Blueberry Fields Forever

The Nesbit Blueberry Plantation in Nesbit, Mississippi is back open for business after being completely wiped out of its crop last season from bad weather. Acres of blueberry bushes greeted me early yesterday morning, along with some of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life.

Morris Ungren is ninety years young and still out picking blueberries, although this year is the first year he’s had to bring a lawn chair with him. While he looked for ripe blueberries, he told me about his days as a missionary and his travels to Nepal and Bangladesh, and a long list of other places.

When I left I told him that when I was ninety years young, still moving around, and sitting in a lawn chair picking blueberries, I would remember him.  He smiled and said he’d remember me too.

Happy Fathers Day

For father’s day the paper is doing a special story on a guy who is 19 years old, has four kids of his own, and just took in his 3 brothers after his mom passed away, this includes gaining custody of his 3 month old baby brother. And you thought your life was hard.

This is the kind of thing I would have wanted to spend a really long time on, but sadly with daily papers, time is always of short supply.Happy Fathers Day to all!

Juneteenth Festival

Today I was sent to the first day of Juneteenth Festival, the earliest known celebration of the end of Slavery.

Baseball Feature hunt

Today, among other things, I went to a baseball game with a staffer to feature hunt.

A little piece of home

I felt like I was home again when I stepped out of my jeep onto the gravel road of the Germantown Horse Show arena. A complete turn around from shooting golf, which id never shot before in my life. Now I was on something familiar, something I’d been around forever. It was like a 3 hour sliver or Kentucky in my day.