PULLING UP OLD ONES & PLANTING NEW ONES...... this is a heck of a job & an expensive one. The end of January & the first part of Febuary is when we re-plant the pecan trees that died the year before. We have to plant when the tree is dormant. As you can see there are a few steps involved but blogger would NOT allow me to put them in order.

1st pic...Putting a new tree in a fresh hole.

2nd pic...Leveling and packing the tree & the dirt.

3rd & 4th pic...packing the dirt down.

5th pic...Hooking the wench to the old dead tree root to pull it out of the hole.

6th pic...pulling the old dead root out. You cant do this by hand.

7th pic...This should be the 1st pic. It shows digging a hole for a new tree.

8th pic...Sizing the hole for the root system.

9th pic...Attaching the leveler to prevent placing the tree too deep or too shallow.

Even though it is past planting time, I just thought I would show you the process. I am hoping that the Easter freeze & the drought doesnt cause us to do much of this next winter. It has been our hopes that growing pecans would be part of our retirment check. We have been blessed that everything for the farm has been paid for in cash but sometimes we fret when we see a small crop or things that hinder production. We are blessed again that we dont have to depend on a pecan crop to pay our bills & most importantly that our trust lies within God & His faithfulness.

AINT NUTHIN LIKE A GOOD FISHIN TRIP!!!!

Danny & I went fishin last week at a slew off the Altamaha river. We didn't get to start fishin until after 4 p.m. and quit about 7 O'clock. As you can see we caught a nice mess of fish. Mostly bream, a few nice blue gill, one white perch, and several nice catfish. Over 30 fish (and that aint countin the little ones we threw back) in less than 3 hours! Yall that is fun!! I have been fishin with this man for 17 years and there have been times that he takes things a little too serious. When the river gets low, often we have run up on a sand bar, or come to a spot where a tree is over the length of the slew, it aint nuthin for Danny to strip his clothes off...get out of the boat & pull it to the destination of his choice & then get dressed again. Sounds extreme but he always catches fish!! Oh & dont get a fishin lure stuck in a stump or a tree & think your gonna leave it there.....OH NO!! You gotta strip down & go get it! "Them things cost money", he says! River fishin is always tricky and ALWAYS an ADVENTURE!! I love to go and despite Danny's "Seriousness" I love going with him. When we got married, part of our vows should have been...."through sickness and health, high river or low river, when the fish are biting and when they are not....do you take this man....". AHHHH...aint that sweet!

"SHOW & TELL" AT KELLI'S HOUSE TODAY!

Kelli at "There is No Place Like Home" is hosting a "Show & Tell" day. So here is my show & tell item.

This is part of a tea set that was given to my Mama from my Daddy. The set only includes 6 cups & saucers, 6 salad size plates, the tea pot, and the cream and sugar bowl. I always remember it being packed up in a box in storage. Mama never cared for it much and frankly there was no use for hot tea in hot Alabama. I admired it as a child. When my parents divorced, some how my Daddy ended up with it. A few years ago I went to visit Daddy & seen the tea set displayed in his china hutch. I didn't recognize it until he mentioned where it came from. Because I admired it so much Daddy gave it to me. I guess it was bought in the 1960's when Daddy was in the Navy but I'm not sure where. I have never seen one like it. I love the delicate yellow roses on it. I wish there was a full set of china to go with it. Any who......this is my show & tell. Mama if you can remember anything else about it, leave it in the comments for me.
If you have something to show & tell go to Kelli's link at the bottom of my page & then you will see the details on how to enter your link to direct others to your "SHOW & TELL"!

With the loss of crops all over the South: THINGS ALWAYS TURN OUT BEST FOR THOSE WHO MAKE THE BEST OF THE WAY THINGS TURN OUT!

With the loss of lives at Virginia Tech.: GOD IS EQUAL TO EVERY SITUATION. HE IS EVER-PRESENT, NEVER-FAILING AND ALL SUFFICIENT.

We have no idea what GOD is up to in all of this mess! HOW dare I put HIM in a box! We are clueless to how HE is working in every situation that HE allowed to happen! I will wait with thanksgiving & praise to see HIS MIGHTY works!

Revee from Country Roads Tagged me for a WIKIPEDIA MEME.

1. TYPE IN THE MONTH AND DAY YOU WERE BORN. January 3

2. LIST 3 EVENTS THAT OCCURRED THAT DAY.
* 1871 Henry W. Bradley patents OLEOMARGARINE!!!
* 1888 Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw!!! (Smart Fella, I think we may be related, lol)
* 1920 CURSE OF THE BAMBINO: The Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for a sum of $125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000!!! (Revee, how's that for Baseball history?).

3. LIST 2 IMPORTANT BIRTHDAYS.
* 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien ( One of my favorite authors ever was born on my birthday!! Wow Great minds were born on January 3rd!)
* 1956 Mel Gibson (Ok now dont shoot me down, I LIKE Mel despite the mess last year. I think the Passion of the Christ was a great work and I think he is a good actor. I myself have made comments that I regret I ever made.)

4. LIST ONE DEATH.
* 1903 Alois Hitler. Father of Adolf Hitler Just think, this man died before Adolf became the Murderer he was. It makes you think....Did Alois contribute to the mindset of Adolf or would he have been sickened by his son's acts? Something to ponder....what if huh?

5. This was to tag 5 other people for the same thing but I think most of my friends have already been tagged sooooooo that's all she wrote!!!

HERE KITTY-KITTY-KITTY!!!

I went to Wild Adventures in Valdosta last week with my nieces and nephew. It is like a mini Six Flags but it has a small zoo too. It is a pretty nice place & I think over the years it will get better.
I am a Cat person. Wild Cats especially amaze me. What I would give (probably an arm or two..literally..after it was ripped from my body) to pet a big cat like a LION on the bridge of its nose! Oh & the paws....they just need to be touched too!! I want to really bad!! Maybe when I grow up I will be a lion tamer!!

I took these pictures of the cats...they were not moved by ANYTHING! They just laid around and WOULD NOT get up for nothing or nobody! I wanted to see the male get up & walk around but he just slept. I couldn't even see his face. Now this female would roll over every now & then so I got a decent shot of her.

Hope yall have a good weekend....I have to work the next 3 days!!

NUTHIN MUCH.......................

After talking to my brother for a long time today, I was left thinking and praying about some things that have been bothering me for a while. Sometimes it is so very hard not to let your focus be on the negative. If worry could kill I would be like Lazarus on the 4th day ...I would "Stinketh"! Anyway...there is so much negative to steal your focus. In the midst of it today I thought about how many positive things that are going on in my life too. The correct term would be to call them what they are and that is B-L-E-S-S-I-N-G-S!! My spiritual Daddy says..."You have to be intentional about things". He is right. So I am intentionally going to think of some BLESSINGS this afternoon.
Just a few....I'm thankful for my Mama & my brother. I'm thankful for my spiritual Daddy that always has time for me, no matter what. A husband that puts up with my weirdness and still loves me. I'm thankful for feeling like me again. Oh I could go on & on...I'll stop here. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME....ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!



The pictures are of a new teapot I recently bought...from K-Mart on sale & A box full of letters from friends & family & some other stuff. Some blessings.

Like the lack of rain aint enough then we had to get some freezing temps for a few days! The pecan trees had already put on tender leaves & some were ready to pollinate. The young trees are burnt & much of the bigger trees top growth are burnt also. The big trees should fair better but I dont know if we will have a crop or not. Danny is worried about the young trees living. Danny called the county extension man to ask his opinion of it all. Well he had only seen a freeze like this once in his life...so who knows. The blueberry farmers are in a pickle too! They already had fruit on their plants! DRY!! Oh my it is sooo dry here. We haven't had any rain since March the 1st & our water table has been low for a few years now. Well there is one thing about it all....GOD knows what we need before we ask. I wonder how many of the farmers have murmured but not ASKED?! I think I'll do a mental check of that when I'm beating around hear. I will make it a priority to ask the farmers if they have ASKED GOD for rain. You never know what will come out of it all!

I tried to write an Easter post several times but I just couldn't. Too much to express! I love Easter & I love reading the scripture that tells about Jesus' sacrifice for me. So let me ask yall a question. When you read scripture do you frequently imagine yourself back in those days...like what would you do or how you would act if you were there when Jesus was crucified? I think about things like that all the time when I read the Bible. Another thing I imagine is how would that particular event take place now in this day & time.

"I was watching Fox news Friday & heard that they killed a man over in Jerusalem. They nailed the fella to a giant cross & let him hang there until he died. A reporter was doing interviews with folks over there & half of the people said this guy named JESUS was crazy, that he was demon possessed and wanted to be the President of their country...they said he wanted to be the ruler over the entire world! Can you believe that? Then the reporter was talking to some other people that said this JESUS fella was a really good man...perfect of a matter of fact & that he was sent by GOD!! Well I dont know what to think! Did any of yall hear that story on the news?"

So sometimes I think about things like that. I dont know why. My husband does not go to church with me. When I'm going to the sun rise service I always tell Danny that I'm going to see the stone rolled away. One year Danny asked me did I see Jesus. I told him that when I got to the grave yard that JESUS' body was missing & while I was calling the police JESUS showed up & told me to go home & tell Danny that HE will see him in a minute so that Danny could stick his fingers in the holes in HIS hands!

I love Easter, I love Good Friday! I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Bible is personal to me. The cross was personal to me. JESUS is personal to me. I love HIM & I am forever in debt to HIM but He said I dont owe a thing!
"He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. Romans 4:25"

FAITH IS MY ACCEPTANCE OF GOD'S ACCEPTANCE OF ME.
The late Adrian Rogers













Pic.s I took in the Smoky Mountains.

I love Spring!!!

There's white perch fishin and then bass fishin & TURKEY SEASON!! Monday Danny & I went to see if we could get us a bird. It was foggy & we couldn't get the gobbler to come down from the trees. He flew from tree to tree. Yesterday there were 3 toms competing to get to my decoys first. It is an amazing thing to hear the deep tone of a swamp bottom gobbler yelling his head off. Then to see him & his competitors vie for the hen at hand...ahhh! The joy! Any who...it was a good morning! We went this morning but we could barely get a turkey to yerp. Go figure! It was still nice to be in the woods as the world was waking up. Oh he had an 8 inch beard & some serious spurs!

Revee & her family just acquired 3 new additions to their family....pretty little cocker spaniel puppies. Well about 3 weeks ago I ended up with a new addition too. I was coming home & found this cutie in the middle of the road. No mama, no siblings, and NO one would claim her in the area. So I took her home. Despite trying to name her...she keeps getting called "Little Girl". Gandalf does not like her one bit...I thought he would get use to her but so far it is a NO GO! Danny didn't like her either & he still tries to act like he doesn't like her but he has been heard in the early morning hours talking to her & has been caught loving on her too. What kind is she.......well a SOONER I reckon, sooner or later we will figure out what she aint! She does have big feet!

GOOD MORNING!!!!

This is the meanest Rooster known to man! I have complained about him often. You can never turn your back on him because he will flog you with the quickness with them big-old spurs he's got. Kevin was working outside a few weeks ago, minding his own buiseness when "Attack Rooster" had snuck up behind him & started flogging him in the back of his legs. Danny & I were gone at the time. When we got home we found rooster had been duck taped! Kevin snatched him up & wrapped his spurs & legs with duck tape! It was so funny! I should have gotten a picture of him. Rooster would run up behind you & try to flog you but it didn't hurt a bit with the duck tape on. LOL!! I guess Kevin started feeling sorry for him at some point & took the tape off. Yeah that Rooster is a mean one but he sure can crow!!!!

I have never seen this type of bird at my feeder before. He hung out there all day Sunday. From bird book it looks like it is a cow bird but I wouldn't think a cow bird would eat seeds. Do yall have any idea?

SIN IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IN THE WORLD;YOU JUST CANT AFFORD IT!!
A Seed from The Sower
Michael Guido

While we were fishing at the lake, we got to see some beautiful eagles. There were so many. It was amazing to see them hunt for fish. They would catch fish when we were not. You could always see one sitting high up in a tree at the edge of the lake. What a majestic bird!

This is the double fireplace in the lodge at Dorchester Plantation where I went quail hunting the other day. You can sit on either side of it & it was just as pretty on the other side as the one you see here. I love a real fireplace!! I couldn't resist taking a picture of the big old piney-wood-rooter's head! Wouldn't it be great to have a head like that hangin in your livin room!!!

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It has been a long and busy week! My youngest started a new job this week and his hours caused me to make some adjustments around here. The farm truck tore-up on us this week. After taking it to be fixed, thinking it was, going & getting it...then finding out it was in worse shape and by far fixed....we had to take it back again. TIME CONSUMING!! Spring has sprung here so things will get hopping soon enough! It hasn't been a bad week....just busy! Afterall, I did get to go fishing at the river yesterday morning....didn't get a bite but it was fun & I went to a new spot I'd never been before. My fav-o-rite great neice had her 4th bithday party yesterday afternoon and I enjoyed that too. The pictures are from the quail hunt I went on at Dorchester Plantation a couple weekends ago. A dog on point. Danny's brother & a buisness partner shooting at a covey of quail. OH that was sooooo much fun & I cant wait to go back!!
I hope everyone will be in church today. I have to work...BLAH!!!
PRAY FOR YOUR PASTOR
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matt. 5:16"
. Pray for your pastor to point to Jesus and not seek undue recognition for himself.
. Pray for people to see Jesus in your pastor and be drawn to HIM.
. Pray for members of your church to also seek to point people to Jesus and give God the glory.

WHERE IS MY MAMA'S BLOG......WHERE ARE YOU MAMA....I TRIED TO CALL YOU! Something is wrong with blogger. It aint acting right at all! Not posting right & my Mama's blog is missing! This is the 4th post I've tried this moring!!! What in the WORLD IS GOING ON!!!!! I NEED TO BLOG!!!!! I"M GETTING THE SHAKES!!! MAYBE I SHOULD GO TO THE BETTY FORD CLINIC!!!