One of the most memorable Christmas’s of my life to-date, was observed in the middle of a cotton field a long time ago.
Following is that story, written and posted while with my eldest son and his family at their home in North Carolina, for this Christmas.
Carissa and Mandy, you might want to keep a [...]
Archive for December, 2008
A COTTON FIELD CHRISTMAS
Posted in A Christmas Story, Cotton Field Christmas, Family Christmas, Mississippi Christmas, chopping cotton, elderly care, love of family, sharecropper shack, tagged chopping cotton, Christmas Story, Cotton Field Christmas, doing without material things, Family Christmas, love of family, sharecropper shack on December 22, 2008 | 10 Comments »
TUESDAY MEME
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I hardly ever do this, but I’m going to post this meme that I stole from Ree at The Hotfessional, who stole it from Jesse at DaysGoBy.
Things you’ve already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven’t done and don’t want to – leave in plain font
1. Started your own blog. Yep.
2. Slept under [...]
NIGHT TRAIN FROM MOSCOW TO LENINGRAD
Posted in International air travel, Scandinavian farmers market, USSR history & history, University student tour, Visiting Helsinki Finland, student card games, tagged adding perspective of the world, Helsinki high school life, jet lag, Scandinavian farmers market, student bonding during a travel experience, student card games, trip packing list, University student tour, USSR History & travel, Visiting Helsinki Finland, world travel on December 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Author’s note: This post is the first of a several part series of stories about the author’s travel to the U.S.S.R. in April 1973, during the ‘Cold War,’ between the former ‘Soviet Union’ and the United States.
PART I: SCANDINAVIAN DELIGHT!
In the spring of 1973, just after I had graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus, [...]
BEER CAN BUCK & NOT ENOUGH BULLETS
Posted in Beer Can Buck, Wyoming deer hunting, guiding deer hunters, mule deer hunting, tagged Beer Can Buck, guiding deer hunters, mule deer hunting, Wyoming deer hunting on December 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In the mid-1970’s, when I worked on a large cattle ranch in northern Wyoming, one of my job duties there was to guide out-of-state deer hunters for the last six weeks of the year.
Mule deer bucks.
We would get hunters in from all over the United States, all wanting to shoot a big buck. And although [...]
A MISSISSIPPI THANKSGIVING: LONG DAYS, LITTLE SLEEP, LOTS OF LOVE!
Posted in 40-year old Chevy pickup, Carroll County Mississippi, Catfish Supper, Driving all night, Farm Implement Store, Holmes County Mississippi, Hook Cheese Company, Itta Bena Mississippi, Long Beach Mississippi, Mineral Point Wisconsin, Mississippi Thanksgiving, Samaritans Deeds Missions, Stoughton Wisconsin, Stoughton area Lutheran churches, Thanksgiving 2008, Thanksgiving mission, West Koshkonong Lutheran Church, repairing ceiling drywall, southern Wisconsin mission, wisconsin implement dealer, tagged Add new tag, Catfish Supper, Farmers implement Store Mineral point Wisconsin, helping others, helping out over Thanksgiving, Hook Cheese Company, mission workers, mississippi mission workers, wisconsin mission workers on December 1, 2008 | 12 Comments »
As Thanksgivings go, this one has been memorable, but kind of a blur.
Fast and furious, lots of people, faces, miles traveled, a little turkey, and catfish, and not much sleep.
For me, it all started Thanksgiving morning, when I left Long Beach, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, bound for I-55 north and the city of Grenada, [...]
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