My son Will is visiting with two of his children. Hunter and Daisy are here with us and his oldest Hannah will be arriving today. I am not going to write long. There is too much to do outside and the day is to wonderful to waste. I have said many times that we decide to endure the cool damp winters and the long hot and humid summers for the wonderful months of March, April, early May, October and November. The weather in these months make living in Mississippi worth while. Oh, let's not forget the people. Forget about what you hear on the news and have heard for the past 70 years about Mississippi. All of those stories are no more true than the stereotypes you hear about anywhere else in the world. Of course, there is just enough truth to the "legend" to make it believable. In reality, Mississippi like every other place in the United States, no, the world is full of good people enjoying the lives they sometimes have to struggle through. We are good people with deep agrarian social roots. We work hard and don't like to depend on any one else for pretty much anything. Now, with that said, we don't like to depend on anyone but, when we need help there is usually someone that will recognize it and come running to help. Not dish out charity...just help a friend, neighbor or family member when they are in need. When there is sick person in the house--a family member has surgery--or someone just has a really bad cold. Someone is going to bring you "supper". If your yard needs mowing and you have just had surgery someone will load their mower in the back of their pick-up truck and come over and take care of it for you And if the worst happens and there is a death in the family, the casserole patrol activates and enough vegetable dishes, roasts, fried chicken, hams, heavy casseroles, desserts, rolls, bread and cold cut platters will show up at your house to feed you and all your family and visitors for a week. Oh yeah, let's not forget the sweet tea...you can't have a meal in the south without lots of sweet tea.
Yeah, we are just a bunch of good people taking care of each other as we walk through this time on earth together.
Ok, I am sure you are wondering why I went off on this tangent and I really don't have a good reason other than I want those of you reading this from from some far-flung part of the globe to understand that Mississippi is a great place, just like the great place you live in. Good people just getting along.
I am about to go out and work on the hen house and about a dozen other projects I have going.
Until next time...John
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