happy

hall0ween.

spring flowers

It is nice to remember sun shine and growing things from the spring when the winds of winter are coming closer every day.

molt

Only one brown egg yesterday. It will be time for the red hens to molt soon and the brown eggs will be scarce. The good news was I got 4 blue/green eggs. Janet has people who want to buy the blue eggs only! The chuickens that laid the first time this spring will molt and loose a lot of feathers . production falls off then begines to pick up in January for another year. By the way they grow new feathers and have a nice warm coat for winter.

This is a nutural occurance that happens every fall. I wonder if the wild birds molt?

I am going to town when Janet gets up to take me.

Sing me a song

Nicanor Romero Perez, age 75, of Green Forest, AR passed away on September 27, 2010.

This fellow worked in d bone while I was doing QA work on the night shift. He had the most booming lovely singing voice it has been my joy to hear and he would sing to me at least once a night. He sang in Spanish and all the Spanish speaking people had a merry time on the joke they perceived on me but I was pretty sure he was singing me "LOVE SONGS" which was fine because I love the sound of his voice now he was very loud and one night a supervisor name Jose Martinez took him aside and talked to him and he never sang for me again.
One more reason I didn't like supervisors.
If Mr. Perez is sings around the throne of God today they are being treated to some beautiful singing.

politidal campaign on the dark side

WASHINGTON (AP) - With just days to go before the election, here come the kids.
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio's children think their dad is a great guy. In Colorado, Sen. Michael Bennet's daughters are so enthused they're hitting the phones to support their dad.
Candidates who have spent months and millions of dollars slugging it out are replacing attacks ads with gauzy images designed to leave voters with a warm and fuzzy feeling. And what better way to do that than with children?

This not the case of a fellow named John Mantooth his children have place this 1/2 page ad in the newspaper saying their father is not a good father or grandfather and would not be a good judge. Talking about the chickens coming home to roost his did and brought the turkeys too.

joy unspeakable

May you always be as happy as you are in this photo.

old Reeves photo

I found this photo on a genealogy site in Oklahoma. The young men are Sam and Jim Reeves. I have been trying to place the name Reeves seems like someone named Reeves had a store of some kind in Green forest Arkansas. Notice the A.E. Graha that probably is Graham is that the name of the owner of the Graham grocery store in Green Forest for so many years?

Helen thinks I think the government is spying on our blogs, they could if they wanted, not sure that they would be interested in ours tho' the add that popped up on Helen is google . I get those adds all the time. Helen was talking about funerals and google took note of that and the add popped up when she published the post. google wants to sell you something, Helen even if you are dead.

Seek and you will fine... in the Green Forest tribune date December 28, 1899 is this add... Phonographs satisfaction guaranteed , A.E. Graham

mice brain

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains,” she asserted on “The O’Reilly Factor during a “Culture War” segment in the wake of news reports about the first monkey being cloned. “So they’re already into this experiment.” I agree and Christina O'Donnell is the first.

freedom and death drug

The guineas are dreaming of freedom.

Would you believe that if you live in Arizona and you are sentenced to die by the state the junk they shoot into your veins to kill you is bought over seas. That's right Arizona is going to put someone to death and they had to buy the drug to do the job from across the waters in England because we don't manufacture it here in this country.

Seems like we could start making the stuff here that would create a few job for the unemployed. can't you see some one running for president with the promise " send me to the white house I will make the death drug plentiful or perhaps the governor calls to the prison granting a stay of execution when ask why she did so stated the shipment of the death drug was delayed.

My sister live in the sunshine state and she is currently under going kemo treatment for cancer perhaps she could suggest one of her kemo drugs that would work.

Son has a police scanner in his room, I just heard a call saying "Just drove by Bob Txxxxx's house and a trailer is setting in the street in such a manner to suggest maybe a robbery in progress or a failed attempt". I went to school with Bob and I thought No he was probably drunk.

I heard that Bob went to the Philippines a few years back because he heard that he might get a Philippine bride but the deal fell thought when Bob learned she wanted him to pay her air fare to the states.

He did find a bride across the waters finally and brought her home, the shy maiden was driving his new Cadillac when she ran a red light and was rammed in the side by a old chevy. Bob ask her why she ran the red light she said I thought that was my color. That's all folks.

Maria

the youngest keets have found a way to hide from the bigger guineas and so I put a feed pan in there for them to eat their fill.

The blue/green eggs arriving regularly in the nest and this morning I found one on the ground I guess it took her by surprise. I am going to send this carton to a lady in evis, Janet is working there this week. This woman was there when I worked in evis. Her name is Maria something Clayton knows her last name but I can never remember the name. Maria is Hispanic and speaks very little English. She has a large no. of children and I would give her eggs when I worked at Tyson, when she sees my daughter she says tell Pepsi I love her we know that means Maria wants eggs.

The Hispanic people can't pronounce my name and they call me Pepsi many of them any way I have always thought it was people from the same area in Mexico who pronounced my name that way because some of the Hispanic pronounce it with out a problem and other could never get it right no mater how many times I tried to tell them my name so I am Pepsi to many at work better than being called coke or kook.

timothy, tim , timmy

Helen had me change me blog so she could comment as anonymous , now I knew better. I had a comment today from someone as anonymous who signed TIM , He objected to my post about Hannity but since if he has a blog I can't go over and visit with him on his blog if he has one.
so no more anonymous comments. I like a good scrap but not if you wont come out where I can see you Timmy.
further more why would you think I would promote anyone, I don't put up anyone . If you have the same views as Hannity fine, I suppose you like O'Reilly also and don't forget that loud mouth on the radio, what his name? oh, yeah Rush Limbaugh the druggy.

4 green/blue eggs

4 Easter egger pullets laid today.I Have 10 Easter eggers pullets. soon they should be laying.

jeri askins vs Mary Fallin

This is just to good to pass, in Oklahoma we have a race for governor in which one candidate is using the fact that she is divorced and married to a divorced man and the fact that they have 6 children between them as a advantage for the governorship instead a the other candidate who is unmarried and has no children.
At rallies and other appearances, opponent Rep. Mary Fallin, 55, a Republican congressman, regularly mentions her new husband and their combined six children. Fallin, who had two children from a previous marriage, married a divorced father of four in November. She says her family and her experience as a businesswoman and officeholder have made her most qualified to be governor .
Only a Republican would claim that the lack of birth control make her a better candidate for office or how about divorce as a good trait.
No doubt Mary is hinting maybe just maybe JERI is a closet lesbian.

stephen Broden

WASHINGTON – Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.
OK when you go to vote and your candidate doesn't win this fellow thinks we can just overthrow the government. Oh, for the good ole days when we only had Sarah out there on the stump.
Looks like rain here.

don't call, yell

I have this on good authority if you want to talk to Fleta in the next 4 days you have to call Clayton tell him to go out in the back yard and yell of course Clayton is yard sailing so all hope is gone with the wind or is that saleing? The shadow knows!

More tea party

to call for the violent overthrow of a government is this not treason?

WASHINGTON – Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.
In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table." That drew a quick denunciation from the head of the Dallas County GOP, who called the remarks "inappropriate."
Broden, a first-time candidate, is challenging veteran incumbent Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas' heavily Democratic 30th Congressional District. Johnson's campaign declined to comment on Broden.
In the interview, Brad Watson, political reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8), asked Broden about a tea party event last year in Fort Worth in which he described the nation's government as tyrannical.
"We have a constitutional remedy," Broden said then. "And the Framers say if that don't work, revolution."
Watson asked if his definition of revolution included violent overthrow of the government. In a prolonged back-and-forth, Broden at first declined to explicitly address insurrection, saying the first way to deal with a repressive government is to "alter it or abolish it."
"If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary," Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain's King George III.

you weep as we reap

Days before he was going to harvest his plot of potatoes at the Longview Community Garden, Fred Hanson discovered thieves had beaten him to it.
At least half of his 200 potato plants — German buttterballs, Yukon golds, yellow finns — had been ripped from the ground, stripped of their tubers and tossed in a heap, said Hanson, a teacher at St. Helens Elementary School who shares his produce with family, friends, elderly neighbors and the needy.
"It's maddening to work hard for many months, and then people just take things," he said Thursday.
His crops aren't the only ones recently targeted at the 3-acre garden on 32nd Avenue, where people have been renting plot space from the city since the 1970s. Other gardeners say not only have more thieves hit the garden this year, they've also been more brazen, stealing in daylight in front of gardeners who can't do much more than yell at them.
While tending her plot recently, Longview resident Bernice Hillebrand saw two young blonde strangers with a young child taking armloads of corn from a nearby garden. When she asked the women what they were doing, they sped off in a small, older green car.

tea and trouble

Palin country.....

One of the more disturbing election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private "guards" working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to answer. This photograph shows the journalist, Alaska Dispatch's Tony Hopfinger, handcuffed in a chair, surrounded by Miller's guards. This story became much worse yesterday when video was released that was taken by a reporter from the Anchorage Daily News showing that these guards thuggishly threatened at least two other reporters, from ADN, with physical detention as they tried to find out what happened, demanded that they leave or else "be handcuffed," and physically blocked them from filming the incident all while threatening to physically remove them from the event, which was advertised to the public (see video below).But revelations today have made the story much, much worse still. ADN now reports that not only was Joe Miller's excuse for why he had hired private guards a lie, but two of the guards who handcuffed the journalist and threatened others are active-duty soldiers in the U.S. military:

NPR country....
NPR announced late on Wednesday night that it has terminated the contract of longtime analyst Juan Williams over his comments on Fox News that, when he is on a plane with Muslims, "I get nervous." NPR's media reporter David Folkenflik broke the news on Twitter. Williams' comments came during a discussion with Bill O'Reilly on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly asked Williams if he had been in the wrong during his now-infamous appearance on "The View" last week. (There, O'Reilly's statement that "Muslims killed us on 9/11" caused Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to walk off the set in anger.) Williams replied that he thought O'Reilly had, in fact, been right.

Tea party not
Karl Denninger, an original organizer of the Tea Party, is out with a livid blog post blasting current leaders of the conservative movement and the apparent hypocrisy in their views of the economic issues that originally catalyzed its creation.
According to Denninger, "Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and douchebag groups such as the Tea Party Patriots" are to blame for the bastardization of a movement that now seems focused on "Guns, gays, God," instead of the Tea Party's original mission: to castigate the federal government for supporting the "rampant theft" of taxpayer dollars that went toward

Tea party

for your halloween enjoyment

The tea party has offered up some of the strangest candidates this season, bare in mind Rand Paul but this O'Donnell woman has them all beat, she is strange.

It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust.


"God may choose to heal someone from cancer, yet that person still has a great deal of medical bills. The outstanding bills do not determine whether or not the patient has been healed by God."

Blast from the past

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.
In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times.

Anita hill , now doesn't that bring back memories? seems his wife wants Hill to say she is sorry and she lied, are you kidding lady of course she told the truth.
most men are lecherous and Thomas is probably still practicing his craft 20 years later or at least trying.

Judge

Rooster

Sammy went to his friend Tony Briley and he gave me a Easter Egger rooster. I have him in a pen in the chicken pen and I will let him go free in a few days.

escapee

I went out in the afternoon and one of my lavender guineas was out of the pen . I walked around and around the pen trying to catch her. I say her because she flew to the top of the pen and called pot-rack that is the sound of the female guinea.

I came back in and daughter came out to help me and we managed to open the pen and she flew in but another flew out. This Young fellow flew on top of the coup and starting yelling chi- chi-chi and that meant this was a male. I have decided the first group has 2 females and 5 males so I am not very proud of any of the younger guineas that are males. I had this stick in my hand and I struck at the youngster and he went into the pen right away. I guess that keat knew I meant business.

We had rain last night and the temperature is only suppose to get to 60 degrees. It is 57 degrees now at 8 O'clock.

flowers blooming

The flowers in the yard are still blooming.

jerk

Finally someone is getting some balls and has told these jerks to back off. the owner of the sign was hiding his ID but he was found out and he was threaten of course the jerk wimped out when he had to face his actions and could no longer hide behind his sign.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A billboard in western Colorado that uses caricatures to depict President Barack Obama as a terrorist, gangster, Mexican bandit and a gay man has drawn bipartisan scorn from political officials. The sign was removed.
They put up this crap and whine about their rights and then when we the people get a gut full they say oh, it is a caricature. sure and you are a liar, bigot and all around jerk.

where has she gone?

Where o' where did Jo
GO?
she must be fishn'
Do you suppose
she gone huntin'
perhaps for a possum
to make from his pouch
a pair of mittens
for her kittens?
where o' where is
our Winnie Jo?

wake up before it is too late

This is the statement that president Obama made to the conn. voter. perhaps he was trying to be funny but he should realize that some things are simply not funny to some of us.
...Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get -- to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an historic health care bill passed -- oh, well, the public option wasn’t there. If you get the financial reform bill passed -- then, well, I don't know about this particularly derivatives rule, I'm not sure that I'm satisfied with that. And gosh, we haven’t yet brought about world peace and -- (laughter.)
There seems to be a disconnect between Obana and his supports, or perhaps it is his speech writers.
To me it seems more and more likely that obama will be a one term president and I am beginning to think this is what he wants.

When health insurance Co. are raising their rates 47% when the price for health insurance is more Than we can pay , and the health insurance bill says the alternate is a fine by the way the fine is less than the premium . does he not see how we should have a public option. The two wars go merrily on in the face of we the people telling him again and again enough already!

How does he expect the voters to go to the polls and pull the lever for him again in 2012?

Jerusalem - The Hoppers

I just finished a hour listening to the hoppers on the Gaiters program.

Kim is the daughter in law of Connie and Claude hopper , wife to dean Hopper on the program she said the song Jersalem was sent to her and when she heard it she knew that it had to be a joint effort by the group.

Kim said when she played the tape when the drums started Connie Hopper started cry and Kim said when Connie cries we know that the song is a good one.

possom in a persimmon tree

There two things that go hand and hand in the Ozarks hill when the temperature begins to drop in the late fall and that is Persimmons and Opossums. Opossums are often found in a persimmons trees in the fall of the year.
We ate persimmons when we were children after the frost had sweeten the fruit but we never ate opossum because Dad said that the animal was famous for feasting on dead animals and was not fit for food. I have read that people who have tried to eat this animal that is very greasy meat but as I said I have no personal knowledge of the opossum as food.
During the depression my father hunted the opossum for it fur which he would stretch on a board and then sold for cash. This animal was one of the few that was plentiful during the hungry years. my children have hunted the raccoon and have avoid hunting the opossum the thinking being that a coon dog that would tree a opossum was not a good dog.
If you bite into a piece of fruit that looks like an orange tomato and your lips pucker because of the bitter taste, you may be chewing on an unripe persimmon. Your reaction would be similar to that of the early settlers of North America.
Those settlers found persimmons inedible until the Native Americans told them the fruit would not be ready to eat until the first frost. The settlers assumed this meant the frost was necessary to improve the taste, but the natives meant the fruit should be left on the tree well into October when it was ripe enough to eat.
A odd thing that we knew as children was if you open the seed of a persimmon fruit there would be small white things in the seeds and some would be shaped like a knife and others had the look of a spoon. We believed that what we saw in the seed meant whether we would have a bad winter or a mild winter. I have forgot which was a sign of a mild winter was it a spoon or a knife?
The persimmon native to North America is Diospyros virginiana that the Algonquin Indians called putchamin, pasiminan, or pessamin, depending on the dialect of the tribe. This persimmon was small, seedy and had an unpleasant taste when eaten before it was ripe. This astringent quality is caused by tannin present in the fruit when it is not completely ripe. Diospyros virginiana was quite different from the persimmons we see in the markets today. It was the size of a grape and had to be left on the tree into the winter.
Growing wild, it varied in quality from tree to tree. Hernando de Soto and his conquistadors found the Native Americans eating bread made from what they called "prunes." The loaves they were fed were formed from dried persimmons.
The settlers of Jamestown described persimmons as "very sweet and pleasant to the taste, and yields on distillation, after fermentation, a quality of spirits." When Captain John Smith was not busy with Pocahontas, he is quoted as saying, "If it be not ripe it will drawe a mans mouth awrie with much torment; but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an Apricock."

opossum , name for several marsupials , or pouched mammals, of the family Didelphidae, native to Central and South America, with one species extending N to the United States. With the exception of an obscure group found in South American forests, opossums are the only living marsupials outside the Australia-New Guinea region. Extremely abundant despite the encroachment of civilization and apparently little changed over millions of years, they owe their success to their adaptability, omnivorous diet, and rapid reproductive rate. Opossums are more or less arboreal, nocturnal animals, with long noses, naked ears, prehensile tails, and opposable hind toes tipped with flat pads. They eat small animals, eggs, insects, and fruit. The common, or Virginia, opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, ranges from Argentina to the N United States; it is found mostly in wooded areas and is common in the SE

a man and his word

Benjamin Arthur Ratzlaff (10/08/10)Benjamin Arthur Ratzlaff, a resident of Green Forest, AR, was born November 28, 1941 in Emporia, KS, a son of Arthur Everett and Velma Doris (Carter) Ratzlaff. He departed this life Monday, October 4, 2010 in Springfield, MO, at the age of 68. Ben served his country in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was a member of the Yell Masonic Lodge #64 and VFW. Ben worked as a cattle and poultry farmer...
A man is only as good as his word and Benny was as good as his word everyone say amen.
My 49 year old son has worked for Benny for 25 years raising turkeys and Benny had told my son that when he died Tony would get the house he lives in and 5 acres of land. Tony had never doubted the fact but I am a very pessimist and I think talk is cheap.
Benny's wife told Tony that the house and 5 acres was his. I had worried more afraid that Tony would have to hunt a job which would never be as good a job as he had.
Today Nancy told Tony if he would raise turkeys for her until she died she would give him 13 and 1/2 acres that lay right below the house now the good news for me is Tony wont have to go to work at somewhere like Tyson foods and I hope Nancy lives for ever.

flour sacks and iron tired wagons.

I found this photo on the net and I liked it because it is like the one we had on the farm for years. If you never rode in an iron tired wagon you have missed some very jarring times. daddy converted our wagon to rubber tires in the 50's and boy this was a great ride we thought we were up town then .

He took the iron tires off and what happen to them you might ask, well aunt Winnie was visiting and she expressed a desire for them for yard decorations so daddy gave the 4 to her. They went to Saint Louis and perhaps Winnie Jo could tell us if she remembers seeing them?

There was a time that if our family went some where we had to travel in the wagon . most of the time if a trip was made to the store daddy would ride horse back and he tied the groceries on behind him in a flour sack.

Speaking of flour sacks in the 50's they started putting 50's pounds of flour in print bags. My grandma Powell would take our flower sacks and make me dresses. My under pants were made from flour sacks for years. For a time feed was in the print bags and we could get material to make clothing for larger folk.

I went on a google search and actually found photos and a blog about printed feed sacks. If you want to take a look at the blog just click on the title in the mean time I have commandeered one of her photos for you to enjoy, for those of you not in the know the label was paper and you peeled it off so that you had the cloth to make your garments.