Top Gun Maverick bomb

Yesterday was one of those steamy, brutally hot Mississippi days. I worked outside for a while but feared that I might end up with heat exhaustion from the unbearable heat and about 2:00 I came in the house to cool off. My wife had gone to run some errands prior to...

Hatfield and McCoy battle royale

The dam on my pond is eroding and I need to put some rip rap stone on it to halt it. My entire farm is fenced in, and the fence runs so close to the pond down the levee that I can barely drive a small ATV down it much less a tractor or heavy equipment. and yet I own...

Gently whispering

Well, I received numerous emails about my post yesterday from Texas natives concerning the cross ring I mentioned in the post. Several readers expressed an interest in obtaining one. To find one Google a jewelry store established by James Avery in Kerrville Texas and...

We are one!

I was meeting with my landscape architect the other day and I noticed a beautiful ring he was wearing that was made from sterling silver with a prominent cross engraved in it. I told him I really like it and he told me he bought it in Texas. A week later I was being...

“Hard” lessons

One day my wife decided that she would make some truly homemade biscuits as a special treat for the family. We loved biscuits and gravy with dried beef, and we were all waiting in eager anticipation of this breakfast feast. When she served the biscuits I noticed a...