Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Bloggers

I will be spending Christmas and New Year with my family in Virginia and want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024!  

Santa @ Farrell Hall

Yesterday, after Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church, a Christmas meal was given to the parishes at Farrell Hall. Of course, Santa was there to greet the adults and children. I was joined by my sister and brother-in-law. As I was getting ready to leave, I wanted to get a picture with Santa and was going to stand beside him, and he asked me to sit. I was not expecting that and was pleasantly surprised. It's been a long time since I have sat on Santa's leg to tell him what I wanted for Christmas. I knew Santa from working at the Corps of Engineers, and we go way back. It was all fun and memorable.  

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Happy 81st Birthday Laura

I wish my only sister, Laura Love Ables, a happy 81st birthday today! I treated her to her favorite restaurant, El Sombrero, last year, and we are headed there today to make more memories.

Here are some fun pictures I took of her enjoying a drink, meal, a Mexican Birthday song, a shot and back home to enjoy her cake, and ice cream. We had a great time and look forward to next year and do a repeat.

Looking forward to next year!!!

Love ya, Sis!!

Nineteen Point MS Buck

Big 19-point buck grosses 190 inches, could be Boone & Crockett Club typical after deductions.

Griffin Gatwood said he’d never laid eyes on the buck until Oct. 4, despite having trail cameras out on a piece of Adams County hunting land for quite a while.

At first glance, he thought he was certainly a nice one, maybe 140 or 150 inches. But he was hunting other big bucks on other pieces of property, so he didn’t just jump up and start looking for the new arrival right away.

But when he kept showing up every afternoon between 4:30 and 5, well, that got the attention of Gatwood, a 21-year-old Mississippi State engineering student from Hattiesburg. So on Oct. 28, when the wind direction seemed right for the place where the trail camera was set up, he decided it was time.

About 3 hours later, he was standing over a 185-pound, 190-inch buck.

My congratulations to Griffing in our wild Mississippi outdoors!!