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I don’t really care for black-eyed peas but I have found a recipe that makes them palatable. But I am sure to eat them on New Years Day. It is suppose to bring luck for the new-year. My husband threw in a twist I did not know. He said you had to eat at least one pea for each day you want good luck, so I found a recipe that made the peas taste great. But this blog is not about a recipe. It is about what happens if you do not eat your peas and why we eat them every New Years day now.

About 10 years ago, my husband was putting in a runway on some land we had. New Years morning he went out to do a little grading on the runway. Before long he came in and said he had broken the axle on the grader. He went back out to try and move it with the backhoe as the grader was stuck on the runway. With the help of a neighbor he managed to limp the grader down the runway and around the corner of a taxiway using the backhoe to support the broken axle. Just as he turned the corner and got the grader clear of the runway, the axle on the backhoe broke! Both machines had their right-front wheels broken off! Before noon!

When he came home he said he was through for the day and was not doing anything else all day long. This was all before noon and before the black-eyed peas.