Gardener's Dream! Pictures Of Our Kudzu Patch.

[Mrs. Yosemite]

Anyone Else Tackled Kudzu Vines?

When we got in church, we lived almost 40 miles away from the church we wanted to go to. We tried to find some land closer to the church than where we were. We also needed to be closer to our work and get out of a family situation we were having. We prayed and prayed and looked and hunted. Nobody would sell us any land. Except one man who had two acres of Kudzu he would sell.  It was only a mile away from the church.

And the Lord just worked it out that the price of this land was about exactly how much money we had. Plus it would leave us a little extra to have our trailer moved.

The only downside to this was a mighty rolling kudzu patch!! Everybody kept telling us that if it was all we could find, then it must not be the Lords will. They all said we we're crazy and asking for a headache. Well, we went ahead and bought the kudzu patch.

The first thing we did was get a guy on a bush hog to mow the kudzu down. Then we got a backhoe and scraped & leveled it off. We dug kudzu taters and burned roots for days! Since there is no way to get them all, we still have little sprouts coming back now that it's springtime. Looks like we are gonna have fun mowing it this summer!

Just wondering if anybody else has ever tried to do this.  I think it's gonna be a pretty place if we ever get it all fixed up. It Didnt take long at all to get "famous" in the area. Everybody from miles around us refers to us as the couple who bought the kudzu patch. Everybody honks when they go by & we just wave real big! 

I feel that God really blessed us tho! We have a whole lot bigger place that what we had. Its more peaceful. In a better community, and highway frontage. We like it here.  We've almost be married 2 years in June. God has really been good to us, because when we first started out, we didnt have a pot to sit on.    But little by little, paycheck by paycheck things are improving drastically.


This Pictures Show How everything Has taken shape in 6 months. Some of these pictures are big so you may have to scroll around.

[yosemite]

nice place! if i didnt know better,id say that was MY house. oh,wait,it is.LOL

[yosemite]

  looks good to me!!

[The Purple Fuzzy]

I can see that you've put a lot of work in to your place. 

That's the best way to get something, little by little one step at a time.

Congratulations and just keep on plugging away, you'll get there!

[Brother Dad]

Looks like a very nice place to call home.  You guys did a GREAT job.

[yosemite]

it'll look more like home when i get my old trucks out there and start work on them!!LOL fender here door there,motor in the tree thing goin on.

[Brother Dad]

it'll look more like home when i get my old trucks out there and start work on them!!LOL fender here door there,motor in the tree thing goin on.

Yes sir, don't forget the old swing set frame for pulling dem dar motors out the cars.  Oh dat what the chain in the tree is fer.

[Brother Dad]

But really I do like your place. 

[MelodyB]

Where in Mississippi are yall at?

My parents live in Pascagoula.

[yosemite]

we live kinda between fulton,amory,and nettleton,and tupelo a little place called evergreen. its only a community called evergreen. we have a nettleton address. it is located on hwy371 in north east mississippi.
                                 thnx yo

[Sis]

I went to Nettleton school from K - 6!  OH WOW! Didn't know I was in MS.

[EricShane]

i think those plants look pretty... they kind of look like sweet potatos

[MelodyB]

How far from Amory? I know of a REALLY great church there.

[yosemite]

10mls to amory. you know of a church in amory? who's? we may know them!! how do you know of it? who do you know? we may know them. when ya coming to visit?gotta visit our church tooo...

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[MelodyB]

Bro Coy Hill is the pastor there. He comes to our church and preaches for us a lot. He is great. I close friend of my pastor, and very highly respected. My pastor has preached there some too. Dont know when I am coming to visit...My parents live in Pascagoula, and I am planning on going up there in Aug, but its not for sure yet. 

[yosemite]

we go to the evergreen church of the lord jesus christ with brother robert maxcy. he just turned 75 last week. great church,i just hate the organ playing.LOL

[Mrs. Yosemite]

Bro. Maxey (our Pastor) just turned 75. He &  Bro. Coy Hill are good long time friends. I like Bro. Hills church. I like the one in Tupelo and in Amory. If anything ever happens to Bro. Maxey, we may go to one of the other churches. The Church we go to now is a small church. Most of the time we have about 16  in Sunday School. No children. Its hard to get people to come to our church since there is a big crowded pentcostal church just 2 miles up the road on the highway.

Our church is a little off the beaten path. Its mostly older people. Bro. Maxey depends on us so much that we hate to hurt him by leaving and going to another church right now. Seems He's trying so hard to hold on to his church and keep it running, but he dont have but a couple of people with good tithes. All the others there are on a monthly SS check and they dont get very much at all. But Bro. Maxey is starting to get feeble. I dont know what will happen if something did happen to him. They would be trying to find another Pastor I guess.

Most of our congregation is older women. Im the youngest one there. We dont have but one other man at our church besides Allen, and the other guy isnt very talkative.

I would like for him to be around some good men that he can enjoy fellowship with.  Yosemite has mostly been around truckers all his life. (You know what all kinds of truckers there are).  Most of the guys out there are dope heads and alcholics, swearing profanity everywhere, womanizers. 

He hasnt been in the fellowship of many HolyGhost filled men very much. Thats why I am kinda pushing to help him meet some men friends of positive influence. To help him find some friends he can respect in the Lord and look up to. I was so tickled that he got to meet Bro. Dad. Im glad I found this website. We have cut-up about Bro. Dad & Sis. Mom everysince we meet them. I am looking forward to meeting some others on here too someday.

I want him to feel like he's a part of a brotherhood in the genuine Holy Ghost. He's never had that before. Man, I wanted him to be able to go to that men's conference so bad, but he didnt get back in time to go. I thought if he could get down there for 2 days where he couldnt smoke, there would be alot of support for him. And alot of strong Holy Ghost filled men to help him pray. There is strengh in numbers. Seems like when you got people helping you, its a little easier to get the Holy Ghost.

[MelodyB]

My Dad went to that mens confrence in Jackson last weekend...he would have liked him. Dad used to be a trucker.

[Mrs. Yosemite]

I sure did want him to go! I havent been to a ladies conference yet either. My sister went last year and when she came back, seems like she spoke in tongues for 2 weeks! lol SO I would like to go to one of those. She said there was hundreds of women all out in the isles and they were having a time. Can you just imagine all the hair do's getting messed up! I couldnt imagine that. Id have to explode. lol

[Sis]

I sure did want him to go! I havent been to a ladies conference yet either. My sister went last year and when she came back, seems like she spoke in tongues for 2 weeks! lol SO I would like to go to one of those. She said there was hundreds of women all out in the isles and they were having a time. Can you just imagine all the hair do's getting messed up! I couldnt imagine that. Id have to explode. lol

Oh the hair pins fly at Holy Ghost women's conferences. LOL

[Mrs. Yosemite]

Yep. I need some of that Holy Ghost conditioner in my hair. lol My sister and I are planning to go this year. I hope we get to. She went last year and hasnt stopped talking about it. My sister and her husband pastor a Pentecostal Church in Sherman, Ms. Its a small church, but they are doing good. Bro. Norman & Sheila Mattox from Sherman Pentcostal Church. Dont know if any of you have heard of them, but here they are. lol She doesnt look anything like me does she?
She uses a WHOLE bunch of hair pins. lol

[EricShane]

I sure did want him to go! I havent been to a ladies conference yet either. My sister went last year and when she came back, seems like she spoke in tongues for 2 weeks! lol SO I would like to go to one of those. She said there was hundreds of women all out in the isles and they were having a time. Can you just imagine all the hair do's getting messed up! I couldnt imagine that. Id have to explode. lol

Oh the hair pins fly at Holy Ghost women's conferences. LOL

they fly at my church... you gotta watch it! Your liable to get hit by something if you come to our church on a saturday night... lol

[Mrs. Yosemite]

OH Man! One night at another church,  a woman got happy and her hair- do came down and she had a toilet paper spool in her hair! 

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Better than the oatmeal box that I've heard about...

[Sis]

Better than the oatmeal box that I've heard about...

Girls only did that for a joke. They didn't really use them. They DID use other things, though.