Family Time

We had a small family supper tonight. Cheryl's brothers John and Robert were here, Jason and Erika were here and Cheryl and me.
















Here are pictures of Jason playing in the floor, one has John looking on. He loves to eat and to play and is starting to talk now. He says the same word for Daisy and Lacey, two of the dogs. He learned to say yes tonight when he was asked if he enjoyed Grandpa's mashed potatoes. He is a meat and potato and pea and bean kind of guy. We had a pork loin roast, green butter beans and zipper peas mixed, creamed corn, mashed potatoes, biscuits, and gravy. Dessert was blueberry crisp that I made with fresh blueberries from our bushes in the yard. It had ice cream on top and was delicious. Jason loves ice cream, too. If Erika didn't feed him fast enough he reached for her arm and tried to rush her up.

Busy Saturday

Today was a busy Saturday for us. We got up and did our running around. We finished our running after lunch at Docia Farms picking tomatoes. The vines had been picked for market up until now and though they are about too far gone for market tomatoes they were still loaded with some pretty tomatoes. We got a five gallon bucket in less than ten minutes. We came home staked tomatoes here and picked blueberries and then went to Erika's and let the dogs out. We cam back and got cleaned up to go to a wedding. Keith Belk is a really nice young man and a really good AC man. His father Wesley drove Brad and Erika from the Church to the reception in his restored 55 Chevy when they got married. We came back home and relaxed a bit on our patio as we studied our Sunday School lesson and now it is time to clean up again to go to bed. This will make three showers today for me.

Vacation

I am taking a vacation this week at the lake.

I will get everything cleaned up and ready, take the boat out, may fix some stump markers so i can come in after dark with my docking lights, and so forth. I plan a big hurrah the weekend of the 4th starting with a day on the lake, good food, fireworks and more fireworks. I don't have a clue who will be there and It may just be Cheryl and me but we will have fun.

I bought more flowering plants to take so it will be nice to have a week to water them to get the root system partially established.

I hope you all have a happy 4th of July.

Concerned Over my Mother

Last Sunday morning I had breakfast with my Mom and Dad before I left the Grand Hotel to continue my journey. At breakfast Daddy asked Momma if they had told me that Dick had died (Dick is one of Daddy's cousins by marriage)? We had that discussion and then finished breakfast and went up to my room to get my luggage. Mama asked me if they had told me that Dick died? I assured her that we had just had that discussion at breakfast. When we got to my car and were hugging goodbye Daddy told me that Mama appeared to be in the early stages of Alzheimer's. I had seen some of that the previous visit with them. Also, Sarah had mentioned it as well after their visit there at Christmas. I called Henry and asked him to talk to them and try to get her checked out so that if she is in the early stages they can start her on treatment. He said he hadn't really noticed but would go talk to them and try to get her to go get herself checked out. It is hard watching your parents age like this. I am also concerned that if their house is still as it was and not with Daddy on it as Joint Tenant with Right of Survivorship there could be real problems if something happens to Mama first in that event.

Home at Last

There is a verse in song that says, "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." How true that is. After a week on the road It is sure nice to be home tonight. I can't wait to sleep in my own bed. I got home to find my blueberry bushes loaded. I picked a gallon Ziploc bag full this afternoon.

Long week

This has been a long week. I have been to a meeting in Perry, a promotion in Atlanta, a meeting in Washington, the last session and graduation for our young leaders class and then finally tot he USA Peanut Congress. I am getting too old for this and am just about worn out. I am really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tomorrow night. I also sure want to see my grandsons because it has been too long since I have seen them. At least I got to see Chery when I went through Tifton Sunday afternoon to unpack and repack.

Lake Time and Now Back to Work

I had a nice sabbatical at the Lake in spurts, a day off to get there and then an afternoon after the Cotton Commission meeting. Today it is back to work with a conference call and travel to Atlanta and then DC, SW Alabama, and Amelia Island, FL before I am back at home for a night next Wednesday.

I took the boat out twice and the first day there was not a pontoon boat at Ed Dorminey's house, the next day there was. Looks like Janice won that discussion.

I know it is crazy to plant stuff at the lake when you are only there a couple times a month but look at these pictures and you will understand why I like to have some plants there.