a littled 'pea'-ed

are you ready for this post? grrr. i'm ready to write it all out, and then i think i'll feel better about it all. i'm not even sure who all reads this blog, besides you faithful commenters and followers, maybe. but i have to let this out before i burst. well i probably won't burst. but i need to just write it all out. and if the off chance family reads this that should be...well maybe next time you'll ask.

okay to the point.

for those of you who don't know we run about 100-ish acres of farm land. this year we have field corn, hay and peas. we have about 30 acres of peas. yesterday the pea pickers came to pick them. which is all good. and an allllllll day process. they cannot drive very fast.

so after church we drove up the hay field by the pea field to show the girls. and saw that shaun's cousins decided that they could come and pick some peas too. we were both irritated. they drove their car, and one a bike. up to our field. to pick OUR peas. without asking. the issue really isn't that they were picking peas, the issue is that they didn't ASK to pick our peas. in my mind. they're stealing. i do not care one single bit that they're family. as we were driving up to them i told shaun he needs to tell them he is upset and that they should ask.

for those of you who do not know my husband, he does not like confrontation. or being mr. mean guy. i told him to get out of the van and go talk to them. he decides not to. and opens his window and says jokingly 'don't pick them all.' okay what?!?! that is not telling them to stop. that's telling them it's totally fine to keep picking. grr. he talked with his cousin for a bit and then drove up the field. i asked him what he did? he said i dunno. then i just said i'm highly disappointed in you. we had two pails for peas so we drove up the field and back into the field. right past his pea picking cousins and also pulled back into the field behind a truck who we had no idea who it was. i told shaun you need to tell them to stop. so he opens his window again. and again. jokes with them and said to leave some for the pea pickers...or something like that. they said 'we will'. finally because i was SO mad i said. no, how about you're done. you didn't even ask. i think they sensed my voice was a little not so nice. they kind of laughed like they couldn't believe it and they left.

oh wait it gets better. so we pull up to the tractor, that has the wagon with the picked peas in it. the truck that had pulled into our field was there as well. with two people. who we really don't even know. getting out their five gallon buckets and huge bowls. shaun got out and told them that he would've appreciated them asking him first. ((btw he's much nicer than me. i told him to tell them to dump the peas back in the wagon!))

get this. the guy said he had the farmer's permission!! NO. he didn't. shaun said no. i am the farmer. the guy then told him that he thought it was "H's" farmland and that one of the "H's" had told him he could come and get some peas.

yep. you read that right. one of shaun's uncles told this guy that he could come take some of OUR peas. what?!? seriously. why does anyone think that it is okay to do that?!?!

we told the pea picker guy to not give out any more peas to anyone else. we left for the day so i'm not sure if it really happened or not. grrr.

so shaun did call his uncle. he asked him why he was telling people that they could come take our peas. his uncle said, i told him he could go take a handful. i guess he got greedy.

shaun left it at that. i told shaun that he really did not get his point across to his uncle though. that it isn't okay to tell ANYONE to come take OUR peas. he said. yea i suppose so. so we will see if it comes up again and i'm sure that shaun will be sure to get his point across.

i understand not wanting to be a meanie or something. BUT they are OUR peas. really our money. we'll get paid per pound or something like that. so if ten people each take a pound. that's ten pounds. and that's x amount of dollars per pound. how fair is that to us?

so my point of this ranting. JUST ASK. that's all we wanted. just to ask if you could take some peas. we would say yes. after all there is 30 acres of peas. TAKING peas all on your own is not okay.

when i get hungry for some strawberries i don't find someone's strawberry garden and park in their yard and start filling my pail. it's the same thing. our field is part of our yard and our land is just one big garden. so ask before you start thinking it's okay to just park your car and start picking away.

shaun has decided that we will never plant peas down at the corner again. when we had peas a few years ago we had them planted by the house and no one just came and took any. that i know of i guess. but it was harder anyways.

i guess i'm just frustrated at the audacity of some people. i'm sure they thought, oh shaun won't care. maybe that's true. BUT why can't you ask first?

so okay. that's that. i'm sorry to go on and on and on about it. i was and still kind of am.

we were busy all weekend. and hardly home. here's a link to see some of the pictures from this weekend. i'm off to play with the kiddos. the girls just got up from nap. at five twenty. that's a good nap day at our house. :0) hopefully shaun will be home soon and we'll eat some yummy supper. a 'mentor mom' came to mom's group today and showed us how to make a yummy mean. and we all got to eat some lunch and bring some yummy leftovers home. AND that 'mentor mom' wants to possibly have a wildtree party for me!! woo hoo. AND i had someone who saw my book at a hair salon call me and place a 76 dollar order?! how fun is that! god is SO good.

just a reminder to enter my giveaway if you want (ends july 9th) and if you're interested in placing a wildtree order you get five dollars off if you place your order before july 15th. just email me and let me know what you'd like!!