Pigs on the Patio: My Life Driving Herd on a Lowcountry Plantation

Plantation life takes on new that means in Liz Tucker s pleasant memoir of the times when her younger household lived at Limerick Plantation, close to Charleston, South Carolina. Even in case you weren t raised on grits, the stereotyped imaginative and prescient of the antebellum South of white-columned mansions, mint juleps and Rhett Butler is eclipsed as we romp via a time described by Liz as a tasty slice of life when every day bubbled with pleasure. Liz invitations you to affix her at Limerick to get pleasure from story after story of her younger and eccentric household, which included her husband, a.okay.a. The Saint, her 4 individualistic kids and fixed company, who seemed on in amazement as a seemingly never-ending solid of untamed and home critters congregated on The Patio. Along with the eponymous Pig of the title, Wilbur (till he s the primary attraction at a barbecue), there are coons within the cabinets, cows within the cornfield and calves within the doghouse, plus the same old golden retrievers so essential to a life-style the place