OGC Butterfly and Veggie Garden 7-19-08

These pics are for you Mrs. Williams. We miss you. Hope your foot is quickly healing.

Bonkers for SF gardening

What can I say.....I'm crazy about gardening. Had to do it with my ninth graders at Ozark Guidance Center. A great character builder and opportunity to build deeper relationships. Students constructed six boxes and then used several compost blends. We measure plants regularly as if we are studying test plots. Used the squarefoot gardening method. I'll let everyone know when we have our Farmer's Market so you can swing by and pick up some from veggies and support our garden. Larger middle box is a developing butterfly garden.

Old, yes. Sissy, no.

Well, I feel old. Every now and then those things happen in life that make me feel like I'm really a grown up. Like turning thirty a year ago (Just hit thirty one and boy was the catfish good)....and getting my first real job several years ago....the massive amount of hair growing on my back....and the lack of hair growing on my head....when my wife calls me "Steve" cuz she knows I'm acting like my dad even though she hasn't been around him that much....when I hear myself telling my friends my dad's jokes....because I really do think they're funny...spending my allowance (the money I get to blow) on things like bird feeders and whiskey barrels for the yard...I like watching birds in my back yard and putting out feed for them....and don't get me started on gardening...I'm even growing lavender because I love the way it smells and I harvested the flowers today and hung them up to dry (and if you call me a sissy you better do it to my face)..and most recently buying a car for the first time (yesterday. yes!!). Carrie and I went to Oklahoma City yesterday and bought a car. It felt like a milestone. Every other car has been handed down to me and to her and to us. Our parents were really good to us to hand cars down which allowed us to pay off loans and save money and eat beans and rice and rice and beans until we were finally able to buy a car. We are really thankful to have a new car, for a great cousin helping us locate it and a great God for ultimately providing it and giving us the money and to our parents for their help all those years and for their teaching, and to Dave Ramsey and his teaching...beans and rice...and now we get to play a little, not that we didn't play some already. We went and bought insurance today and then to the DMV to get it assessed and registered and to pay a lofty excise/sales tax (that just ain't right). I even got a sweet conservation plate for the back. Mostly because I think it's really cool but also as a way to "pay it forward" (in a very small way) by giving to a good cause and to honor my folks (who are kind of in to fish and wildlife) for being for me (and us) all these years. Thanks dad, mom, roberta, ford, rita, tomilea.

TWO NEW FISHING POSTS ADDED 1/27

In case you haven't guessed.....

.....we bought a Mac. And we love it. And we will be blogging again. If you happen to read this please drop me a line or two. Also, troutbum posts comming soon so check out my link.

New Additions

People don't think I do, but I know a whole butload of crap about blogging. Actually I'm really technologically challenged but the new blogger makes it real easy to do stuff like videos and links to web albums and stuff like that. So, enjoy the new additions to my blog and I'll try to post something now and then.

Papa's New Toy

My Papa got a digital camera for Christmas. Was fun to watch him learn how to use that thing. Us Henry men are all a little technologically challenged but I thought he did real good.

More Football Than I Bargained For

This Saturday was one of the best Saturdays of football that I can ever remember. Arkansas beat Tenessee by a whole bunch and Louisville, Auburn, Cal, and Texas all lost. This means the Razorbacks will be significantly climbing in the polls as well as in the BCS standings. Another contributor to this great football day was that ESPN Game Day was filmed right here in Fayetteville. Now, I realize this is not news to many of you. The highlight of this Saturday came at 10:55, just before Corso wore the Razorpig head and held up that weird little razorpig head on a stick as he picked Arkansas to win...I finally passed this kidney stone that I've been working on since Nov. 1st (which is exactly two years to the day that I passed my first kidney stone). I felt it was very fitting that in this awesome day of football my stone passed in the almost perfect shape of a football. Kind of crazy that it came at 10:55 and then all this great football took place. Anyway, I think I'm going to carry it around with me through the rest of the season. If anyone wants to rub on it to bring our Razorbacks a little extra luck just let me know.


And here is the most recent Crag pic.

October is for getting out

We're in the swing of fall here in the Ozarks. Carrie and I have done a lot of getting out this month and will continue to get out with a trip planned for next weekend. Here's our list of recent hiking trips and outdoor activity.

• Lost Valley

Lost Valley Pygmy Rattlesnake

• Hideout Hollow
• Artist Point
• Buffalo River Trail (Goat trail, Carrie)

Upper Buffalo River, low water, from Big Bluff

• Beaver Tailwaters (Patrick)

• White Rock Mountain Loop
• Hawksbill Crag (next weekend)

The fall color should reach it's peak this weekend. Everybody get out and enjoy while you can. The long, depressing winter will be here soon.

You can't see me but I'm raising the roof

#15 Arkansas 6-1, 4-0SEC!!!!!!!

Recent Happenings

So, I'm liking these "Messin with Sasquach" beef jerky comercials. Mostly I like them because they remind me of my college days at John Brown. There was this guy in my friend group who was large and hairy and we called him Seabass. We used to play pranks (just the kind that were fun and not mean) on him and then he would clobber us. I always knew the beating was coming but it was still worth it. Usually it wasn't my idea but somehow I was the first guy he came after. Or maybe just the slowest. Anyway, here's to you Seabass and if you read this, I miss you buddy. So, hope you all are well. Carrie and I are well. Fall is just around the corner and we're quite excited about that. Labor Day weekend brought a trip to the Buffalo with Community Group friends. We hiked the Hide Out Hollow Trail and it was well worth the one mile in and back out. Very scenic. Dusty climbed everything we walked by. Other news.......I just got Willie Nelson's Countryman CD and it's pretty dang good if you ask me. Saw my Mema and Papa recently and had some cod at the Crackel Barrel with them. Had a good time. I only see them a few times a year. I love you guys. Football's off to a pretty good start. I got to go to the Arkansas vs Utah State game with my buddy David. Good game. Even better was watching David sit down in a huge wad of gum left in his chair. Carrie and I are cruising through Lost Season Two on DVD before season three begins Oct. 5. We decided to have two regular shows this fall--Lost and Survivor. I guess we like shows on islands and with plenty of drama. Well, those are a few of our recent happenings. Other than that we've been working hard and doing the regular house chores. We've got nephews comin this weekend. New pictures at Ozark Trout Bum (link to right).
At the trailhead.
J-Mill posing behind tree.
Dusty climbing.
HideOut Hollow

Last post follows pictures

Carrie soaks her feet in millennium park, Chicago
weird, cool art thing in millennium Park
A little cornhole with the cousins, Lake Michigan background

Could that be the Sears Tower?
The Bash Brothers at Wrigley Field
Jump Pick!
Chicago Skyline

Eden Cave at Lost Valley
Lost Valley, Buffalo River
Check these babies out
Razorbacks!!!!