I hope the sun found you well this morning as it peeped at you or you peeped at it. The situation right now with our lack of rain is troublesome and the forecast is not encouraging at all. Farmers can't plant until and unless they get rain. Seeds need moisture to germinate and if they do sprout, the sprouts wither and die. I have often quoted Dr. J. Vernon McGee's words spoken decades ago, "it is all well and good that a Georgia farmer pray for rain, but he might want to do i

YEAH, I WISH I STILL LOOKED THAT YOUNG! It is a new week, fresh from the solar/lunar laundry. Some say the week begins on Sunday, even the calendar people say so. But in 1971, ISO declared Monday as the first day of the week. In my mind it always was. I know no one who considers Sunday as the first day of the week. Of course there will be a contrarian or two who will say in the comments that they have always counted Sunday as the very first day of the week. But we know better

GOOD MORNING I would like for this Saturday to be a good one for both of us, yep you and me. I will do my part, may you do yours. A good thing for our area today would be rain, we are closing in on the most important part of farming, and that would be planting! If you don't plant, you can't harvest. If you plant and the rains don't come, there is no crop. So, as it is dry in our region let us ask that Divine Providence see to our need for rain. Anytime the need for rain and p

GOOD MORNING!! Friday once more! Although I am no longer getting up at 2-3am and going to work, Fridays still seem special. Although there is no longer a paycheck at the end of the day, Fridays still seem special. I hope they remain so to me. I do have to avoid sleeping late today, as I have a appointment with my barber in Swainsboro this morning...who thought that I or anyone would need an appointment to see a barber...at 10:45, then at 1:30pm, I have to go to our hospital f