Improvising!

We were snapping beans and it started to rain...Tami just put one of the pans over her head and kept on snappin!  Thank the Lord for the rain!

Bean Snappin' Time!

One bucketful of almost five gallons of green beans I picked this morning.   The hot dry weather has kinda stressed my little patch but it's still a good crop!  I may cook up a bait of these this afternoon...ya'll come on over!

The Transit of Venus

The transit of the planet Venus across the Sun is occurring today and tomorrow...but don't worry if you miss it...the next transit will be in 2117...during the Millennial Reign!  We have solar filters that fit on our old theodolites and total stations. We used them (back in the old days!!!) to do solar observations to determine astronomic or true north.  I set up one of the total stations, attached the filter, focused on the sun and the result is the pictures below.  I took my old digital camera and pressed the lens against the eyepiece of the total station and it took some good pictures!  You can faintly see the cross-hairs of the total station in the pictures.  Venus is the little spot in the top right part of the Sun.

Our God is an Awesome God!  We do not live in a world of evolutional-schmevolutional chaos.  Our Creator brought order to chaos!

Gen 1:1-2  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  (2)  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And at the end of every day of creation, God looked at his handiwork and declared it to be GOOD!
 

Don't worry about the idiots that say global warming will destroy the earth, that the ozone layer (or lack thereof) will change the seasons or cataclysmic climate change is coming (see below)

Gen 8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Amen!

Beans, Beets and Cukes

My "other" garden which has green beans, beets and cucumbers. We are almost out of canned beans and pickled beets so I hope the crop is good! Picked the beans this morning and gonna see if I can roust out some new potatoes to cook with them! I stagger the planting of the beans so it doesn't overwhelm us.  From the right, two rows of beans, two rows of beets, two rows of beans, half row of cucumbers, half row beets.   The rest is Grandpa's.

Taters & Maters!

We have had rain the last two mornings and it was just in time for my potatoes.  You can water them but they need a good soaking rain ever now and again.  The Kennebecks are the three rows to the left and the two rows to the right are Yukon Gold (for the agriculturally challenged...the row in the middle is /are tomatoes)

"Doc Watson - 1923-2012

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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson playing and singing "Deep River Blues". Have to cross one thing off my bucket list...never got to go see him in concert and he was in West Plains a few years back and I missed him. Doc Watson - 1991 - Deep River Blues (Solo) Doc pickin "Deep River Blues" in his beautiful Merle Travis influenced style. This was recorded in 1991.
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Leamon & Helen Riggs

I miss my Mom and Dad every day but especially on Memorial Day.  Dad was a veteran of the Air Force and served during the Korean War.  He was a carpenter, real estate broker, auction clerk, had a moving and storage business, ran a used furniture store, repaired farm equipment and a host of other things that I have probably forgot.  Mom was a homemaker, cook, gardener, seamstress, crocheter, knitter, quilter and anything else that needed doing.  More than anything, they were Godly people that took me to church and taught me by example the ways of God.  They were not perfect but I am not ashamed to claim them as my parents.

Leamon & Helen Riggs - Early 1980's

Most of the Riggs clan at Mom and Dads plot in Oak Lawn Cemetery - L-R, Ryan, Ralph, Lisa, Regan, Tabitha (Riggs) Miller, Tami, Ray