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| I followed the dog sleepily up the dirt road on Thursday. |
Thursday morning was another of those morning where I had to get going early so I could make it to Slidell Louisiana by 900 am. Slidell is just out side of New Orleans which is about 2 hours from Grand Bay. The dog headed on down the dirt road to the west while I enjoyed the mild temperatures in the high 60's with humidity in the mid 80's. The cloudy weather lately has been the result of low pressure areas in the Gulf of Mexico being picked up and moved through our area and then on up into the northeast. This pattern will probably hold steady till the cold weather settles in up there in the mid west. The lack of warm air up in the mid west will allow strong cold fronts to sweep through the area bringing cold weather and very clear and dry weather every few days. I do not really look forward to that because it makes walking in the morning a chore. Oh well. We walked on till we arrived at the newly cleared lot and stopped for a moment. We then turned around and started for home.
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| I guess they look a little like popcorn. |
Once we were home I walked into the back yard and saw the Pop corn tree is beginning to live up to it's name. The seed bundles are looking a lot like popcorn now and some trees are so covered with them they appear white.
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| A little frost goes a long way with bananas. |
I also took a look at the banana trees which were pretty much wiped out by the last frost we had. They are not dead but they won't do much more growing this year. All the banana trees with unripe fruit will need to be taken down as they will not grow any more new leaves. I repeat the Thanksgiving holiday ritual of cutting down the "Nanner trees" every year.
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Everything but the dogs house and
water pan was brought here by the
Dog. He's a hoarder. |
I also will be cleaning up my dogs collection of sticks and toys. He has been bringing home very large sticks lately and they are really cluttering up the area around his house. It looks like the Beverly Hillbillies live there.
At this time of year I have a large number of projects that need to be accomplished such as the dog's sticks so I don't usually get to do much relaxing on the Thanksgiving holiday. I have to make hay while the sun is shining as they say. Thanks for coming by today. Bye.
