September ENDS

As always I should have loaded my pictures then done the typing, its just easier to do that, however once again I don't have time to rearrange everything.




Breakfast of champions, lol.

Will after his dad with a gummy worm.

Randy and Emma enjoying the ride withe the Alabama flag flying.

Attempting to feed the fish and making noise to try to get the gig carp to come see us.

Randy really enjoyed getting Will and Walker still enough to just hold . Dustin checked out every seat and view on the ride.

Emma got to be the 1st one to check out our bathroom, she will hate me one day for this, lol.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUSTIN AND JACY!!!

It was just too pretty and I wanted to show you.

I dd get the Halloween shirts made in time.

Even got these mailed to Eric's girls.

You know its been too long since you posted when you have to read the last post to know where to start. I know I will leave out lots of things just because I can't remember them now.

I have learned to make the trips to Vicksburg an adventure for me, I have been checking out various shopping areas and locating special stores, so that when I need things I know right where to go. This trip I located the Hancock Fabric store in Tuscaloosa and dang I just remember the 52% off sale ends tomorrow. I decided it is easier to shop at Hancock Fabric online and if you catch the sale and work it right no shipping charges. I don't shop for fabric often and rarely buy it unless its a 50% 0ff sale.

The trip to Vicksburg was to take Tyler for his stay awake study, which went really well. It will be another 10 days before he sees the Dr for the official results but I feel certain he will be allowed to get his drivers license. I was able to do a lil shopping when out getting him lunch. I picked up a beach towel at Bed Bath and Beyond and door bells at Lowe's. Neither of these stores are in Vburg or Jasper. I did not stay in Vburg for the Friday night game since it was going to be 2 hrs or more away and probably in the rain. I wanted to get back to Jasper on Friday to get ready for the weekend.

I was kinda disappointed that Pat has become an Alabama fan again, lol. It made for a boring game. I could not even get any Arkansas folks to pick back and forth on game day.... sigh. Oh well we Bama won and I guess Pat is an Ole Miss fan and I will just have to wait for that game. We had lots of piggy food for the game and were stuffed. We went to Randy and Glenda's after the game for a bday gathering for Dustin and Jacy and visit with Brandon and his children.

Sunday the weather was finally good enough for a pontoon ride and I was up early making the chocolate gravy and biscuits for the Myhand crew to join us and then go for the pontoon ride. It was a wonderful ride. We carried the kids to feed the fish and once again there were no fish to feed. I had hoped they would be there since the water level had come up so much. I know Dustin and Jacy think I don't know what I am talking about of these fish, lol since this is the 2nd trip they have gone on and no fish. There were a few small strippers and large brim but not the big carp that suck a baby bottle. We were back by 11 am and the rest of the day was just spent relaxing.

WE had started our concrete driveway last week but the rain put a stop to the work there so this week we are back to getting that done and with this gorgeous weather I think they will be finished before September ends.

Fall is here and the weather is just wonderful, I have so many things I wanna do during October. This is one of my favorite months and every other year we were in outage and I missed it. Hopefully I can do half of the things I have planned for this month. lol.

Accomplishments of the week!

This has been a good week for me. I spent 3 days at home (Alabama) and I mean I did not leave the house for anything... YEA ME!!! I made up for that on Friday when I made 3 trips over to Mom and Dad's, lol. I actually went over there to go with Dad to see his Dr and to get his medication straight. He had changed his mind and thinks he has it straight, so I took the time to do some things at their house that they had wanted help with. I may have been more help than they planned, lol. I am finding out more every day just how much I am needed here in Alabama. I think the time has come that I must attempt to go with them to the doctor visits if at all possible. There is just too much going on and too many medicines involved for them to be able to remember it all... so 2 sets of ears will help, hopefully. I had to make 2 trips back to the lakehouse while trying to do some cleaning there. The 1st trip was to take a look at the sidewalk layout that the workers had come up with to see if it was what I was talking about and it was. I went back to Moms to get help from Kyle and Randy on their lunch break moving a heavy desk. Its a lot easier to supervise the moving of something than it is to move it, lol. This is just the beginning of what I hope is going to make things simpler for my parents, just getting the house better organised, or at least where I can do things there to help out without spending so much effort searching for things. It's only a week until they go for the Fall fishing trip and I just want to keep them healthy so they can do that and spend some time with them as well. While I was there I got a chance to take some pictures of Dad with his tomato plants. He is so proud of them and honestly this is the only time I remember my dad having a garden, lol. Mom use to years ago and he might have helped stake some beans but never tend to a garden or claim it, lol. The main reason was he worked daylight til dark at least 6 days a week.

Below is a pic of the old living room rearranged for better enjoyment of all of us, since the extra dining table has been moved out. I think Mom will enjoy having a tv to use when Dad watches stuff she don't like. In fact Mom Randy and I sat there and had a really nice chat and it was quieter.

We should have our driveway and sidewalk completed by mid week, if the rain does not mess us up. I really think it will be a rainy week and will take all week.

The weekend has been good but rainy. The lake has come back up over the rocks. We enjoyed football all weekend and other than Arkansas our teams won. This next week will be a trying weekend for us... when ALABAMA and arkansas play. Its almost like the ALABAMA vs auburn game in our house. If the game is not intertainment enough, then the Keesee's are lol. We have all kinds of pig to eat on that day.

Mid September - Gunter Reunion - Baird Reunion

September has been busier than I thought it would be, so far. I was disappointed in Labor Day weekend and not really anything to tell other than we did not labor or ride the new pontoon due to the rainy weather. We have been trying to focus on some yard projects for the fall. I thought if I could get the stuff then Pat would work on some flower beds and landscaping stuff while I am off to Vicksburg at times. We disagreed so much on what to do and how to do it, then I decided to just do it my way... for about an hour then I realised we neither one could do what needed to be done ... so I called to get an estimate from a landscaping company. They came out and seemed very knowledgeable on what and how to do what needed to be done and WE BOTH quickly found out we knew nothing and the stuff I had bought was not even the stuff I needed, lol. So we finished a few things we had started even if they said we should use different stuff. We will be getting them back to do the front of the house when we can make up our mind just what to do.

I still have not been able to give Mom and Dad a ride on the pontoon... seems they are feeling bad when the weather is nice and feeling good when its rainy... go figure. We did take one ride on Labor day with Randy and Glenda and it was exciting to say the least... we let Kyle drive and he was doing a good job and ummm yea going faster than I wanted... can't believe I am actually saying that. Anyway the water patrol noticed us right off and that we did not have the registration numbers on out pontoon boat.. so we got pulled over and he checked us for all the required stuff, which we had, but Kyle did not have his license with him nor did I. We explained that we had just bought the boat and he asked when I had to say well I guess we have not officially bought t since we have not give the man money yet, lol. He was happy and just informed us to have DL on use when on the lake and noticed our Alabama shirts and boat and says Have a nice day and ROLL TIDE ROLL!!! We decided an ALABAMA flag is needed for the pontoon, lol.

This weekend has been busy with family reunions so I will post the pictures with comments as needed.

Below is the Baird Reunion which is being moved to the Farmers and Traders Bank at Curry so that will be a lot more convenient for most.


Jenna was the youngest member of the family there.

This was the only set of twins there,lol. Landon and ???

The women folks gather and visit in the kitchen area......

while the men folk visit in the dining area.

The Baird Family Reunion gang was smaller than normal due to illness of several.
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This is the beginning of flower bed work.

This is a rock garden by the front door... the shrub is to be moved.. and this Elephant seemed to be just what we needed in it. Sorry Auburn Fans.. Remember I am an Auburn Fan for every game except 1;

Oh this is Dad demonstrating the new recliners that Randy and I bought for him and Mom.... I assure you he loves his new recliner already.
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The Gunter Reunion which was held on Saturday.

Women preparing for the feast.

Cousins visiting after many years.

The men folk sitting out front greeting everyone that comes in.

Lots of Good food and good company what more can one ask for.

Tom and Harold are the brothers of my grandmother who passed years ago.

Hopefully things will settle down a bit and I will post more regular.... I know there is so much that gets left out if I don't post every week.