HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH!

Happy 31st Birthday, Son!

I wish we could be with you today

We love you

We miss you

and

We are so proud of you

Uncle Josh's biggest fans

SAU Weekend

We spent the weekend at the Renaissance Marriott

in Florence

for the SAU vs UNA game Courtney trying to get Lawson out of the pool

Law loved the slide
The 1970 Football Team
and the Class of 1980
from UNA were having
reunions at the Hotel

Everyone had a hard time figuring us out
One trip down stairs
we would have on a
Alabama Crimson Tide shirt
and
the next trip a Southern Arkansas University shirt

There was the cutest group of 10-12 year old girls
at the pool
they gave Lawson a lot of attention
then another cute group of 14-16 year old girls
came to the pool
and
they paid
Lawson attention, also

Well
the older girls got out of the pool
while Lawson was in line for the slide
the girls got in the separate
hot tub
well
this little 3 year old
came down the slide
looked around for those girls
spotted them
and
took off running
and
jumped into the middle of the hot tub
with those girls
What a flirt!

We got to eat supper with the
SAU football team

Uncle Josh

Two peas in a pod!

Lawson cried when his

Uncle Josh

got on the team bus

and didn't take him
Big day for a little boy

He still just looks

like my

"Joshie"

to me

Everybody

knows how good

UNA
is

so

Josh

wasn't very happy

Another long day

Brady, Kim,

Emma, Abby and John Brady

came up Saturday

for the game

They met us at the hotel

and we watched

Alabama

and then went to the

SAU game that night

look for those pics to come

Penn State Weekend

ALABAMA vs PENN STATE

I wasn't going to miss this game

The Crimson Tide

Nick Saban

Penn State

and

Joe PaternoThe huddle in the middle of the field

Yep, Saban even had to smile
Saban
Bowden
and Peterno

The Million Dollar Band

September 11
Flag at half staff
I love that when the band starts playing
the National Anthem
I always sing along
softly and kind of timidly
but gradually people around you realize
that there are other people singing out loud
and by the end
everyone around you
will be singing
loudly and proudly!

The fly over

And

HERE THEY COME.......

Joe Pa

the Alabama fans

cheered for him

not sure why

so many helicopters

kept flying over

Oh my...

Joe Pa

wasn't too happy

Game over

Whew

We played good

We won

Joe Pa leaving

Hope to see you in

Happy Valley

next year!

Look What I Found

If you live in Berry

or

have ever lived in Berry

then I bet you bought something at

Cannon's

and had it wrapped in this paper What do
I think of when I think of Cannon's
The wood floors
rubbed shiny and smooth over the years
The cool breeze that always seem to blow through
the un air conditioned store
and
Cooter
and of course
my Sue
and
Mr. Pulliam
and
Lavonne's Mother
What do you think of?

Labor Day

The Last Swim

We had our last day at the pool

Labor Day

and

the water was cold

We had a wasp nest under the slide

wasps are always making a nest there

but

John checks regularly and had just

removed a nest

Lawson went down the slide

and

got wasp stung 4 times

Bless his little heart

it's a good thing that he isn't allergic to bees like he is food

Brady picked up the leaf dipper and

started swatting the wasps away from Lawson

the kids love to play

grocery store

in the pool house

Goodbye to another swimming season

even if it isn't good bye to

the hot weather

Look What I Found

Minor High School Graduation 1971

Karen Waldrop and Debbie Bice

Ralph Jernigan and Debbie Bice

Donna Jones

In front of our beloved

Band Room

Did you notice the cars?

Look What I Found

John

in front of my house in

Merrywood Estates

with his

1966 Chevy II

Yep

that's the boy I fell in love with

Joy

inside my house

with the roses John sent me

In my

Minor High School
Concert Band uniform


Minor High School
Marching Band uniform

A blog post idea

I have been in a clean up and clean out mood

Now

I clean my house regularly

just in case you may think we

are sitting in a dirty house

but

clean out

that would mean throw things away

I don't get in that mood very often

John would say that

I am a

Hoarder

I don't think so

If you come in my house

my closets and my pantry may be full

but they are

presentable

and

I would even let you look

My problem

is

I have two huge

outdoor storage buildings

and yes

I look like a

hoarder

if you look in them

what do I tell myself

about these buildings

we might need this

what if one of the kids need this

what if it quits working and we need the box to carry it back

it has so many memories

it was my mother's

we got this at our wedding shower

Well

when it gets really crowded

I finally get in a throwing out mood

and I am there

also

I have a ton of my mother's things

that I now need to go through

so

if

John has asked you to be on his

hoarders intervention team

you are off the hook

I have already found several things

I want to share

a lot of old pictures

and more

So

when the title says

Look What I Found

you will know what it is

Here is a funny about my storage buildings

I jokingly told my children

not to make fun of my storage buildings

because

it was their inheritance

Brady replied

Courtney and Josh can have the contents

I want the building

so there you go!

I am having a terrible time getting

pictures to upload to Blogger

I have been uploading the pics at Brady and Kim's

and then writing the story and publishing at home

hope I get something to upload soon

Peck A Day

Labor Day weekend

Courtney, Dave and Lawson

were visiting Berry

Lawson has had a fascination with

waterfalls for the last year

Most of the waterfalls that Lawson

comes in contact with are man made

He has seen a few real waterfalls

and been very impressed

We had mentioned several times

that there was a waterfall in Berry

Courtney had been to it at least two

times but she did not remember it

We decided Sunday afternoon to try to find

Peck A Day

it had been "many" years since we

had gone on the adventure of

Peck A Day

1st

we had to get Courtney and Dave

"suited up"

They only came prepared for church and swimming

We found a pair of Josh's cleats

from his high school baseball days

found a pair of John's "over the calf" boot socks

(for ticks and briers)

and Dave got suited up

Then....Courtney went hunting in

the closet in her room

and

found her once very fashionable

Columbia hiking boots

I got her a pair of socks

and she got suited up

Courtney looked especially fashionable

wearing her socks and hiking boots with

her leggings

So we took out to try and find Peck A Day

The county had reworked the roads and several

gas wells made everything look so

different

After a very pretty drive

through the "forest"

as Lawson calls it

where we saw deer and turkey

John and I thought we recognized the spot

to go into the woods for the hike to the waterfall

John told us to wait while he found

the trail

No need in us all going

Well

we waited

and waited

it was hot

it was getting hotter

we decided to get back into the truck

WHAT

John had locked the truck

WHY

he doesn't lock the truck at home

we were really hot

we found a spot in the edge

of the woods

it was a little cooler

time was passing

no John

I yelled for John several times

Lawson kept leaning forward

putting his hands to his mouth

and yelling

POP!

Dave whistled for John

Lawson tried whistling for Pop

funny

Okay

I was getting a little worried

Time passed

still no John

my statement

He better not have gotten off

in the woods and fell

guess what

none of us had our phones

THEY

were locked up in the truck

So

I told Courtney and Dave

very seriously

that

if we had to go walk

to get help

that

we were all putting our clothes together

to make one person

not look like

a big ole

redneck

But

behold

here comes John

we were at the wrong place

We went down the road

about a half mile

and

we were at the right place

and John found the path quickly

but we stayed in the truck

with

the air conditioner

until

he found the trail

So

off we went

it is a little tricky at a few spots

but Law man

though it was a great adventure

The waterfall was the smallest

I have ever seen it

but

it had not rained here

in a while

Lawson

was pretty impressed

A little

Peck A Day

history

According to what I have always been told

there was a grist mill

up stream from the falls

owned by the town's doctor

Dr. Wright

The mill could do about a

peck of corn a day

so

it has always been called

Peck A Day

My next adventure

I want to go above the fall

and see if any thing remains

of the grist mill