We planted a garden yesterday: peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, and okra.
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B.W. Sinclair Dry Lake Road sawmill and Coffee Road 2019-02-10
“B W Sinclair also owned at one point some land along the Coffee Road,” says Wiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP):
WRDHP photograph, apparently from Lowndes County records
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Magnetic variation 4° East Continue reading
Bowen Mill Pond in 1870 2019-02-07
Update 2019-02-10: His previous land on Coffee Road at Jackson Road, and family pictures.
Much to my surprise, according to evidence turned up by the
Wiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP),
an owner of the mill at Bowen Mill Pond west of Quitman, Georgia
was my great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Waters Sinclair.
In an
WRDHP facebook post 2019-02-06:
We have created a series of maps overlaid upon a modern google earth
map that depict Continue reading 
Annotated detail from
WRDHP Google map of old Irwin County ca. 1870.
Gopher tortoise burrow in burned longleaf, with dogs 2019-01-27
After the prescribed burn, it’s a lot easier to see, and there are more gopher tortoise burrows than we thought.
Here’s another Gopherus polyphemus near the road. It’s good there are so many. Gophers are a keystone species, hosting Continue reading
Creosote 2019-01-24
Could this be a problem?
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Stopper 2019-01-05
How not to do plumbing.
While waiting for some PVC cement to dry.
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Gretchen in her Banana Trees 2018-11-05
Gretchen with her banana trees.
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Pond, Dogs, Sycamore 2018-10-04
Feed Us 2018-10-31
Next to a feeder on the pooch deck, they’re hinting at something.
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Fifty Degrees 2018-10-28
Fall has fallen.
Or maybe the thermometer is broken.
But there are brown oak leaves everywhere.
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