Work Work Work...

Today the McCoy Tribe spent the day working at our Caesar place. Starting to plant our fruit orchard! Yay! In typical McCoy fashion, we bit off a little more than we could do in a day. Supposed to be raining tomorrow, so the Tribe will be traveling to Hurley to see PawPaw after his leg surgery.

We started the day with a visit to Paul Bounds to pick up 12 - 6 inch posts from which to strand our wire for our grape vines. On the way to Caesar from Picayune, the little man fell alsleep as it was time for his nap! But as you can see, when he woke up he was plenty of help packing the dirt back around the posts.

Mom and Dad were both exhausted from the day's work....we only got 5 of the 12 posts in the ground....A lot more work than any of us originally predicted.

I certainly think that everyone who passed by had to have gotten a good laugh out of the two of us out there digging wholes in the ground! I now know why farmers aren't fat! Maybe we won't have too much rain this weekend and we can get the rest of them finished next weekend! And then in a few years we will have some good ole Muscadine grapes to munch on!

My Word! Time is Flying By!

We will do our best to get a post out soon! Doesn't seem like three months plus could have possibly passed since our last post. We have plenty of pictures to post....just have to get them posted!

Just added a three month update or two or three! Hope everyone has fun getting caught up on what has been going on in the McCoy's life! Sorry again for taking so long to post!

Potty Training begins as the Terrible Twos have arrived EARLY!

The time has come for little man to start learning how to use a big man's potty! This week we purchased a "Prince's Throne" and we are starting to learn how to use it! The first attempt with pants down ended up with the floor wetter than the potty...but such is the task as we are told by those who have been there before us!
Recently little man figured out that if he pulled a chair into the kitchen from the dining room that he could climb on it and "help" Mom and Dad with dishes and cooking...he hasn't quite figured out that once the dishes are in the strainer to dry that they don't go back into the dish water...but that is okay!
The next day after breakfast, we noticed that quite a bit of time had passed and it was very quiet in the house. Deciding that we should check and see what our little bundle of energy was up to we ventured into the kitchen and found this... This was a muffin...we must have needed a few muffin crumbs for something, I suppose!

Catching everyone up! January and December - Minus Christmas!

Our tool supply is growing! You might think that the McCoy Tribe is planning on doing a lot of yard work this year. Last year we bought our trusty Craftman lawn mower with our Economic Incentive Check...lets just call it a parting gift from our former President! Thank you GW! We are getting a lot of use out of it!
Last Christmas (2007), my late Aunt's BFF Mary Alice sent us a wonderful gift certificate to Lowes...we spent part of it on some attachments for the lawn mower! They have come in big handy spreading ant bait around the property and hauling loads of bark around to fill in some of the holes and low spots around the property. This year so far with that same gift certificate, we bought ourselves a weed eater to help trim around the trees after we mow!

Our goal for the day was to get our new weedeater assembled as well as the wonderful wheel barrow Nonna and Papa gave the Tribe for Christmas. Mission accomplished! Now the fun begins!

Papa and Nonna came out the the Caesar property before an adventurous trip to the Big Easy to look at an Organ Papa purchased and plan its safe voyage to Carriere where it will find its new home! Papa helped the decision challenged McCoy Tribe elders to find a home for the fruit trees and grape vines we purchased from Pine Hill Nursery back in Early December!

The decision has been made! Now the work will really begin! Planting the trees and vines. We currently have two apple trees, two pear trees, one fig, four blue berries, four Muscadine vines, and a Japanese magnolia (a gift to the Tribe from Brandy's work mates in memory of PawPaw James who passed away in Early December).
This should be real fun getting all of these plants planted. I think we are going to need to buy a few more now that we have our space picked out...this property is larger than I first imagined.