I remember when I was a little girl, my brothers, sister and I had the yukky chore of picking beans and we would bring 2 and 3 bushel baskets into the house to snap. As you can well imagine, for little kids, snapping beans had to be one of the "most" detested jobs ever! It was so-o-o-o boring. All this brings me to another thought. You rarely see bushel baskets anymore. Hmmmm! I've got one in the garage but only one. Wonder why that is. I suppose plastic has moved in as a replacement, but I liked those old baskets, didn't you? You know, come to think of it, we used those old bushel baskets for everything. Wonder why they fell out of use?
Anyway, I ended up with 18 quarts and 3 pints of green beans. I know the 3 pints sounds a little odd but I like to have a few pints around in case I need extra for company or soup or whatever.
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