" HOLY COW - I MEAN HEN ! "

We had some real excitement around here yesterday! Nope, we didn't see this! We saw something better! Miss Trixie GoLay lived up to her name and labored away to give us our first egg on Labor Day!



Hubby decides through trial and error of watching the show that the coop needed some renovations. He lowered the nest boxes, put a roof over them and built a ladder to them.

There she is..........Miss America, I mean Miss Trix getting ready to show out! Yep! That's Madame Willow taking a lesson in laying!

OOPS! Here comes another Chick Student!

Well......if everybody else is going to roost mid-day so am I !

And....then there were three girls trying to figure out what in tar nation is going on???

Even Ole Oscar is thinking what a short day this was!! That's Queen Vicki on the ground trying to decide do I or don't I go up?

Well, she sat there and sat there till the others said; "to heck with this" and got down......then she scrunched way down.......

Then all of a sudden, she raised up and "blew" up like a balloon!

Then she started cackling!! OMG! The other girls froze like statues! The Rooster started cackling with her as loud as he could! The dogs, who were in the fence went crazy thinking someone was killing me I guess! LOL! It was a Circus!

Trixie got down and we rushed to look! THERE IT WAS! OUR FIRST EGG! Clean as a whistle

and perty as a picture!

Now I got several e-mails yesterday about Trixie GoLays name! It was real easy to come up with! Miss Trixie is the namesake of one of my favorite people! Miz Trixie GoForth whose fame has spread far and wide via FaceBook! She also has a blog called Pure T. Gossip With Trixie

where she sometimes post. Miz Trixie is the alter ego of one very creative and talented author Sherry Austin whose wonderful book "Days Between The Years" chronicles Miz Trixie's life!

This is Miz Trixie now at age 83 !

Here we see just what a young and desirable beauty she was LONG ago!

Not long ago, she died and went to Heaven but she was able to escape after a few weeks because St. Peter did not feel she had sinned enough! (Now that was a real joke) While there, she could look like different stages in her life. Here she meets up with an old Beau and they look just like they did when they were sweethearts! ( Don't we hope) So now you know where Miss Trixie GoLay got the wonderful named she lived up to immediately! HA!

This is my little herb garden...............It also has a Red and a Yellow Bell Pepper plant in it but they are taking their sweet time about turning!

This was the bed where we grew almost 200 pounds of tomatoes off 6 plants! I cleaned it out yesterday so I can plant 3 kinds of lettuce and a cherry tomato plant in it! Which I'm going to do right now! I have to take my Dad to the Doctor in a little while so I'll see you guys later!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE !!!! :)

" IT'S BLOOM'N HOT IN MISSISSIPPI "

WOW! It is hot, hot hot, in South Mississippi! The heat index
was 104 yesterday with a temp of 100! We have not had a drop
of rain since June 4th and NONE is in the forecast! We are defiantly
in a heatwave!


We have been so busy all week. I haven't had time to post but
I have visited most of your blogs and tried to comment!







It is ice-cream weather for sure but I have not been able to
find my favorite flavor so far. This won a Blue Bell contest last
year and is the BEST flavor I've ever tasted! The lady whose
recipe won was from South Carolina!Click on the picture and read
all about it!






A woman from Navarre Beach, Florida contacted me after
coming on my blog. Her name is Linda, here with her husband.
She's my cousin! Her mother was an O'Gwynn and our great,
great grandfather's were brothers! This blogging world is really
something! I am ecstatic to have learned about her!

Hubby and I have been discussing for sometime about

getting an extra refrigerator to put in the garage. Our

side by side just doesn't have enough space. Especially

this time of year with all the fresh veggies coming in. I

had told him during morning coffee on Thursday I wish I

could find one of those smaller 10 cubic feet ones they used

to put in apartments. I had a dentist appointment that morning

so afterwards I went by Home Depot to check their garden center

for flower markdowns. you know how I like a bargain! When I

came out of the GC, I took a left and went down the receiving isle.

I wasn't supposed to be there but sometimes things happen!

Look what a wrong turn led me to! A 10 cf. Magic Chef fridge!

A scratch & dent item marked down from $ 379.00 to $ 189.00.

I ended up getting it for $ 150.00!!

I couldn't wait to start putting the goodies in it! I don't know why

this picture looks crooked, I promise it doesn't lean!

As I said; it's bloom'n hot here and we have to water everyday!

We have community water in the house but we put down a well

that is used to water flowers, refresh the pond, run the fountain

in the pond and I also use it for coffee, tea and some cooking.

Since we water so much, everything is bloom'n great!

Yellow Roses! Did you know they mean friendship?

Yellow Tropical Hibiscus................

Orange/yellow Lantana.................

Another view of orange/yellow lantana............

The Hummingbirds love the Mystery Plant blooms.....

I love how big the Elephants Ears are getting!

This is the Mint Vicki Lane gave me in Flat Rock!

Tell me again Vicki the name so I can write it down?

I call it Mountain Mint...............

A Castor Bean plant from a friend......................

Pink/yellow/blue Lantana...............

A baby Hibiscus by the pond has a single bloom on it!

Marigolds in the pepper bed................

Remember the Weeping Hibiscus I got in Natchez?

It has 12 new blooms ready to show out!

I have watched this open nearly all the way while I loaded these pictures!

This is absolutely my favorite flower!!

A Red Mandavillia in full bloom................

Marigolds in the cucumber bed..............

The big Hibiscus overflows into the Lantana...........

Mexican Petunias...................

Foxglove from which I gathered a handful of seed.......

The Hummers feed right out side my Writers Porch window!

IT'S Hot and I NEED NECTAR................

A Spider Web by the tractor shed...................

Charlotte wasn't allowing her picture to be taken!

Well......it's happening, tomatoes are everywhere!

Here..........

I'm knee deep in veggies still.............

More tomatoes here!

Poor Sadie Boo cools that big belly full of pups on the tile!

Due date.........June 24th! Jake guards her every move!

The Hummingbird Vine is getting close to the top!

And bloom'n...........

The pond fountain at least makes it seem cooler......

There was a Hummer on it, but I wasn't fast enough!

If I get too hot today, I may jump in!!!

The cattle know the score, last one in's a rotten egg!

Cleome in the St. Francis bed...........

St. Francis is knee deep in flowers...............

Purple Verbena............

Pink Verbena...............

Red Verbena and weeds that it's too hot to pull.................

Both of the Peach Double Bloom Hibiscus

are huge and full of blooms.............

The Cigar Bush is showing out big time!

So is this Pink Crape Myrtle..............

as is this white Rose of Sharon..........

The Morning Glory has started Bloom'n too!

Have a great weekend everyone and stay cool !!!