Summer time and watermelon!

We recently got our watermelon for the fourth. It's a little early but I wanted to be sure to get it before the guy sold out. It's just not summertime until you get that first watermelon. I remember as a kid having watermelon feast. We would eat so much that we wouldn't want any more, ever.

Last year we got that seedless watermelon everyone has been raving about from the grocery store. Don't like it. It had seeds. They were just white or clear and harder to find and I think there were twice as many of them. At first I tried picking them out and then ended up eating them. It was OK but it tasted like seeds and I'm sure everyone has heard about that girl who ate the watermelon seed and a watermelon grew in her belly. I don't want to eat seeds I'd rather have nice big black seeds I can spit out. Which reminds me of all the seed spitting contest we use to have when I was little.

On my way to work there is a large patch of land next to a tiny little church. Every year they have a big soul food day there.  Any way, every morning, on my way to work, I watched the guy go out and plant and tend the water melon and so finally... he was sitting next to a big pile of watermelon. No signs just him and his pile of watermelons. Last year he did the same thing and I never stopped. So this year I stopped to see if he was selling them and got a big one for only $3. He had three sizes and two kinds, stripes and no stripes. He said the ones with out stripes were sweeter so that's what I got. I asked if they had seeds and he looked at me like I was crazy. "Yes, they have seeds." So I can't wait to bite into that sweet, sweet  water melon and the taste of summer!

Safely tucked in the frig!