Goodbye November

End of November already!!  We arrived in Georgia on the 23rd and on the 25th drove almost 5 hrs. to Sister's new house for Thanksgiving. Dinner was wonderful and we had a great afternoon riding around, seeing the sights.  We were riding around when Russ said, "There's a gator!"  We jumped out of the car and sure enough, there was a gator in the river, I do not know how he saw it from the car.  Here is a pic of Russ, Bob and Yevonne looking over the fence.

and a pic of the gator

Very cool, we saw lots of interesting things.  Before heading back to Sister's we did a quick stop to see a girl I went to school with... and her hubby who I had last seen about 40 years ago...oh my!!!!  Also, November 25 is the 50th birthday of my nephew (and would have been the 50th birthday of JFK Jr.)-- AGAIN...oh my!!!
Back at the house we took some pics-

Here is Russ &, Yevonne (and Charlie) - Russ got a very good pic of Yevonne and me, if I get a copy I will post it, (Bob did not get a  good picture of us!)

Bob & I headed back to Georgia on Friday.  This is the first time we have been here to see the cotton still in the fields.

And it looks like we got here just in time, since most of it is already baled.

Sooooo home on the 26th....less than a month before Christmas.  I have been putting up trees for the last 4 days!!!  I wonder if I will get them all  up before Christmas?????



Wolf River Farm???

The first time we looked at this house, there was an old apple tree in the front yard.  It had one, fairly good-sized apple on it.  So Bob picked the apple, took a big bite and said it tasted VERY good.  When we closed on the house he asked the sellers what kind of apple it was and they said it was a Wolf River apple - a very old variety that is not common anymore.
Sooo, we bought the house and Bob had one of the guys make a sign for the front yard --- our old farmhouse was named and Bob set out to give the old apple tree a little TLC to revive it.

Well Bob fertilized and sprayed and watered that old apple tree and soon it was LOADED with blossoms, then little apples.  I remember standing in the back of the pickup and picking some of them because it was so loaded Bob thought the branches would snap if we let all those apples get big..........THEN Bob sprayed it with something....he thought he was spraying  to keep disease and worms away.............. well, the leaves turned brown and the apples fell off and very soon that old apple tree was "deader than a doornail" - - Bob's wife said "good job, honey" and  after a year or so we started looking for some Wolf River apple trees.
In 2006 we found a catalog that carried Wolf River apple trees - - our 2 little trees arrived in the spring and we planted them near the garden.  I wondered how long it would be before we had apples - I had visions of making delicious caramel apples with those BIG apples.

A couple of years later Bob bought a Skid Steer and while moving dirt around one day he ran over one of the apple trees.  We talked about getting more, since we now only had one, but never got around to it. 
We took good care of our one little Wolf River tree, even hanging little wind chimes from it's branches because the dear found it irresistible.

Today--
 Bob was moving wood chips into the flower beds.....with the skid steer.  This afternoon he came in very upset with himself.   After a little prodding, he told me.....  he backed over the other tree.  I had to laugh, then I went outside to take a picture.



I found what was left of the tree...propped it up against Bob's "toy" that makes him forget to look behind him and took a picture of the last Wolf River apple tree.

I agree with my husband, he is definitely NOT  Johnny Appleseed  and Wolf River Farm will be minus Wolf River Apples!!