Happy Great Grandma

We've added three new Babies to our family.  First was Maverick, then Annabelle, and now Raegan (who is fast becoming "Sweet Baby Rae"  I feel so blessed!!

New Life

This has been a hard week.  Monday a favorite nephew passed away.  Wednesday mother goats began having babies.  We have 12 so far and are expecting more. Through it all... GOD is GOOD!!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

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I'm ready to go back.... it's been awhile ... OBX

Farming

It has been busy around here this last couple of weeks.  This farmer picked his peanuts and then made hay.

Last Monday my husband's sister went home to be with the LORD.  She had been in a nursing home for a few years...  Some of her grandchildren posted this picture of her on facebook and it was so appropiate and showed her personality.  She was always happy and out going, helping anyone.  She loved our family reunions and we are so happy she made it again this year.  She didn't quite make it to her birthday.  She will be celebrating in Heaven this year.  She will surely be missed.  Her obituary was posted in the post below.  (Blogger wouldn't co-operate ... thus the two posts)

Doris Brantley Radford September 3, 1933 – August 25, 2014 Doris Brantley Radford, 80, of Wilson passed away Monday. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at Joyner’s Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park. The Rev. Daniel Moss will officiate. The family will receive friends Thursday morning from 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson and other times at 622 Poe Street. Doris is survived by her daughters, Hilda Hoffer and husband, Jim of New Bern, Louise Barnes and fiancé, Ricky Dorman of Elm City and Yvonne Joyner and fiancé, Mike Fountain of Nashville; her son, Frankie Brantley and wife, Terri of Advance; seventeen grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; her sister, Dean Cardenas of Ayden; her brothers, David Butler and wife, Janice of Ayden, Eugene Butler and wife, Sue of Grifton and Curtis Butler and wife, Anne of Ayden; her daughter-in-law, Renee Brantley of Castalia, her sisters-in-law, Margaret Butler of Ayden and Nell Butler of Greenville and her extended family, Cameron and wife, Jennifer, Jessica Sawyer and Ryan Fountain and wife, Wyndi. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Eugene Brantley; her second husband, Marvin Radford; her son, Jerome Brantley; her parents, Thomas and Mary Butler; her brothers, Robert and Alton Butler and her son-in-law, Alan Joyner. Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society, c/o Mrs. C.A. Thompson, 1207 Peachtree Road, Wilson, NC 27896.

Goats love Knock Out Roses

This is what we found when we got home from the doctor yesterday. Goats in the yard. Someone didn't shut the gate.

Organic Apples

You know how I can tell? Poorly shaped and each one has a worm hole. No sprays were used.

Blessings

These people came to spend the night with me on Monday night.  They live very busy lives and I always wish they could stay longer.  I finally got to hold that sweet baby girl. 

They hurried back home to make sure the boys didn't miss any more of VBS. This summer is going to be busy for them.  A wedding for Ashley's sister and all of them in it except baby girl.

I've smiled over and over as I find a little horse that didn't make it to the toy box.  All the tub toys lined up on the side of the tub. The raggedy dolls sitting on their little bench, placed just so by the children's mother.  I caught my breath when I saw them.  Sitting in different positions than I usually have them, but how attractive that little scene looked.  Some people have a natural ability to place things just right.

Experiment

This is an experiment... Tried to load a video... well lets see what happens...

What Now?

Some are saying no boots on the ground, yet I know people have been sent to help somebody do something. Special forces they call them. Do they go barefoot or maybe they have hovercraft?

Do we hit them hard or just let them keep on getting away with marching south?

And back home, what's with bringing all those children over here to suffer. Those camps can't be good, can they? What's the plan behind this? I tell you those humans have me so confused. I am so glad all I have to worry about is our man coming around with the sweet feed at the end of the day. He never lets us down.

Wordless Wednesday

A Memory

For a long time after I had cancer, I suffered with a horrible depression. I really believe my age and some of the medicine I was taking made it worse. My husband would try to get me to get out of the house and go places with him. So many times, I refused, and just sat home in my misery.

Then one day on April 27, 1992, he insisted that I go with him. I told him I had a terrible headache. He said we'll stop at a store and get you something. So I finally said yes and got in the car. He was going to buy a piece of equipment for his tractor and it was at Keansville, N.C.

On that day I had the opportunity to go through an old house in Duplin County off Hwy 11. This house was on the Chambers old homeplace. Frank Chambers, a nephew of the man who owned the house showed it to us.

The house sat well off the ground. Originally it was on cedar posts but several of these had been replaced with cement blocks to level the house. Around the foundation of the house (not the porch and kitchen) there were brick walls with small windows with bars. Inside this enclosure underneath the house there were two rooms with dirt floors. We were told that this was where slaves were kept. They were locked underneath the house in these small rooms.

Inside the house there were four rooms (I think)on the first floor. There was one large room upstairs that in previous years had a partition that made too rooms. The kitchen was off to the side of the front of the house. There had been a separation between the kitchen and the house before, but now these had been connected.

There were three back doors. Double doors led out from the hall to the back and another door just behind the stairs to the outside. Frank's uncle was redoing the house in the hopes of living in it.

The Historical Society had wanted to restore the house, but the uncle would not have had control of the house so he turned them down. Frank's great uncle had acquired the home place during the depression. He had no children but left all he had to 23 neices and nephews and four churches named in his will. Frank's uncle was able to buy the homeplace and a few acres around it. Frank's mother and father were both Chambers.

So this was one time I pushed the depression away and took this ride with my husband. And eventually with GOD's help I got passed that time in my life.

A news story on a local channel brought this memory to my mind tonight...

The house has 43 hundred square feet of charm and history, and it's all free. The catch is whoever takes it has to move it, which can be expensive.

"What we're looking for is a taker that owns some property, preferably in Pitt County of possibly in Beaufort County that's financially capable of taking on a project of this magnitude," said Claudia Deviney with Preservation North Carolina.

The house was built around 1910 and is located in Grimesland. In addition to paying to move the house, the new home owners would have to agree to preserve it.

"It's very important to save these buildings, especially buildings that have gotten to the point where there's really nothing else but to move them for them to survive," Deviney said.

The house has 6 bedrooms and two and half bathrooms, and has attracted potential takers from as far as Texas and New Hampshire.

Deviney says finding a historic house like this for free is extremely rare, and she hopes it can be saved before it's too late.

"It's just a beautiful house that's in good condition and really needs to be preserved," said Deviney. "It's part of Pitt County's history, and we like to say Pitt County built history and so that's why we, this is what we do."

If you're interested in the house, you can contact Claudia Deviney at 252-482-7455.

Wrong Turn

Following

From time to time I stop and my husband keeps going... so I'm following...

Photo Hunt - Water