lord it was clean LOL!
God Bless you!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if Keith knows it’s on the blog Hee Hee!
Love
susan La
Umm, I would totally do that. Our motto around here is anything for ice cream.
I so love this! Rednecks rule the roost in my home, so I’ll just have to tell my husband about this handy-dandy little usage for a garden spade. heheheh 🙂
Too cute! Thanks for making me smile this morning!
Rebecca
I would swear (if I swore) that our husbands were blood kin!!!! Oh my goodness Keith you are the best! Perspective: But GOD hath CHOSEN the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of this world, and things which are despised, hath GOD CHOSEN, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that NO FLESH should glory in HIS presence. But of HIM are ye in CHRIST JESUS, who of GOD is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption: that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the LORD. 1 Cor. 1:27-30 THE GOD OF GLORY CHOSE, HE HAD A CHOICE AND THIS WAS IT HE LIKES SIMPLE THINGS TOO Shalom
Love it!! I can see my side of the family doing this. We’re from southern Ohio (ok…I know it’s not Texas, but we too have an accent) but there we’re called Hillbillies. This most definitely could have happened in my house growing up.
The cutest thing is when Grace has asked me…”Mom, are we hillbillies?” To which I replied, “You bet!” She thinks it’s cool. :o)
When I was first married, I asked my hubby to help me in the kitchen. We were making grilled cheese sandwiches. He offered to slice the cheese and I looked over to see him pull out his pocket knife out of his pocket to slice the cheese. No telling where that knife had been. I think that’s one of the last times I asked for his help in the kitchen. He also had no idea why I was freaking out.
At least it looked fairly new…my precious man drinks from the milk carton. I have to buy “company milk” and regular milk because he thinks a glass is a waste of time when he wants milk… I figure it could be much worse!
That’s hilarious…I have to say, though, that if Blue Bell ice cream is a taste of heaven, that Sopapilla Cheesecake dessert of Amanda’s has officially seen me through the pearly gates and propped me up fat and sassy on my mansion’s front porch! From the heavenly realm, I tell you! I’d eat that stuff off a shovel!
You might be a neck………….
If you have to wash your hair in a garbage can by pouring water from the ice bucket, if there is NO HANDICAPPED ROOM available!!!
Been there, done that many times!!!
Well, at least it doesn’t bend trying to get the ice cream out like our regular spoons do. I have got to remember to buy a new scoop. Then again, there must be some garden tools in the garage.
Thanks! I needed a good laugh today.
Looove IT!!!! Sounds just like something my family would do 🙂
Ok question. Is that the price tag still on the handle?! 😉 LOVE IT! If you could walk thru my home you just wouldn’t even believe the “Appalachian Engineering” around here. That’s what my man calls it!! God love ’em! 😉
Val
NC
I have to say, having grown up in Texas with Blue Bell ice cream, I’d probably take it any way you can serve it to me!!!
Thanks for the photo!
Amy in California
Now that’s what I call Jonesing for some icecream! Pardon the expression AJ…lol.
Dear Beth, Amanda, Melissa, LPM, and Siestas –
Please pray for me. I have a 2nd phone interview on Monday at 3:30pm. I appreciate it so much!
Much love,
Sharon, NC
…I’m just wondering…did you serve it in flower pots?
Blue Bell? Here in Siouxland it is Blue Bunny…we have the self-named Ice Cream Capital of the World just a little way north of here.
When we were kids, my sister used to ask my mom for some ice cream. Mom would say, ‘Just a spoonful so you don’t spoil your supper.’
Susan got to where she could balance almost a whole half gallon of ice cream on one spoon…who needs a trowel??
This post and the comments were a hoot to read. Thanks for the laughs!
Personally I think that is a great use for the spade. 🙂
Siesta Marita
Love it!!! Y’all are so real and that warms my heart so much!