~MONSTER CATFISH~

FOR JEFF'S BIRTHDAY IN SEPT. JUDY & HAMP GOT HIM A TURTLE & FISH TRAP. WELL, WE WENT OFF TO THE BEACH & THOUGHT TODAY WE MAY NEED TO CHECK THEM.....I WAS PULLING THE FIRST ONE IN AND TOLD JEFF IT WAS HEAVY & IT MUST BE FULL OF MUDD OR SOMETHING? IT WAS FULL ALRIGHT ! 22.2 LB CATFISH! ACROSS HIS HEAD WAS 8 in. WIDE HE WAS 34in LONG.

THE "NUTS" GATHER AGAIN~

THE MILLERS CALLED THIS MORNING THEY WAS GATHERING THE PEANUTS. THE FAMILY HAS PROBLY ABOUT 100ACRES OR SO.... THIS IS WHERE WE COME IN, WE GET IN ON THE LEFT OVER OR WHAT IT SKIPPED. "BO" THE MILLER'S DOG HAD TO HELP SOME TOO! I THOUGHT THE COTTON FIELD WAS SO PRETTY ALSO~

HAMP CAMPBELL FIELD

MY BROTHER IN-LAW HAMP WAS HONORED LAST THURSDAY IN HIS HOMETOWN. THEY NAMED A BASEBALL FIELD AFTER HIM! HE PROBLY CAN'T EVEN TO BEGIN TO TOTAL UP THE KIDS HE HAS COACHED THROUGH THE YEARS. I LOVE TO HEAR HIS STORIES THEY EVEN SHAVED HIS HEAD ONE TIME! HE WAS THE TYPE OF COACH THAT IF THE KIDS NEEDED A RIDE HE'D MAKE HIS ROUNDS TO PICK THEM UP OR DROP THEM OFF. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU HAMP~

SHRIMP FEST. 2009

We got to Gulf Shores around 10 on last Tues. night. It was so Hot. We had a great time & way too much food! If you get a chance when your down that way you MUST eat at the TIN TOP! I repeat you need to eat here! We all got something different & passed around plates as if we was the Walton's instead of the Winfrey's! I will also add Jake was on "clean-up" duty! He finished off any crumb that was left! Me & Judy tore out all over Baldwin Co. on Wed. cause the men went fishing! At least that's what they said they did, I think they gave it a good try! We hit every thrift store from Gulf Shores to Fair Hope! Thurs. was time for the fest. to start & also the night for the TIP-TOPS they are a very exciting great band from Mobile. We love to watch them! The heat index for that day was 90 something, you couldn't hide from the heat nowhere! When the boys was fishing, being the people watcher I am I spotted this little man w/ these nets and chicken legs (yes, chicken legs) He was crabbing! Well early Fri. I got me some nets & my own chicken legs. After alot of "poking" from Jeff we tore out back to the bay. We caught about 10 or so I LOVED IT! Guess who liked the crab nets after that? Mr. Jeff! We yardsaled Sat. until we couldn't anymore cause we run outta energy & room in the car! We was packed! We got back in time to go to the Miller's condo for the Bama game! We had a great trip Judy's son Adam got to join us this year along w/ Jake, Tyler & Jennifer!

BAMA & ARK. GAME

We got to make a unexpected trip down to T-town for a couple of nights for the Arkansas game. We stayed in the motor home w/ Bobby M. It rained cats & hound dogs only to stop a few min's before kick off! Here are a few of my pic's I'd like to share with you!

A HUNGRY BABY!

Happy Birthday Jeff !!!

We tried to gt him good a couple of Sat. ago w/ a little surprise party. I think it turned out very well! Everyone "cut-a-rusty" as Granny would put it! We had way too much to eat as usual! It was just a good enough reason as any being Jeff's birthday to call in all his buddies! Him & Dylan did alot of karaoke singing! Dylan did his version of "Chicken Fried" also! Everyone loved hearing Doc & Emily sing too! His birthday is today, but w/ college football getting started up we had to back up & punt. This is his favorite time of the year. So we just backed it up a Sat. or so.....

Angel Trumpets

These are our Angel Trumpet trees! Granny's is a pinky-peach color & mine in a dwarf dark purple in the top picture. Granny's is over 5ft tall & mine maybe a foot at the most, very small!

Spice Towels

~When Granny isn't fishing she is either reading or sewing on something! Here are my spice towels, I have searched high & low for someway to show them off! This is a rack I found on one of my junking trips! It's all by hand ! She don't need a machine!

sweet babies!

We love to go check the deer camera. I get SO excitied! Here are a few of my latest pictures! I love,love, love them. Sweet Babies!

Turtle & Fish Traps

Well, things can get ugly when you let Jeff & Hamp go off to town together! They came home w/ 2 traps for the pond! Them pesky turtles have been eating Granny's bait & that's not good! These 2 love to go check the traps & see what they have, so far they have 7, counting the one Mr. Bill hooked w/ his rod! My contribution to this project is the pigs feet for bait. You can never go wrong w/ pigs feet as bait! =)

~EHS class of 1959~

Sr. Yearbook picture

Some nutt she went to school with?!

This is her 2 best buddies Doris & Nancy.

~Last Friday night I took mother to her 50th class reunion! The house was full of folks from

as far as California. Some was there who had never been to one before! The count was about 144 outta about 200 classmates. The food was good & lots of entertainment. She went w/ one of her friends on Sat. to the Golden Oldies reunion, it was for anyone from 1959 class & older. She said about 450-500 showed up for that one!

Granny 's 5lb 11oz catfish

When we was coming home late Saturday eve. from the amish tour. We passed by Granny's & I told Jeff she's at the pond. Imagine that! By the time we get to our drive & beginning to unload, I saw a little "black dart" coming across the dam of the pond. I told Mrs. Miller "OH Granny has got something going on!" My poor Cocoa probly had her claws dug into the bed of Paw-paw's truck cause Granny is HAULING IT! By this time Jeff is watching her we knew she'd got a big one or a turtle! When she caught her breath & Cocoa got the bugs outta her teeth! This is what she had a 5lb 11oz catfish! She wrestled him in & put in the fish basket for Jeff to clean!

~Our Amish Tour~

These signs tell you what the family sells or makes.

A sweet little Amish boy & his dog.

~Doorstep brothers~

Cutting hay..

... gathering the hay, this is a half load too!

We took of Saturday morning on a Amish tour w/ the Miller's to Ethridge,Tn.
Mr. Miller done a fine job navigating us through the country considering he had a faulty map reader. (me) Most everyone was busy working in the fields cutting hay or gathering vegetables to sell. We'd been in big trouble if we'd drove a truck when we got to the family that made swings & gliders! They we're so pretty made from heavy cypress. It was something to see.

"SAVE THEM SEEDS JILL!"

Uncle Melvin & Aunt Eugenia is always spoiling us! I love to go up the their house & see what he's gathered outta the garden & going to the market ! He brought us home this huge "yellow meated" watermelon. I was so excited, I love watermelon for breakfast & any other part of the day! I was jumping in the mule to come home when he yelled to dry the seeds & He'd grow me some next year! You can't beat that with a stick!

My CORNIEST Posting Yet! =)

Uncle Melvin's corn is so pretty this year! He has white/Silver Queen

& the prettiest yellow corn also!
We've picked few bushels this weekend & got it all worked up. Below Jefferson is silking it for me, he's a good corn silker!

Wasn't to many of these wormy fellers in our corn!My stove was full of boiling pots of corn!

~Here is the Horton's Corn Queen 2009,~

CHOCOLATE CHIP POUND CAKE