DO YOU KNOW YOUR BEANS?

For many years when I heard the term "rocky road," I thought it referred to what I did helping the wife get some pintos cleaned out for the pot. Well let me tell you, a few years ago a dear friend of ours (now deceased) started ordering pinto beans for us every year.

They are the nicest pintos you'll ever see, AND NO ROCKS!! Turns out, the last time she ordered for us and all her friends she came over with a 20 lb. "tow sack" (is that spelled correctly?) of pintos and said: "Well, er..., somehow or other I miscalculated and you need to take 20 lbs.---is that okay?"

Then I was my time to "er"-- but we took them with a smile, and besides, you know, what if there happened to be some kind of food emergency? We're set!! And they last longer than you think---these good ones.
She brought us a little brochure and said, "If you need any beans after I'm gone, here's where
you order them." I read the neat little brochure and then...you guessed it...Iost it.

 Then recently I got to thinking about what I'd do, with beans getter fewer and no brochure. So I looked on the tow sack and there was the name of the company. Now as a matter of interest to you computer nuts, I thought to myself, what if I hadn't thought of the sack? Being a new computer guy ( junior grade) of five months with an Apple I Pad, I am TOTALLY amazed at what it will do. So just to experiment, I typed in "Bean Co., Colorado." Wow! There it was! And here it is:

Adobe Milling
Box 596
Dove Creek, Co. 87324
9106 Highway 491E
970-677-2620
1-800-542-3623

Now why am I plugging this company? I haven't had any of their sauces or other stuff. Well, I have a good feeling about their colorful products, their computer display, their location (four corners area), their brochure, and their BEANS! They are beautiful!

Cook's Note: After I grew up, one night I was watching my dear mother sitting there in the family circle, sorting out the rocks for the beans the next day. Something I'd always wanted to know--I said, "Mom, the half-beans are food too, why throw them away?" She answered, "I don't know, my mother always did."

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