Hello! :) We had an wonderful trip and are very glad to be back home safely. Although I must admit I really miss seeing Trevor in the morning and having devotions with him. We got back home from our trip Saturday morning after driving through the night. :) Need I say that it was a rather long eight hours? I'm so glad we did that instead of taking up the whole day Saturday though!!!
Grandpa's house
Here is a short time line of our visit to the grandpa's nut farm :) ....
- On Tuesday we traveled most of the day and got caught up with everyone.
- Wednesday we had a thanksgiving lunch and the boys goofed off for a little bit.
- Thursday morning Adah, Lance, Trevor, and I headed out to do some shopping. :) We found some great sales on clothing and had a blast. After lunch we went to the beach. Later that evening we all gathered around the table for a loooong game of dominoes. :)
- After waking up tired on Friday, we gathered pecans off the forest floor. In the afternoon grandpa pulled the tractor out and revved up the tree shaker and shook a few pecan trees with it. Down fell some pecans, leaves, and half the tree limbs. And back to work we went.... Then we strenuously labored in the cotton field.
:) We were not the only visitors that were there. All of grandpa's brothers (He is the eldest of four boys) had come for thanksgiving. It had been a long time since we had seen some of them. And all of them have a teasing streak in them!!! :) It was so much fun having them there and listening to them talk about 'the good old days'!
Gifford (grandaddy), Jerry, Dewayne, and Hugh
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Behind the house is ten acres, a man (the son of the man he bought the land from) is leasing form Grandpa. He alternates between planting Cotton and potatoes there. :) This year it was Cotton and it looked beautiful!
The Cotton field
Before leaving Trevor strenuously labored trying to find the perfect pieces of cotton to pick and bring home to his Mom and Sister.
Looking out of the pecan trees toward the cotton
:) The orchard was a lot bigger than it looked. The camera could not take a picture wide enough for you to see, but there were rows and rows of more trees to the right. There is about 40 acres of pecan trees. It was fun walking through them with Trevor :) and Lance who was faithfully to quick tag along with us.
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:) Thanksgiving dinner was so good! :) We ate leftovers for the rest of the week.
Trevor and I at the table.
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After lunch Uncle Dwayne dared JEB to ride his bike backwards. JEB kept working on it till he got it down. He almost ran into several trees though. :)
The beach was really nice. The boys jumped right in and had a lot of fun. They found a jelly fish... It was really cool looking but I did not stick around long looking at it, knowing that JEB finds a great amount of joy in scaring people. I found some pretty sea shells I'm looking forward to putting to use. :) Time flies when you are having fun!!! :(
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The girls won!!!
We played girls against boys in dominoes... It was fun! Trevor and I were playing together so he was on the girls team... :) He was teased a lot for it. Adah kept offering advice on which dominoes my Uncles should play... And of course it was by accident she had seen them. As the game wore on it got a lot worse. :) It really started bugging Trevor. The game finally ended around 12:15. It was a blast! The ending score was 2864 for the girls and 386 to the boys.
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Picking up pecans was relaxing. (Except on the really humid days) Grandaddy has several different tools to pick them up with. It was a lot of fun trying them out.
Lance using the pinwheel pickerupper
Uncle Jerry hauling leaves and pecans after emptying out the pinwheel pickerupper.
Grandpa sorting through the nuts for the bad or cracked ones.
More sorting
This was cool to watch! Grandpa would push the nuts over the edge (there is a metal flap that is bent diagonally that you can't see in the picture that the pecans fell against) then the fan would blow all the bad ones out and the good ones would fall into the tub because they are heavier.
The tree shaker
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:) The trip was a blast!!! I'm so very glad we were able to go.
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Trevor's Place
:) It is looking more and more like a house every time I see it!!! It's really exciting to see how it is coming along. Sunday, Trevor and I had fun looking through paint colors for the outside... well at least I was really enjoying it. I hope he did too!
