Pulling the seine net

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This weekend dad and I cut some trees in the wooded area near the pond. We are clearing a site to put a trailer. I found an old trailer that a woman was giving away just to get it out of her yard. It is pretty beat up and needs alot of work, but the repairs will be mostly cosmetic. I was thinking about setting it up as a rental, but after some thought, Wendy and I decided we could fix it up and maybe even live in it ourselves. We'll see.

After the work on the lot we got everyone together and went to the pond. Mr. A.L. Andrews got there first. He said he was going to catch the first fish, and that he did with his simple cane pole. Dad wanted to repeat the excitement of last year when he pulled a seine net and caught about 200 fish. Daniel encouraged him to wait until Angela and Jason could also be present this weekend. You can see all the pictures from Saturday on my flickr site. The catch was not as big as last year. We think that the net lifted and let alot of fish out. We caught a nice sample....several blue bream, sun perch, crappies, a shiner and a mud turtle. Everone had a good time.

Friendship Original Freewill Baptist Church and Cemetary

Friendship Original Freewill Baptist Church and Cemetary
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I told you about this place in any earlier entry. This is the place where Grandma Smith, Granddaddy Smith, Aunt Vera, and her son Darrel are buried. It was the home church of my Great Granddaddy Allen Taft Smith, I'm pretty sure about that, but I'll need to ask Dad to confirm this. It is nice here and well kept. All of my people are buried in Jones County going back at least 200 years. I'll show you the rest soon. Most of them with 10 miles of each other.

Our little corner of the Pleasant Hill Cemetary

Our little corner of the Pleasant Hill Cemetary
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This is where our people are buried. In the far right, back corner of the church cemetary. We have Reynolds' and Heath's here. That would be Granddady Heath's people and Grandmama Reynolds Heath's folks as well. You'll remember from a previous post that my grandparents met in the Plantation community between Comfort and Trenton.

This little church yard is quiet and sweet. I have been here to visit only a few times. Once or twice with Mom on one of her annual visits to place flowers on the graves of all our known kin. She does this every year and she came here in the past with her mom to do the same. My son, Daniel says he came here with her once, too, so this place is also know to him. Now you, too, know about it. Will you help me to remember to bring flowers to these graves when it is our time to remember? I know you will.