Workday at Louise

Charlie and I (Jane Gray was spending the night with Sayley) left early Saturday morning for Louise (he asked how I was so awake that early in the morning) to do some work on the dove field. We had a big time riding the tractor and 4-wheeler, spreading out the wheat, visiting with Uncle Will, playing in the dirt and whatever else we found to do. Louise's biggest attraction lately has been what I like to refer to as the "Redneck Aquarium" - where a large pipe drains into a canal, a large pool has been formed. Charlie loves walking out on the pipe (bigger than a car) and seeing what there is to be seen - bass, bream, catfish, carp, turtles, snakes, and best of all, alligator gars. Today, there were tons of fish, a couple snapping turtles and four big, ugly snakes. One of the gars even had a bream in its mouth which Charlie thought was about the best thing ever. As we hit the gravel road to head home, Charlie announced that he wasn't even a bit tired. About two miles later, he said that he thought he would close his eyes for a little while. It was another fun trip to the Delta. (In the second picture, you can see the gar catching the bream, the black blob in the middle is about 50 carp in a group, and if you look closely, one of the snakes is wrapped up at the very top just above the black thing in the middle).