Networking With Business Cards & Pamphlets

Here's a collection of pamphlets and business cards while networking at the Warren County Wildlife Extravaganza which was held this past Saturday, March 17, 2012.  I was very impressed with the wildlife event and it will be held again next year.  Check over the pamphlets and cards and visit the sites for more info on their products.  You may find something that just might interest you! (Click on each for better viewing)

https://www.facebook.com/rex.holmesjr 

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Fun Wild Time

Yesterday, Bob and I attended the very first Warren County Wildlife Extravaganza hosted by the Warren County Baptist Association at the Vicksburg Convention Center.  It was a great success!

It brought back memories for me to enter the convention center again because I was one of the first employees to moved into the building after it was constructed approximately 12 years ago.  It was a great part-time job after retiring from the Corps of Engineers after 25 years service.

I was very pleased to see such a great turnout for this wildlife event.  My husband and I usually have to go out-of-town to attend an event like this and was refreshing to have it here in our hometown which was free to the public.  Seminars were also held on Wildlife Habitat Management, Area Lake Fishing Strategies, Snake Species of MS and Feral Hog Management, throughout the day.  Bluegrass and Church music also entertained.

The Bowfishing Association of Mississippi let children to try their hand at bowfishing to promote the 2012 Youth Tournament that will be at Eagle Lake Public Boat Landing on June 16.

A guest speaker put the finishing touches on the event and after his presentation a Mathew's Z7 and Mathew's Genesis Bows were given away and you had to be present to win.  I was really lucky to win a free oil change up to $35.00 from George Carr dealership from where we had purchased our GMC Sierra truck.  Below are some pictures I took while walking around the wildlife show.

Vicksburg Convention Center

Bob checking out Delta Outfitters display booth which is located Hwy 61North bypass.

One of many deer mounts.

All kinds of farm and hunting vehicles.

Bob talking to a knife maker, Bill Mangum of Handmade Custom Knives.

mangum.bill@yahoo.com

Bobcat

Never seen a giraffe mount before.

This lion was taken here in Mississippi in a sanctuary that is now closed.

Red Fox

A nice zebra mount.

Superior Outdoor Supply LLC of Bay Springs, MS

S.O.S.

"Hi-Rise Hunter"

Troy Davis

601.214.9880

www.superioroutdoorsupply.com

(Be sure and check out their video)

Ducks flying in the convention center.

Bob with Smokey the Bear!  

Little Charlie, with a painted deer on his face, will soon be a member of the Love Family.  His mom, Cassie Jo, will marry my nephew, Marion "Bubba" Love, III, next month. at the Old Court House Museum.

In Memory of My Mother

February 11, 1921 ~ March 17, 1979

A Very First Time Event

My husband and I are looking forward to going to the "very first time" event in Vicksburg of the Warren County Wildlife Extravaganza.  It will be held at the Vicksburg Convention Center from 10:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., tomorrow and hosted by the Warren County Baptist Association.  We have been to many shows in Jackson and Natchez areas and looking forward to going to this one right here at home.   Featured speaker will be Doug Payne of Buck Creek Outfitters.  Two bows, a Mathews and a Genesis, will be given away after his presentation but you will have to be present to win.  Admission will be free!

Note:  Randy McPherson, was scheduled to be the speaker but will not be able to attend the event due to an automobile wreck that occurred this week In Montana.  His wife sustained severe injuries in that wreck and there he must stay at home to attend to her medical needs.  Doug Payne of Buck Creek Outfitters was on stand by for Randy.

In 1962, there were only a couple of deer camps in Mississippi. The Sam Newman Camp, just north of Vicksburg, is where Doug’s dad introduced his 5 yr old boy to hunting.  This was the beginning of a life spent hunting and guiding in God’s great outdoors.

As a career, Doug, and his wife Sandy, took over the family crop dusting business where Doug flew for many years. In recent years, Doug used his flying and hunting skills as a bush pilot and hunting guide in Alaska, where Doug and Sandy are Registered Assistant Guides. Also the Paynes, along with their good friends the McKays, own and operate Buck Creek Farms in Illinois, where they provide a Christian bow hunting experience for hunters every fall.

Doug’s walk with Christ can truly be called a relationship. God speaks clearly to him through experiences in life. As a result, he has many stories where God has directed his steps and produced fruit for the Kingdom of God. Doug does a fantastic job of sharing these stories in a conversational manner. You’ll feel as if you’re on the front porch of the lodge, coffee in hand, as he weaves a hunter’s tail. Whether he’s giving an account of a big bear hunt in Alaska, an elk hunt in Colorado, or a whitetail hunt in Illinois, you’ll be inspired by what God says, and how He says it!

Doug and Sandy live on the family farm in Brandon, MS along with their children and grandchildren. (Warren County Wildlife Expo)

Blooming Flowers

A dogwood tree that lends over in our front yard from next door.

Azalea bush that is getting ready to burst out with more blooms. 

Pretty as a picture!

Pesky Animals

For the last two weeks I have had to call our City of Vicksburg's Animal Control Unit, to bring a cage to capture some pesky animals that want to live under our house that sits over a small hill.  I don't know how in the world they can get in but they do.  When we first moved here 20 years ago we did not have this problem and then all of a sudden here comes all the cats, opossums and raccoons to live rent free. They have gotten up in the insulation and have made a big mess. Our heating system went on the blink a couple of weeks ago and its a fairly new unit and went downstairs to check and saw part of the side panel off and on the ground and a pipe was unhooked from the unit.  I called Animal Control and asked them to bring a cage to catch whatever is under the house again.  It has been about 5 years since we had to call the city to pick up 6 raccoons and 6 opossums and a number of cats that were staying here...but now they are baaaaack!  Two weeks ago we captured two cats and over the weekend an opossum and just this morning a bigger older opossum.  I've got to find out where they are coming in and get that fixed before they tear down our cypress home.  

Creation Calls...

Flooding Takes a Toll on Black Bear Cubs

I read in Sunday's paper about last year's Mississippi River floods might have killed a number of black bear cubs in Mississippi the state's black bear program leader said.

Three radio-collared females known to have had cubs this year had also given birth a year ago, said Brad Young of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

"Cubs stay with their mothers for 16 months," he said."  What we're taking away from this is that the litters of all three of those females were killed by high water.  That's why they had litters this year."

Young said about 120 black bears live in the state - at least 80 percent of them are Louisiana black bears and the rest American black bears.  With number of both subspecies so low, Mississippi has listed all back bears as endangered.

"While the flood didn't have much effect on adult bears, obviously it had a big effect on our cub survival from last year," Young said.

To document and track cubs, a wildlife agent tranquilizes the mother with a dart while she's in the den. Those might be on the ground or high in a hollow tree, but the agents can get up trees so quietly that the bear doesn't know they're coming, Young said.

Then the agent takes the cubs out of the den.  They get weighed, measured and implanted with a microchip between their shoulders just like the microchips used to identify cats and dogs.  After that, the mother's radio collar is replaced so it will last until the next spring.

"We put the whole family group back together and leave them in the den," he said

Record flooding was reported all along the Mississippi River in April, May and June 2011.
(The Vicksburg Post)

Sites @ Navy Circle Yesterday

We went by Navy Circle next to the Mississippi Welcome Center at Vicksburg yesterday and while there a train came by to cross the river.  There was no river traffic at the time but enjoyed the view of river from the circle.   

A pulled back view of the train crossing the bridge.

Twin boys playing on a cannon on a hill at the circle.  

A picture of Ameristar Casino and parking garage.  Looks that they are building some kind of retaining wall near the MS River.  

An up close shot.

5:00 O'Clock Traffic Jam On The River

We had gabbed an ice cream and shake at McDonald's yesterday and headed to the overlook to see if there was any river traffic going by.  As I turned into the Louisiana Circle, I immediately saw the towboat, Hortense B. Ingram, of Ingram Barge Company, passing by.  Was able to zoom in and get a picture from our truck.  

As the M/V Hortense B. Ingram passes by I saw another towboat that had already rounded the bend in the MS River at Vicksburg going north. 

I did not noticed the other towboat in front of the M/V Hortense B. Ingram when I took the picture above.

I looked back towards the bridges and another towboat was making it way under the bridges.

Almost through...

It was M/V Bill Elmer passing through Vicksburg with its barge containers.

We hit it just right for the 5:00 O'Clock traffic jam!  

This little sparrow was sitting on a wooden barrier at the overlook taking it all in and not worried about anything!