Facebook Addict

Katrina stands up slowly & says....My name is Katrina & I am a Facebook addict. Then she bows head in shame. While the whole time sitting next to all her friends at the same meetings.

Playing on the computer

I have become addicted to Facebook.com along with alot of my other friends.

If you don't have a page you are missing all the fun.
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Katrina Potter Patty
my network is Huntsville, AL

China guest

What does a Southern guy do on the day after opening day of deer season for youth's?

Take your son deer hunting of course. After church today my hubby got a call from a friend that said the deer were on the move in the afternoon because of the warm afternoons. Hubby & Chris threw on some hunting stuff grabbed a gun & hit the door running for our land. Chris (11 years old) has been wanting to kill his first deer so bad. No luck last year. Matthew (7 years old) just is not to interested just yet. He & I took the time to stay home & stay warm. I cut labels to use at the collection center tomorrow for OCC. Matthew watched TV & played out in the playroom. Such a peaceful Sunday afternoon.

Hubby called around 5:00pm. They were leaving the land. No deer in site. No deer roast yet. They did however bring home food. They brought home a hot & ready pizza from Little Caesars.

Now for my title of "China Guest".

Jeff has had a few of his Chinese people from China in the past couple of weeks. They come here once every 18 months or so. Jeff is with Ashley Furniture. (NO-He can not get you cheap furniture. NO-He can not get you a job) They wanted to experience some southern culture while they are here. Yesterday we took them to our land just for that. Hubby had gotten a big 4 wheeler from a friend & took both the boys 90cc 4 wheelers. He took a couple of guns for target practice, rubber boots to hike down the trail & fishing rods to catch some bass. They seemed to have had a great time. When we were getting ready to leave we went to a little store up the road on HWY 15 to have BBQ (lunch, 午饭 wǔfàn or zhōngfàn). It is called Pam's Place. Stop by for great BBQ. It is cooked right out front in a barrel & they thought that was really something. Toby & Ken speak pretty good English. Jennifer does not speak any. Her being around me had to be a hoot. I just talked & talked. I had the guys tell her some things but as women we have our communication. I had looked up a 4 page list of things to say or rather have her look at the paper & point to the words.....It did not help.

Jennifer using Chris' little 22 Henry. Our lake in the background.

Jennifer & me/I (Yes-it was dang cold)

Jennifer, Toby & Ken

Toby, Jennifer, Ken & Hubby

Toby & Ken riding on the back of the truck coming out

Loading up to go eat.

Loading up the 4 wheelers to go eat BBQ

Our guest are due to go back at the end of this week. They have been staying in a local hotel. We will be having them as dinner guest Tuesday. I look forward to entertaining such wonderful friends from another culture. You learn so much.

Goodbye (informal)--
拜拜。 Bai-bai (Byebye)

Bless you--

Yi bai sui

Our Blessing

I keep promising to put our blessing on here about how we came about our land we bought a little over a year ago.

Well....we had been praying for quite some time to move out of the subdivision life. When our daughter was home & was the only child, living in subdivisions seem to fit our lifestyle then. Having 2 boys at home now we have wanted to give our children a bit of the country life. They have 4-wheelers, bows & arrows, sling shots, 22 rifles, shotguns & a few other things. Well walking out in your front yard in a subdivision with your 22 rifle or sling shot is not real possible. Little boys with guns & neighbors windows should not be used in the same sentence. Trying to find a house with land could be done but nothing just grabbed us. We would have to sell our house then hope the one we found would not sell in the mean time.

A year ago last Christmas my husband picked up the Sunday paper after church, read through the real estate section & found an ad for land. In bold black letters read "60 ACRES" with a description of the land (on a 55 acre lake front). Well we had thought of maybe 10 to 15 acres but not 60. That is an awful lot of land. All we can hear ringing in our ears is the sound a cash register makes. You know, cha ching, cha ching, cha ching. Land around the Tupelo area has jumped in price to the millions due to the Toyota Plant coming in the next county over. Well my husband called on it anyway & it sounded pretty good. He went the next day on Monday to look at lunch time, called me & said I had to see it. I looked & fell in love. We put a contract & money down on it on that Wednesday & closed with an attorney a week & a half later. How did we do it? We didn't! The Lord did it. We had prayed so much for something to happen. What seemed like an eternity at times. Are we building yet? No. Not yet. We have to sell our house first. There is always a reason for everything. God's timing is well....his timing. At times I want to scream "come on move me already". He will. I started wondering just how specific was I in my prayer. Maybe I should have mentioned I want to live on that land. Anyways he knows. We may never get to live there but for now he has us where we need to be.

Please, when you are saying your prayers be sure to include in them to send us a buyer for our house. We hope to get it back on the market next week.

Be sure & visit my YouTube page to see the video's I have shot of the land.

http://www.youtube.com/KPPatty

Who are you meme?

I have been tagged by my neice Denise over at http://shortybearsplace.blogspot.com/ for the who are you meme.
Here are the rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player than tags 5 people and posts their names, then leaves a comment on those five blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

1) What was I doing 10 years ago? Living in Georgia outside of Atlanta
2) Five Things on my to-do list today. Do some laundry, do some fix-it things around the house, sell my house
3) Five Snacks I enjoy - popcorn, chocolate, nutty bars, chocolate, cheese sticks, chocolate
4) Five Things I would do if I were a billionaire - Travel & live in Paris part of the time, donate to charities, my church, & do some secret donating to surprise people
5) Five of my bad habits - I bite/chew my nails & tend to yell when I get reallllly angry
6) Five places I have lived - Martinsville, VA & Kinston & Lumberton, NC & Newnan, GA & Scottsboro, AL
7) Five Jobs that I have had- Sewn in a plant, Real Estate agent, Insurance Agent, Production Scheduler for window Company, Temp employee, mother

I tag anyone who would like to do this meme.

Play Time

Usually our family play time consist of driving to our land. My husband took "The Boys", aka our kids, fishing today. They are seen waiting patiently while he ready's the rod & reels. After trolling around a bit, getting a few nibbles & Chris catching one pretty big bass they headed for shore for "The Boys" to do what they came for.......

Get down & dirty......It ain't real 4 wheeling if you don't get a bit of mud on ya'...

Sunny Sunday

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

- Brendan Gill

What do you do on a gorgous sunny Sunday afternoon?

Go to your land & play. Here is a few pictures of our great day. The first thing that went up was a tire swing after we first bought. The best outside activity. Throwing snowballs in the back yard one day & playing in long sleeve shirts the next. Great southern weather.

Yes, the grown up on the swing is me & pushing is my husband. The secret to life is to stay young & have lots of fun.