~Plans Change~

We have cancelled our plans for this weekend.. We were taking a short weekend trip to New Orleans, but the expected Hurricane changed all that... They are talking mandatory evacuation, catagory 3.... So we opted to cancel and do that some other time. Larry has been in S Louisiana all week working. I was going down in the AM on Thursday and driving back with him on Monday. SO now, I workedThursday and Friday, we are staying home and unpack more boxes, organize more scrapbook stuff and hang stuff on the walls. It will again be a productive weekend. I was looking forward to Beignets (Fried Biscuits) with chocolate syrup on them, walking on the River Walk listening to the Calliopes, having dinner at Seaport Cafe and shopping at the French Market, Oh well, there will be another safer time to do that. Just do not want to tempt fate.. Heard today that it has become a Catagory "4" hurricane and they are now expecting it to become a "5" before making landfall early next week. Glad we did not go. They are asking all visitors to leave New Orleans, they began that early this morning.

We have spent Saturday, looking at yet another tractor. This one is a 1960 model (year I was born, gotta have it), runs good and has a belly mower. I think we are going to get it tomorrow. I will post pics of it when we get it home. Buck found this one, some one he works for has it. Nice tractor. Now we will have 2 and can get the yard done much faster, when we get the first one running good and get a belly mower for it. We started taking the first one apart this afternoon to fix a couple of oil leaks and do some sanding and re-painting. I am doing a photo diary of this as I did for the house. It will be fun to tinker with.

Bruce just came in and asked if we wanted him to shoot a hog. We have a hog out there in the circle where we have been feeding the deer. It is an area they cleared in the pine to run the field lines to for the septic tank. We have been putting Sweet Grain out there for the deer, and Bruce has planted wheat and we are about to plant clover. Larry and I sat at the Breakfast table this evening eatting dinner and watched 6 deer playing out there. Bruce got his coon light out and we were looking at it. He walked to within 10 steps of it before he started grunting at him. So Bruce, decided that was close enough. If the wild pig starts coming into the yard and messing up the grass and sod, he will be a dead piggy... He is really big, we may have Bruce kill him and have him butchered and put him in the freezer. We will have to see about that. I am not having him root up the yard.. Rocky has a hog trap, I may have him come trap it and then decide if we want to butcher him or not. Had no idea we had hogs around here. We have every wild animal there is except SQUIRRELS. We have yet to see a squirrel out here. We fed the squirrels at the other house and Larry said he would build me new squirrel feeders for here, but now he says there is no need to build new ones, when we have no squirrels. Dad traps them and takes them to the country and releases them, I have asked him to release them out here. SO the next ones he catches, he will bring our here. Then maybe I will get my feeders. Not sure if we can afford to feed deer, pigs, hummingbirds and squirrels. I am filling up the hummingbird feeders at least once a week. We are going through 50 lbs. of sweet grain a week, then add the squirrel food, oh well, we so enjoy watching them.

Well, gotta go finish an afghan for one of our nurses to raffle for the Race for the Cure. Will post a pic when I finish it. It is brown with pink ribbons in it.

Nite all...