Paw Paws Place

Pat's sister Annie and nephew Dustin came for a visit with us this past week. We had a full day Friday as we went fishing and then to the Manatee HS semi state final game.....which we won! Fishing was not all that great as you can see but fun was. We stared out with me throwing the bait net and when we had enough for the day we headed out to our favorite spot. As you can see we caught a variety of fish, also Annie caught a Ray. Pat caught a fish that I have never seen before, have no idea what it was. We also had a great time fighting the Sea Gulls a diving long neck black bait eating ducks. We spent a great deal of the time shooing the birds away. But all in all it was a fun day on the water. Hope you have a Blessed day and be a Blessing to someone. The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.” - Deuteronomy 18:15

                      After Thanksgiving the traditional football playing was started by the young people which did not include me.(thank God). As you can see Doug and his boys were playing catch in front of the cabin. Everything was going good until daddy over threw the ball into the thicket. As you can see, he who over throws, fetches....as the picture shows daddy was in a lot of agony...ouch! Friday night my daughter Sandy and hubby James arrived for a visit. On Saturday morning we had sausage gravy and tomato gravy and biscuits. Luke  loves it when his Aunt and Uncle visit as he gets to play a lot in the game room. Here they are teaching him to play cutthroat pool...he loved it! Sunday the Marvin's left very early in the morning and headed back to Bradenton. Pat and I had lunch in Cleveland Tenn with James & Sandy and James mom and dad. It was James dads birt...

On Tuesday we met friends from Bradenton for lunch, Ron & Dawn Allen along with their son Levi. They have a home in Haysville NC, we met in between at Murphy NC. There is a little restaurant in Murphy call "Shoebooty's" that we like and that's where we ate. We then went back to their new home to visit for a while, it is a beautiful home. When we left I stopped at my favorite used book store and bought several James Patterson books. (my favorite author) Tuesday evening the rest of the Marvin's arrived, Doug and Tyler. The next morning was sausage gravy and biscuit time. The girls only ate biscuits and boring scrambled eggs. After Doug rested (as you can see) we planned a days outing.       We went to Copper Hill Tenn, which was known for ore mining in the early 30's. We watch a short slide show of its history and then a man spoke to ask and permitted us to ask questions. (it was quite interesting). After that we visited the museum where we saw many...

Pat, Darenda, Luke and myself headed to the Blue Ridge mountains on Sunday the 20th. This was our first stop of the day, The state line of Georgia is where we stopped, great timing for a rest area stop. The next stop was lunch, we stopped a road side area and enjoyed a nice peaceful lunch in the GA fresh air. We arrived at our cabin about 4:30 that afternoon, the weather was great and we had a great relaxed evening. I called Terry Christie and ask if we could come and visit him the next day, which we did. After lunch Terry gave us a guided tour of some of Dalton. As you know is a history buff so we got a great tour. My grandson Luke was memorized by his talks and really enjoyed them. They knew the Gallo clan had come to town! This certainly was a meeting of the minds..... This is a Chapel that was built in the early 40's. Terry told us the the City Of Dalton was using it as a tool shed. They had made i a decision to tear it down........

All Star Championship Team and Coaches. "Get out of my way, I have this one" "Look Ref" I did not do it ! Luke and a great knee shot! Tyler and Luke have finished their soccer season for the year this past weekend. Tyler's team came in second and Luke's team come in third. Luke was also selected for the all star team and they won their game for the championship 4-1, Luke scored 2 of the 4 goals. Tyler was selected to play for the team that was going to play against the coaches. Tyler had a conflict with that schedule and went to his church group program instead..'God Bless' him! Up next is flag football for Luke and maybe Tyler. Tyler has a chance to play Lacrosse which is a club sport at Manatee. Tyler went to a Lacrosse clinic in Virgina and enjoyed it very much. He Aunt Jill play Lacrosse in college so I am sure he could get some great advice. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and be Blessed. “Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to t...

Geeeeeez I can not believe that is is getting that time again. It just seems like four years ago we did this and now here it is again. After much encouragement from family and friends I have opened my campaign account up and have started putting my campaign together. I have a number of family members and friends that are helping me raise my money. That is the hardest thing for me to do, is to ask people for money. I am hoping for smooth sailing again this time as the older you get the more I wonder if I can still hang in there. I believe that I still have a deep passion for this city and her people. There are a lot of exciting changes on the horizon and I want to be part of it. I hope that my family an friends and especially my grandsons can set back and say, that they are proud of what I left. Well is is getting close to the time that the Florida South Carolina game starts....so I will see you later. Have a Blessed week! “For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not ...

Top pictures demonstrate how things and people change. When this pool table first entered the Marvin's household it was a sacred place to play pool. Nothing would have been on that table but a few pool balls and maybe some $ bills. The second phase was that it was a good place to fold clothes. Now enter the world of Lego's, Dad would not dare move these Lego's for any reason or the world of Luke would come crushing in on him. Now, what happened to the scary people for Halloween? When I was a kid you dressed up as scary as you could. In my case just dressing like everyday worked for me. Luke lives and breathes the world of sports day and night, I guess that is a good thing. That night this is how he went trick or treating.....wow scary..for Fla fans anyway. Big brother Tyler got to stay home and pass out all the candy to the neighborhood kids. In my area the only kid that got candy from our bowl was me. Nary a one showed up at our front door.I am getting ready for another ...