The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Barney Fife, the real Barney Fife, lives in Mil­ton Freewater, did you know that? Yeah, and he's the spitting-image of old Barney without the Mayberry police car.

He's a grower of green beans and says there hasn't been enough heat this summer for all of his Kentucky Blue Beans to climb the garden poles. Nevertheless, old Barn sold me a sack of his young, bright-green beans at the Farmers Market. Arriving home, I made a quick, cold-processed refrigerator green bean pickle for the dinner table. At 6 p.m., I put together a charcoal grill, and when the coals were white, I slapped down a big slab o...