Family Vacation Fishing

Vacation Fishing
Doesn't get any better than this!
My Smitty had a few days of last week and we choose to stay home and fish my daddys catfish pond, with soo many animals to feed we needed to stay close by this vacation . Our first time ever having to stay home from a big vacation beach trip or something of the such but we enjoyed being home . Hubby being a truckdriver didn't mind at all not getting in the truck to go on another trip and me with the back problems was glad also.

We do cheat alittle bit fishing we throw a couple hands of dogfood out to feed the catfish and they come a running lol, NAH ..swimming!

Every once in awhile a cow comes too
see the cow birds

They filled these trees UP !

So me and my Girl Power Pink Fishing Rod
caught several of these nice size catfish
Course I gotta sport my Georgia Boots:)

 YOU Catchum' you clean um'

I don't mind cleaning just don't like taking them off my pole catfish will fin ya if not careful



See Smitty is so sweet to take them off for ME !
This trip took us fishing to the WEE HOURS of the Morning

Now this was a SUPRISE CATCH of the Night

Dusty caught a huge turtle
hubby had got him on the line twice but the turtle bit the hook off and he lost him but Dusty hooked him and shot him.
It was exciting I have never had so much excitement, I have never seen a turtle shooting and CLEANING!

Dusty showing him off
More on this Young Man to come,hint hint !!

Chase was thrilled to hold the turtle ,um
me being mom was not so sure on that

Dusty gave us a lesson on how to clean it and while he was cleaning he was telling me how to cook it !

OKAY ,I must admit the feet were really cool looking
the web foot was just like a ducks

Smitty washed it and battered it ,then I fried it up.
He and the boys ate it ,I did give a small taste and I usually do eat all kinds of game but turtle will not be on my menu sorry Gang !

Poppop gave Sophia a ride while we did take one afternoon and work on a small garden patch for fall

We dug up the old sunflower roots and re-rooted the tomato plants ,poor things had got lost in all the weeds in this patch.
Now hoping they take. and planted 3 rows of potatoes.
Yup and thats why I didn't get to join them on tonights fishing trip I can barely walk but I insisted on crawling and doing the planting of the potatoes while hubby dug the rows.

A True Mr. Potatoe Head (lol)
Can't ya just see those 2 beady tiny eyes behind that
big ole NOSE !!

May You and your family have a wonderful weekend,
hugs from the SmithGang

We are Celebrating !

We are Celebrating ,our family has our 2nd Senior !!
Our Timothy Chad Golden Smith
has made it to his Senior Year ,Class of 2013 :)
Time seems to have flown by for sure.
My Golden child is such a huge blessing to me
he is truly my backbone.

Such a serious Lad
Many wishes to a Wonderful Year Son ENJOY !

we are also celebrating the birth of
 these 5 beautiful Rabbits
they are just so tiny
this is Our first rabbit breeding Blessing on Our farm
my Florida White Rabbit was bred with Our California Buck THUMPER. 
He has proven himself to be a Daddy Buck.yay!
we bought our new florida moma while she was expecting once on the farm she had 5 but only one lived so we knew she could be a moma but our buck we purchased last March when he was just 4 months old so we have been waiting for him to mature and see if he could prove himself as a Buck and he has ! we are all excited. So now it is up to the Farm to learn to help care for the new babies as we progress in rabbit meat raising.

                       May You have a Blessed Rest of the Week from
                                        Our SmithGang

Heres Whats Pickin on Our Little Farm

It's been a Pea Pickin Time Lately:)

Our Chad, the Backbone of Our Garden
seems to be run over with peas  these days
we never do get the rows
far enough apart but once he burns the wholes in the plastic there is no going back!!
And when you are doing that Project we totally forget how Beautiful and Big those plants get and just how far those runners will go !

Our sweet Go Getter loves to shell he usually oops to babysit Sophia while the pickin is being done but
 he still gets his fair share:)

Our Rows are just short enough this time to pick and bring in a huge pot of Peas for Supper with a huge plate of Cornbread ,its so YUMMY
sometimes we choose to have only that for Supper!

Such a Hard working young Man

The Butterbeans have started filling our basket

                  We grew 2 different kinds of beans this year Kentucky
Bush and Italian Flat Beans both have been wonderful Producers

The kentuckeys we pick and bring straight to the Frying Pan I saute with Olive Oil , butter and Garlic and Onions that we Grew early Spring and add 2 huge Portibella Mushrooms
MMM there is never Enough of this Recipe 

These are the Italian Flats
Funny thou I call them Leather Britches to the kids but they are not but they get a chuckle out of it.

A Few of these Little treats are still coming in
the Okra has gone to a full Blown Cutting every other Day

LOL, this is how Farm Kids  look after Mom has Worked them
A nap anywhere will DO !

A few new Pecan trees have come up and we have been protecting them for transplanting to the back Field
( well if we can keep Hubby from lawnmowing them !)
But this one had me  totally STUMPED I had never seen a Pecan Leaf this big ,so I had to call an Expert IN to take a look and tell me if it really was a pecan tree.

MY DAD
he said in all his years of growing Pecan trees he has never seen leaves this HUGE !
This one we will diffenatley Baby to see how it grows and Produces down the years.

This is what is going on in OUR Little Farm Pickin,
May You have A Blessed Day
Love From My Smith Gang

Figs, Frogs Legs and a Fall

Oh How i love fig season

My Dads trees have been Blessed this year

These are Hubbies favorite
Sometimes hard to get them to the Jars before they gobble them up

I measure out one quart fresh figs at a time

My Daddys recipe which won him 2nd place at the fair years ago, one quart figs to one cup sugar

They Smell amazing while cooking

They look so pretty in the jars

so far , I have put up 13 quarts , 5 pints and 6 half pints (for gifting)

While out in the Pea Patch  with Chad
this cute little froggy scared me
and got me thinking mmm yummy Frog Legs LOL!
So off to the market we went

Home came 3 dozen Frog legs

After washing them and  soaking them
in mustard and ice for 2 hours

And a Quick dip in Louisiana Hot sauce

 I coat them with cornmeal and plain flour mixed to crisp them

Off to the Frying Pan they GO :)

And what a Yummy Meal it makes
Cajun Frog Legs
Homegrown  Potatoes and Greenbeans,Yummy Rolls and Hush Puppies and always 
 Southern Sweet Tea

Dig In lol

Smitty loves them

Guess who else Loves them !!?

Then this past week I took a nasty fall going under the Pecan tree to water and feed the rabbits:(

Quite the Bruises and a twisted ankle on the other foot and set my back pain a soaring a few days later geez I felt like i had been in a wreck! Finally i am walking better just when I thought I could leave the Cane at home ...Still thinking I should have had the ankle X-rayed but I have seen enuff docs !! he can look at it at my next Doc visit in August if its still being aggravating .
Well off to  check the animals
May You have a Blessed Day ,
Love from the smith Gang