Easter Eggs and Pecans???

I ran across a funny observation on a blog the other day that I really enjoyed -

The pecans are beginning to fall from the trees and I've been collecting them as I find the time. I'm beginning to believe that the Easter tradition of searching for hidden Easter eggs was created by southerners wanting to condition their children to find and gather pecans in the fall.

I think maybe his thought about Easter eggs and Pecans might just be right :) !

Quote

Old Chinese Proverb:
"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow"

Old Southern Pecan Grower saying:
"The best fertilizer is the footprint of the farmer"

Pretty much saying the same thing. Maybe that's why my farm shoes are splitting apart at the soles.... maybe some of these would come in handy (hint, hint!!)

Things may come to those who wait...

but only the things left by those who hustle.

-Abe Lincoln

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

-- Franklin, Benjamin

Quote of the Week

Give fools their gold,

and knaves their power;

let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;

who sows a field,

or trains a flower,

or plants a tree,

is more than all.

-- Whittier, John Greenleaf

(Picture by Robert Duncan)

Better than a Persian Rug

To me a lush carpet

of pine needles

or spongy grass

is more welcome

than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

Quote of the Day

"George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries."

- Will Rogers

Quote of the Day

"This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again,
relieve him of any encouragement

that he might have received during the last one."

-Will Rogers

Quote of the Day

Will Rogers:

"You got to do more

than just live in the country

to be a Farmer."