HELLO FRIENDS, A Rememberamble for December 22, 2025

SANTA LOOKED LIKE OUR LATE BROTHER, PAUL

You might be puzzled about why I chose this pair of images to illustrate this post, so let me explain. The photograph at the bottom is of our brother Paul who passed away aged 65 on January 22, 2016. He nor I, or anyone else in the family ever said we favored much at all. A few years ago at Christmas, I used a scribble feature to modify a photograph of me (top photo) to resemble old Santa Claus. After I posted it, everyone in the family who saw it thought it was a picture of Paul, not believing it was me after I assured them it was. I liked that, Paul was a good guy. Now, this has reminded me of another family member who had a striking resemblance to our Grandpa Raney McBride Peebles. You won't believe who I am referencing, yep, it was babee Conway!

After taking this picture of babee Conway, it struck me that he looked like Pa! I sent the picture of the babee to several family members, asking each who this picture of Conway looked like, and each and everyone replied immediately saying babee Conway looked like Pa Raney. Those are just a couple of the mundane things of life that would be forgotten, lest I wrote of them. It is well to chronicle these things, and you should do so also. This group is more about the bits and pieces of lives, the small unheralded things of interest, rather than big events, and spectacular happenings that we already know of. Can you imagine what a wonderful thing it would be if each of you posted regularly here telling of those moments worth savoring and saving. Yes my friend, it would be a wonderful chronicle of the things not found in the history books. Start sharing with us, your memories, of day to day life, from far back or today. If you do that, your life, as well as memories of those unsung heroes of your life, who have gone on will be remembered. Think about it, and please start posting those things, so we can share the old ones who made you who you are. What a tribute, to tell us of those that only you can bring back to life for us. Oh yeah, I said I would tell you of my Saturday, and how I was blessed that day. I picked Steven up from NBIC at eight am, so he could help me with some things, and we always have good fellowship, and the boyz love seeing him. So they were guaranteed to have an excellent day, and they did. Let me back up though, before I eft to get him, I decided to fiddle with my freezer that had stopped working last week, one more time before giving up on it, and getting the one my friend and neighbor Randy Canady offered for free. Randy and Robin are such good folks. The freezer is in my laundry room, and those receptacles do not accept three prong grounded plugs, so I had to use an adapter. I discovered that the adapter had gone bad, and my freezer was fine! I will ask the guys to return my frozen stuff in the next few days. You may be aware that I have been hankering for some fried mullet for a while now, so I called Pinetucky Country Meats in Swainsboro to ask if they had any fresh mullet. They did, so Steven and I set out to Swainsboro. I bought the mullet, and some yellow roe, and I can't tell you how much I paid for the roe, because some of you have helped me generously during this lean time for me, and I of course want to be seen as a good steward of those funds, and not seen to be a wastrel. I admit to blowing money on mullet roe, but I love it and had not had any in decades. It was once as cheap as dirt...have you priced dirt lately, even dirt is no longer as cheap as dirt...but decades ago it became unobtainable when the Japanese began buying it at outrageous prices. Okay, let me get back to the topic at hand. The last time I bought mullet there at Pinetucky, I bought ten pounds and had them cut them up and I told them to keep the backbones, as that is my favorite part. Well, Saturday I asked them to cut them up, they said they couldn't, didn't know how, nor did thy even have a fileting knife! So, I decided to get a filet knife at Walmart and do it myself. I asked Steven to go in and get one, and he did. While there, my sister forwarded a message from a dear lady, asking her if she thought I might want the stuff in a storage building she was emptying. Now, what are the odds that someone would make such a generous offer, when I was sitting already, in Swainsboro, in my pickup with Steven, ready, willing and able to come right then. She met us there and I saw that there was much more than I could carry in my truck, in one trip Steven loaded the bed of my truck with as much as we could carry, and must go back for the rest of it. It was a wonderful gift from a wonderful lady. I will fill you in on the items later. This is shaping up to be a great Christmas! There were a couple more things I planned to share with you but those must wait. Merry Christmas my beloved...

..... NUMBERS 6: 24-26, KJV

..... we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me