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As Ron Wilson, my birth name, I began my writing career in short-story, article, and poetry writing, and early publication ranged from multiple markets from FIELD AND STREAM magazine, a prominent Boston Literary Publication called IN-POSSE REVIEW, a regular contributor to Springfield MO News-Leader OVER THE OZARKS, The Sacramento BEE and Weekender. Most of my early writing was as Ron Wilson, but there have also been nearly a dozen pseudonyms, most of whom I have forgotten without looking back in my scrapbook albums.

Today, if you see the names Ron Wilson, Ron Wilson Arbuthnot, Ron Arbuthnot, or Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet, they are all me. My second book of poetry, LOVE POETRY by Vee Bdosa,  was awarded the (coveted) honor of EDITORS CHOICE by the Editors. However, only a few hundred are in existence now as I have stopped publication in order to re-write all of my poetry under my ancestral name of RON ARBUTHNOT. I also have written over 300 songs, and am in the process or doing new recordings of all of them and a lot of audio-video of my selected poetry. Much of it, the early, the new, the good, the better, and the best, can be found at YOUTUBE and searching for Vee Bdosa. More later.

Green Beans

Blog Posted by Vee Bdosa: 11/5/2015 10:41:00 AM

GREEN BEANS
I would not want anyone to think of me as some kind of goofy nutritionist, but I do have some thoughts about green beans. That is because I grew up on a Dairy Farm in Eastern Kansas that also had one of the biggest, 3 acres, fruit and vegetables in the county. I am very sure our Father planned this very well, in order to keep us kids busy all day long year long when we were not either milking 32 Guernsey cows by hand or going to school.

We had nearly an acre of nothing but berries, straw berries, black berries, blue berries and all of the chiggars that go along with them. Father would not allow dangerous poisons to kill chiggars because he did not want to insult our city customers tum-tums with dangerous chemicals.

We also had rows of sweet corn, radishes, tomatos of all kinds, cucumbers, potatos, lettuce, cabbage, you name the vegie and we grew them. We also picked them and ate plenty of them fresh.

Green beans were my favorite, Grandmother called them "snap beans," and that is because after they are picked, they have to be snapped into smaller pieces so they caqn be cooked and canned.

Green beans are almost the only bean that can be eaten raw without cooking, unless you include sweet peas as a bean, which some people do.

I love green beans, and ate them for lunch as I did the days work of picking them. Father could never figure out why I spent so much time picking in the green bean row but never ended up with a whole lot of beans in my bucket. It was because I ate most of them.

Green beans are one of the healthiest vegetables of the garden, and there can be a whole bushel of them on only one plant. Especially if the garden is well attended by child slave labor as we were, (but we loved it,) and the earth of the rows hoed and well kept so as to allow God to get the right stuff into the plants that provided the food, in the form of vitamisn, into the fruit of each vine. It takes a lot of work but it pays great rewards. 

Cardiologists do not like green beans a lot because they contain so much Vitamin K (22%) and this is not good if your doctor gets you hooked on coumidin or warafrin. B1, 2, 3, 6 and also Omega-3. But another side of this coin is the fact that if people only ate the right stuff, then there would not even be any of this anti-coligulant medication that usually rips our blood circulation to shreds anyway.

One more thing, when eating these wonderful veggies, it is very important to chew them good. Let you teeth do their intended work and chew, chew, chew, so that yout tum-tum is not overworked and so stressed out that it cannot do its job right.

That's all.



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Date: 11/5/2015 6:35:00 PM
You sure do like green beans. My mom grew up on a farm and enjoyed home cooked green beans.but when she had us girls, she raised us on canned peas, corn and green beans. So I learned to love canned peas and green beans a lot (fresh corn on cob I prefer over canned) Anyway, when she finally cooked us fresh green beans, I hated the taste of them. Just can't eat them that way. Weird, huh? But I eat lots of canned ones now that I am on Atkins diet again!
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