Last Saturday we loaded up the kids and headed down the road to a farm that I love to visit. They sell farm fresh chickens and turkeys. You can pick sweet corn and blueberries in the summer. But, right now you can go pick strawberries. I was so excited to come home with heaping mounds of red luscious berries. I was going to make pies and jams and stuff them in my mouth and throw them on salads. Ooooh, I love strawberries!
Dad GUM IT!!! You can imagine how irked I was to see that Picked Out Today sign. Mostly because I was too late to pick strawberries and blueberries last year and I thought this year I was on top of my picking game. DAD GUM!!
Guess where we went instead? Can you smell them? Do you love them? Do you want to marry them? Do you want to stick one behind your ear and then scream because a million ants are now crawling all over your face and into your ear drum?
And one more question.
Do you say Pee Oh Knee or Pee Ah Knee?
This post has nothing to do with pee or knees. Thank you, I’ll be here all week. I LOVE YOU, GOODNIGHT!!!!!
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I call them lovely!!!! I love pea-ah-nees.
Check out our PEE O NEES (last year ) – Morgan, Utah
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Long-time-reader-first-time-commenter:
In Or-uh-gun we say Pee-uh-nees like our southern surfin’ neighbors. I don’t remember ants being all over mine…I look again next year when they bloom. Here, strawberries are just now ready-can’t wait to pick and make jam. Sorry you missed out.
I also have to pronounce Pecan Pie like Billy Crystal in “When Harry met Sally” complete with silly accent & articulation. I crack myself up.;)
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I grew up in east-central Indiana, and my family always called them PIE-nees, or pineys. They still make fun of me for calling the plants Pee-OH-nees. I thought it was a regional thing, but when I moved to southern Indiana and met my fiance and his family I discovered that they say PIE-nee down here too! Most of the time I say, “I love those Pee-OH-nees/PIE-nees,” to avoid confusion.
Pee Ah Knees
Pee-uh-knees, and here in Michigan, mine won’t bloom for another week or two.
Pee-uh-knees, here in northern Indiana…mine aren’t opening up for a few more weeks. We have white and pink and the ants don’t stop me from putting them in a very old greenish mason quart jar and plunking it on the counter…love the smell!!!
I call them Pee OH Nee’s. I LOVE strawberries and love to pick ‘em and eat ‘em:-)
Pee uh knees. def in it lee.
We say pee-uh-knees.
Mine are just bursting into bloom and falling over in their lusciousness.
My 5 yr old picked several of the buds, little stinker.
And I say pee-CAHN.
Love them no matter how you pronounce it. My Mom always called them Pineys. I have learned to call them Pee-ah-knees. At my old house I had a few new bushes, but my neighbor? She had a whole row along our shared property line. Wonderful. I miss my old house . . . Sorry ’bout your berry pickin’ BTW Your blog is beginning to be one of those blogs where the comments are almost as fun to read as your posts – almost I said.
Pee oh knees
I’m in Illinois & mine aren’t blooming yet…they are my favorite. & it’s pee ah knees here!
Here in Tennessee we call them Pee-own-ies
Oh, and the Pee-own-ies in Tennesse dropped their last little bloom last week. The green bushiness will last all summer though.
I call them flah-hers. I don’t know the name of any flah-hers so I just call them all flah-her. As in Hey Paw did you see them pritty flah-hers over yonder?
I pronounce them Pee-Ah-knees. I don’t think they’re blooming up here yet. But they smell beautiful!!
Pee ah knees…….and I live here in middle America. I haven’t even paid any attention to how anyone around here says it. My northern Minnesota roots stuck close!
I’ve always said Pee-uh-knee. You crack me up. Found you through P-Dub’s site…I say it like I know her, don’t I? Anyway…love your blog. Hey…could you do a post about chicken keeping and fly control? The flies are going to drive me crazy!
i call them ‘pee-a-knees’… and i call you hilarious and so very RIGHT ON about the ants!!!
what’s up with the ant/peony relationship???
Pee-uh-knees…Oh man I miss that smell, In MN I had 3 huge old old old pee-uh-knee plants, bushes or really they were the size of a Volkswagon bug. Here in AZ. I got none.
Definately Pee-ah-knees around these parts!
My grandpa called them “Pineys” – that’s PINE-KNEES.
Pee-uh-knees. Definitely.
I just want to know if you’ve made anything with those chickens of yours! I love the chicken saga. It should be a mini series.
Definitely pee oh knee. I love the smell of them!!! Ours are finished blooming for the year though.
I say the “ah” sound. Thank-you for reminding me of strawberry picking season….. I have meant to for the past 5 years, but am always too late. I shall now go and find some place.
I tried both ways and with my southern accent, they sound the same.
I Got strawberries last weekend!!!
Pee-uh-knees
My friend has beautiful white and pink ones in her yard every year. Sorry you missed out on the strawberries. Bummer.
I love the flah-her lady. Cracked me up! Anyway……..I pronounce it pee-oh-knees.
Pee-uh-nee here. Saw them up close for the first time when we moved from Florida to North Carolina 2 years ago. We’ve moved back to Florida since then and I miss them big time–they don’t grow well in the sandy soil down here.
Thanks for the pictures!
Oh what a disappointment that you couldn’t pick berries that day! I love fresh picked anything. Wish we lived closer to a farm.
Pee-uh-nees
In my part of Texas we call em pea uh knees.
I saw the title of your post and the first pic and I just knew you were gonna get outta the car with wet pants. HA!
We had a German exchange student about 15 years ago who called them “Pentecost Roses.” Although at the time she was not a church-goer, she knew that in Germany they bloom at the time of Pentecost; thus they are called Pentecost Roses there. I thought that name was as lovely as the blooms, and I’ve never forgotten it. Ants? YES, and they are sickening when they are crawling all over your kitchen table under your beautiful bouquet!
Mary
My entire life I have called the Pee-OH-nees until I recently learned that the correct way is Pee-uh-NEES; I am working on fixing the problem in my own vocabulary, but the problem is that no one around here knows what I am talking about when I pronounce it correctly. Whatever will I do?
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When I told my friend from Georgia(from Ja-Jaw)that my son brought me pink pee-ah-nees for Mother’s Day, that they were pink, huge and gorgeous. She replied, “Your son bought you huge, pink panties for Mother’s Day and you thought they were gorgeous!!??? I think we both peed our pee-ah-nees from laughing so hard once we figured out what we were talking about. It’s a Southern drawl thing…
My husband and every other Hoosier I know call them Pie Knees. I told him that they are Pee uh knees. But once last summer a florist in the neighboring town had a special on them. Their sign read: “Fresh Penis for sale”. Honest to God! They eventually fixed it. But I’m ruined. I always think of fresh penis whenever I see Peonies now.