Yea Alabama !

Alabama 27 - LSU 21


"Yea, Alabama!"

Yea, Alabama! Crimson Tide!

Every 'Bama man's behind you,

Hit your stride!

Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,

Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave!

And if a man starts to weaken,That's his shame!

For 'Bama's pluck and grit

Have writ her name in crimson flame!

Fight on, fight on, fight on, men!

Remember the Rose Bowl we'll win then!

So go, roll to victory,

Hit your stride,

You're Dixie's football pride, Crimson Tide!

Living And Learning

I have decided being a parent means never having worry free days. It's funny that my oldest child is 22 and I'm just now really figuring this out. I have also learned that no matter how much you talk to your children and try to teach them right they are going to do things that aren't always right sometimes. Guess that is just part of growing up, and that saying is true "You live and you learn". My son pulled a stunt last night and I really pray he learned his lesson. Getting the call scared the crap out of me because the first thing that came to mind was he'd had a wreck. Thank goodness he was ok and hadn't had an accident. I hate to go saying what had happened, I will respect my son's privacy and won't say but I do pray he learned his lesson, that's all I'll say about it. (it didn't involve drugs or anything like that)

I have always tried to be open and honest with my children. My oldest daughter was sometimes allowed to do more than alot of her friends but I can say she was always really good about letting me know where she was going and who she was going with, and she was always home by the time she said she would be. She turned out great and is one of the sweetest people I've ever known.

I try to always treat my son the same way, he is really a sweet boy, and I have never had any trouble from him. Not alot of boys at nearly 17 will still hug their parents or grandparents and tell them he loves them even in public, I'm really proud of the sweet person he is. He is truly an outdoor person, he loves hunting and fishing like no other person I have ever seen. Over the past couple of years he has a new obsession, dirt track racing. I am proud to see him growing up and enjoying these things. I am proud he is able to get out and meet people and make new friends through these things he likes to do. But there is a part of me that sometimes wishes I could just go back to those days where he was happy as could be just out playing in the dirt with a toy tractor, or dumping the box of hot wheels in the middle of the living room floor playing.

This past year has been harder on me than any year in my life, I realize how fast time is flying by, I think so much about times from the past and wish it was possible just to go back to when they were little. I also think of not allowing my youngest child to ever leave home without me until she's 30 yrs old. Oh if only it was that simple!

A Walk In The Fall

Yesterday my honey and I took a walk back behind our home, it was such a beautiful day. We knew we better get out and enjoy it while we could. We had a good time, I did get very tired and we did see a few snakes other than that we had a blast just walking and talking...Ohhhh how I love country living and having places like this to get out and enjoy.

The pond back behind our home, isn't it pretty. It's such a peaceful place.

The Luxapilila Creek (the Lux) which runs back behind our home.

38 yrs old and this is the first lizard I've ever held.

Walking the rails ...
The Lux at a different location, so pretty!

Awful picture of me, but the water was so clear, I just had to get in it and wade around, I just love creeks and streams. Burrrrr the water was like ice! Ok, on our way out of the woods from the creek we walked up on this, it almost gave me a heart attack!
This was a very pretty area, all the trees over the tracks, but leaves were everywhere and I was really worried about snakes after the one we'd just seen. Good thing we were on the lookout, snake on the tracks...by this time I was totally freaked out and ready to head back home.
We decided to cut through a neighbor's farm (a couple of miles from our home) to head back home, I was ready to get out of the leaves because of the snakes!

I Went To Dreamland

The Dreamland I'm talking about is probably not the one you're thinking about.

The Dreamland I'm talking about is a restaurant and they have about the BEST bbq ribs ever I think! Their quote is "Ain't nothing like'em nowhere" and believe me, I don't think there is.

Steve and I went to Tuscaloosa today just for a fun day off to ourselves and while there we stopped and had lunch at Dreamland. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my goodness, if you're ever in the Tuscaloosa area or Birmingham you have to try it, they have restaurants in both locations ( I also think they have other locations in the South, but not sure where). We ate at the original restaurant, it was opened some 50 yrs ago by John "Big Daddy" Bishop it's very nostalgic. When you go there be ready for some ribs because that is all they serve, no side orders, other than banana pudding which was also great! For appetizer you are served loaf bread and bbq sauce, now when I looked at it I thought what. But ohhhh my goodness, the bread was so good dunked in the bbq sauce. And their sweet tea,,,,,ohhhhhh I think it was the best I've ever had. Wish I could make it that way, don't know what it is but funny how tea is always better in restaurants than it is at home, wonder why? What's their trick?

Ok....gonna tease you all now with a few food shots.

Road to Suffrage

On this Election day I can't help but think what a battle it was for women to get where we are in the world today as far as being allowed to vote. The first women's rights meeting was held way back in 1848. Seventy years would pass before the Nineteenth amendment would pass on August 26, 1920 allowing women the right to vote.

It's really sad to me that so many people don't exercise their right to vote, men or women...

You can bet this proud American woman will be heading to the polls today to very proudly vote for John Sidney McCain and I'll be thinking of those women in the above photo marching for my rights way back in 1912.

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone

Well, she's not exactly little but I still wonder where she's gone.

Let me tell you a little about her. Her name is Abby, we have had Abby for probably close to 7 years now. She's a black lab mix. Abby is such a sweet dog, she never roamed away from home and every time you would pull up in the driveway Abby would come greet you, of course when you started walking she'd lay right in front of you on her back wanting her belly scratched. She was such a sweet dog.

I remember the first time we saw Abby, we were down at the pond behind our house fishing and Wesley brought her home from his dad's. I thought ohhhh my goodness, what are we going to do with this dog, she was just so hyper, running all over the place, jumping up on everyone. Well after a couple of years we realized that Abby was one of a kind, such a sweet dog. She loved trying to talk to you and she was so jealous, if there was another dog around getting more attention than her she didn't like it at all, she'd run up and put her paw on you wanting you to pet her. We feel almost certain that Abby must have died because as I said she never roamed away from home. Things sure are different now without her, night time is much quieter also, Abby loved barking at night. We always joked that she sat and watched for us to turn off all the lights and then she'd start barking.

She hasn't been seen since last Thursday, we have looked everywhere we can think to look and there's no sign of her, maybe she will show back up but until then I'll be wondering where she's gone ...

Roll Tide

Friday night we debated as to what we were going to do Saturday. We knew the weather was supposed to be nice, and Steve had the day off. Well we slept late Saturday morning and at 10:30am our phone rang, It was my mother in law asking if we wanted tickets to the Alabama ballgame, Steve's aunt had 3 to sell. Yeaaaaaaa, there was our something fun to do. Only one thing, we were all in our pj's, hadn't ate breakfast and Molly's breathing treatment hadn't been done and Tuscaloosa is an hour away, the game started at 2pm. Talk about rushing, we made it to our seats in the stadium 10 minutes before kickoff.

Of course we had a blast, Alabama won! Rollllllllllllllllllllll Tide .....

Since Texas Tech. beat Texas last night and Texas was in the #1 spot, Alabama got moved up. We're # 1 !!!!!

If you live in Alabama you are most likely a Alabama or Auburn fan. I am so proud to be a Bama fan. Roll Tide was one of the first things I was ever taught to say, of course the reason I was taught that was so I could say it to family members who were Auburn fans.

If you have never gone to a game in Tuscaloosa I highly recommend that be something you do. There is nothing else like it. The atmosphere is just amazing, and no matter times how many times you hear the Million Dollar Band play "Yea Alabama" you still get chills.

Here are a few pictures from our fun day at the Bama game.

Kickoff

Me, Molly and Steve

Molly and Steve

Such a beautiful campus, I love all of the old trees

Home of the University President