I still have some of those Indian corn seeds around here somewhere! The squirrels loved what I planted. Also cannot think about grape Nehi's without thinking of you! (I thought grape Nehi was a thing invented for MASH. Then I got some in the mail!) Who knew!


Nothing but good thoughts for you and yours Mark.

We’re in Vegas now. Got to herf with Delta and Whistlebritches a couple of times as well as eat a couple of breakfast meals together. Delta is now back in California, Ron leaves tomorrow night. We leave early Saturday. Great trip so far!

Tried growing the corn you sent a few years ago but we didn’t get enough sun for it to flourish. Cotton might be interesting. 🤔

Thanks Brother, I think of you often

Sounds like a great time, safe travels to all.

As for the corn, Opel/Joel has down me proud and still has the Numi corn growing.

Unfortunately, the cotton I use for packing shipments is the GMO type and if you plant the seeds, they will make a plant, but won't grow any cotton since it's a hybrid. West TN is "home" of no-till planting and we now have an amaranth weed/Pigweed, that's resistant to RoundUp, and many of the fields that were planted in corn in the prior year will have clumps of "Franken-corn" that Roundup won't kill, so it grows in whatever is planted the following year!!!

Yeah, this is a problem everywhere anymore. "Just because you "can" do something, doesn't meant that you "should"."

Unintended consequences. They're everywhere. Like baby snakes.

Worse than snakes, Brother. I have always tried to keep a King snake/(Chicken Snake) in my outdoor sheds, or nearby. They eat other snakes and tend to leave people alone.


One of my college professor's many teachings/"prophecies" have come to fruition. The chemical companies were "buying up" all the plant biologists and he was a holdout. He wouldn't work for them and eventually was scorned out of teaching. He was telling us in 1982 that we would likely live to see bottles/cans of water for sale in vending machines, right beside sodas. As a plant geneticist in a new field, he was quite intelligent. If you notice, the chemical companies now are "umbrella" companies that own the chemicals and the GMO seeds. I try to grow and keep 'open pollinated" seed stock. Unfortunately, since our house fire and subsequent move to a house that's not on the farm property, I can't keep the critters from eating most of my crops!!! I've had problems with coyotes packing off my watermelons, deer descending on pea patches, just mowing them down by the acre, and even eating red okra?!?!?! Never witnessed that in almost 50 years of gardening! But, now I have, and when I fenced off a small spot for some purple hull peas, they got so enraged that they ate the freshly sprouted corn! Much has happened over the last few years. I've had to help my wife see how badly the farmer was doing her and her family for longer than I have known her. Not sure how long he and his now deceased father cropped the acreage of rented row crops. Over 15 years for sure. He's had around 30-35 acres in cotton on that property EVERY year except one since I met her in 2003!!!!! He was so angry about being "fired" that he didn't even spray the proper chemicals, If any at all this year! Not only skipping the glyphosate sprays, but also another chemical that forces the cotton to branch out instead of wanting to grow taller and put out more flowers, leading to low yields. I'm also dealing with trespassers, etc. Just part of the rural stupidity in some parts of this State.

I'm having to run back and forth from 7 miles away to keep an eye on things, adding game cameras and allowing a couple of people to hunt as well. More to keep other poachers off and cut back on the overpopulated deer around that farm! Never a dull moment around me, I guess I will be the azzhole in the situation, I do what I must to protect my family and properties.

Damn, Good luck my man.

Folks have no sense or right and wrong. Trespassing has always been a non-starter, I don't get it. 😞

I do agree, either you wuz raised right, or not, fairly simple!

glad to see you back here Numi...sorry those idiots are making life complicated, but you've always managed, regardless...

good thing you and your wife got rid of the thief who rented your farm...my wife's family finally sold their two farms in Illinois a couple years ago...the eldest son (her oldest uncle) who used to travel back to check on things passed away a few years ago and there wasn't any of the surviving kids who wanted to do it...

Early heads up.

"the sad" is so quick to reappear...

RIP Peyton

buck up, Numi!!!

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It's what I do, thanks Brother.


It will be six years in a couple of weeks, this weekend we're taking his little brother to the Gulf for his first beach trip. He turned 3 in May and is a BIG boy. He's gonna be taller than I was, hopefully I get to live to see that. He's got a good soul like his older Brother. Always wanting to help and the dogs love him just like they did Peyton.

Nice to hear Numi.
Hope to see you on the herf soon.
If I can ever make it on...

Next Sunday.

Glad you dropped in to post sir. God bless

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CH Las Calaveras EL2015 CG

In honor and memory of Peyton.

Next Monday.

I hate that this happened

RIP Peyton.