Over the weekend, The Girl and I were in the Puyallup area. On the way home we were driving down River Road and decided to stop by Duris Farms to see if there was anything we wanted/needed.
We picked up a Granite Ware Dish Pan, thought about buying a 5 gallon bucket of pickles, snapped a few photos, and then headed home.
Part of me wanted to grab a bucket of cucumbers, {we are growing only slicing cucumbers this summer} but over the past few months I have been able to pick up so many free jars of pickles from couponing, it seems totally silly to can pickles the year, simply because I don’t think we could eat them all.
But I love Duris Farms, okay, so maybe I love roadside fruit and vegetable stands in general, but there is just something a wee bit magical about a place that only opens for a few months each year.
It kind of makes you feel like you are visiting an old friend, like Ike Godsey or something.
But without his meddling wife Cora Beth {she was a pill, wasn’t she}?
Ahhh summer. Heat waves, dirt roads, and sticky, sweet samples of fresh fruit sold alongside the roadway, I love it!
Am I crazy? Or do you have a favorite roadside stand too?
Where is it, and why do you keep going back?
Mavis wants to know!
The Walton’s were the best family on the Planet, no doubt about it. And guess what? Amazon sells all 9 seasons on dvd. Now I have no idea what the producers were thinking when they tried to replace John Boy towards the end of the show’s run, I mean come on, just because John Boy woke up from amnesia and didn’t know who he was, didn’t mean WE didn’t know there was an impostor laying in that hospital bed. Oh well. I still love it. And I’m nerd enough to say we own all 9 seasons.
That’s right.
Goodnight John Boy!
Erica Lynn says
I am good friends with Duris family! We’ve gone to the same church for years! Love love love their farm!
Robin Welch says
In agreement with you. We have one close by in Chino, Ca and I stop by often even tho’ I’ve got a backyard full of veggies and its not on my regular route. Just reminds me of childhood memories and summer’s bounty. Stick a cardboard handwritten sign advertising any homegrown fruit/veggies out front of a shack of a building anywhere and I’m going to stop off to see what you have …..if you sell seconds at a discount I get giddy and can’t help myself. That’s why I still have a pantry full of pear butter from last year.
Helen in Meridian says
Cora Beth was upwardly mobile and would have dropped Ike in a minute if some politician type or hot single minister had come a callin.
Mavis says
I totally agree. Poor Ike, he was a really nice guy {too nice if you ask me}.