December 2009

I'm a little under the weather at the moment but much better than I was yesterday. I have a sinus infection and I started on antibiotics yesterday and feel a little better today. :(
I know you all remember Roxie, the Border Collie I adopted from the shelter. Roxie was a 4 month old puppy when we got her. She is the MOST hyper dog I've ever seen !! She is WAY TOO rambunctious for this farm. She dug holes that could cause a broken bone in a heartbeat! I've had three too many of those!

Meet Haley, Vincent and Tony, our niece and nephews. They live in New Orleans. These children have NEVER had a dog as they lived in an apartment where dogs were not allowed.

Well, they moved into a house with a big fenced yard recently and were just dying for a dog!

So we took Roxie down to New Orleans a few weeks ago and gave her to these precious babies!

Roxie, hit the lottery folks! She is now a "lap dog"! She is sooooo spoiled we can smell her up here! Tony, the oldest exclaimed; " she is the best Christmas present ever" ! She even got "ham and eggs" for her Christmas Dinner along with a sack full of toys!Sometimes an animal is just not the right fit for one family but a perfect fit for another, I'm sure Roxie is very grateful to be where she is now! :)

On a sad note, we lost Miss Kitty. I cried for days over this kitten. We had had her for 6 days, I'd been keeping her in my library. For two days prior, I had let her stay in the carport during the day to get acquainted with TC our outdoor cat and would bring her in the house at night. She would not go out of the carport at all! I had her a litter box there and food and water. On the third day( Dec.18th) I went to the post office to mail some packages. She was in a chair on the carport when I got into the car. When I came back from the post office she was gone! We have concluded that she must have gotten up under my car when I got in it and rode under it . We went door to door around the PO and searched for days. No Miss Kitty! My heart is broke over this!If only I'd put her in the house when I left. :(

Here she is playing in the leg/foot part of my massage chair. :(

Yesterday morning we thought we were going to have a beautiful sunrise..........

It did its best to come out for a little while.............

Only if to reveal a heavy frost under 23 degrees..............

Frost and 23 degrees didn't stop Hubby from fishing and catching 13 huge Bream/blue gill.

It looked like a dusting of snow! There is snow in our forecast next Monday!

I love how quite it is in very cold weather...........

Remember a couple of weeks ago when we got 4 inches of rain overnight on already soaked ground? Here's some pics.............These are the pines on the front.

This is the left side of our drive.............

This is our drive and road under water.............

The water covered the whole road.............

A calf is "island in" on the left of the drive............

Well, it's raining again right now, 100% chance all day! Cold and gloomy! Good day for a sick body to rest! December 2009 has been the wettest month on record for Mississippi. Our area has gotten 14 1/2 inches so far. Have a great day everyone!

" Fall Passes Away"

Hubby and I went to visit my friend Pat yesterday and came home with a new addition! Meet Miss Kitty! The mother cat and one of her two kittens disappeared when the kittens were two weeks old. Pat bottle fed this one till it could eat on its own. She is a Calico Manx. She has NO tail ! She is 8 weeks old.The dogs were all excited to see her but she DID NOT take to them !!
She was ready to take them all on!!



So for now she stays in "my porch " room..................

Yesterday we had a dusting of Snow! Not the 1-2 inches predicted but enough to excite my southern heart............

Put me in a real Christmas mood..........

I know you Northerners laugh at us Southerners for getting so excited over Snow.........

We'll laugh at you around late March when we plant our garden and you are still shoveling the white stuff.......... :)

I always think of Ballerinas when I see the branches bending gracefully under the weight of snow

I spent the day decorating for Christmas.........

Digging through box after box of decorations..........

Then of course we watched the football game between Alabama & Florida! Congrats to Alabama on an awesome win!

Today I will decorate some more and of course watch my TITANS try to give the COLTS their

first loss of the season!! This morning we had 26 degrees and heavy frost so I'd say Fall has passed away in South Mississippi.................

We did have some beautiful colors in November. I was so busy I didn't get around to posting the pics! So browse through them and I see you at the end...........

HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY EVERYONE !! GO TITANS !!!!!!!

Then & Now

Remember Kathleen Turner? I saw her in a film the other day and for the longest could not figure out who she was! What a gorgeous woman she was then & now! No plastic surgery for her!






Last Spring our yard was so green but............

Tomorrow it may look like it did on December 11th last year! We are expecting 1-2 inches of Snow tonight! Yes, bloggers, it does Snow in South Mississippi! :)

Oh how pretty my Cannas were not so long ago.........

After the hard freeze last week..................:(

I cut the last of the Roses for my Thanksgiving Dinner table............

This is the Rose bed now............

Our wonderful Miss Trixie GoForth has kept us in eggs for the last few months laying 1 a day!

Now we are getting her 1 a day and 3 more from Miss Vicki, Madame Willow and Dottie Rambo !

Most of you know that Steve McNair was my favorite all time QB may he RIP ! I loved watching # 9 play ! Now, I have finally donned a new QB Jersey for # 10 Vince Young ! Once again I can enjoy watching my Titans play !

When I started cruising EBay to add to my China, I had no idea I would come close to being an EBay addict ! I have finished my Christmas shopping on EBay and got a few neat things for the home! I got this Lazy Susan which had several bidders...............

Cleaned it up and refinished it!

This wooden Bread Box was highly sought after also..............

Cleaned and refinished...........it's a beauty!

I got an e-mail from Author Sharyn McCrumb telling me she has asked her publisher to send me an ARC of " Faster Pastor " her new book with Co-Author/ NASCAR Driver Adam Edwards!

It will be released in April 2010. She included this picture of her and Adam and said;

" I should picture him as the main character Camber Berkley"

I really have a lot going on right now and need to be working in the greenhouse as I type! I'm trying to get around to all of you but it's kind of hard right now! Things should slow down next week for sure!!

Have A Great Weekend Everyone!

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! :)

Nature, An Artist At Work

A wonderful Artist has visited the South this morning, Nature ! The white paint is falling in big, wet drops. Making ordinary evergreens look like decorated Christmas Trees. The Oleanders have become ballet dancers bowing on a huge white stage, the road has become a memory. Our farm has been transferrred into an entirley different landscape.

The weather man was correct, the snow arrived ! An inch lays gracefully on everything in site
and it looks as though Mother Nature has no thoughts of quitting anytime soon. Isn't it amazing how quite everything gets when it snows? It's as though she places a finger to her lips and
whispers, "shush... I'm creating Magic"!
My sister-in-law in New Orleans called to say; her grandchildren are seeing Snow for the first
time. How delightful for children to see snow for the first time!
I made a huge pot of soup yesterday so I am content to sit, read and eat a bowl of hot soup later as I watch this artist at work. Life is so good today and I'm thrilled to be alive!