Shuck-a-pea

As a little girl, I used to love to go the the garden and eat peas. I would shuck them and eat them straight from the pod, but as an adult, I tend to get my veggies from the grocery store, so I rarely get my peas in a pod.

This week, I received peas from my Farm's share--I'll explain that a later day-- so I had peas in the pod. When mom was here, we decided to eat some yummy fresh peas. Mom proceeded to ask Evan if he wanted to help her shuck the peas.

When mom asked this, Evan stared at her blankly, then quizzically. He responded, "What are you saying? Grandma, I don't know what you are saying." She of course explained that we needed to shuck the peas. I don't think he had ever heard the word shuck before, so he was confused yet entertained by this.

Hence a lesson was launched on pea shucking and the yumminess of peas straight from the pod.
When Evan described his day's activities, he made our actions sound like a singular word: shuckapea. And he was so very proud of this. Today we shuckapead. I like eating my peas that are shuckapead.

A few days later, I got my next week of vegetables and had both "shuckapeas" and "eatapeas." The latter being the kind you can eat right in the pod. However, Evan insisted that even an "eatapea" could be a "shuckapea," and he continued to eat his peas that way.