Facebook

Family/Friends:

I haven't blogged much here lately. I'm thinking Facebook's a whole lot more effective in keeping up with us Joiners. If you'd like to know more about how to get set up in Facebook, let me know and I'll try to help.
-g-

Channel 8, Army Worms...and me!

http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=287821&shu=1

Click on the link above to see the video report of the life and death struggle between me and those pesky army worms!

-gerre-

The blogs

 

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The Studio     http://thestudioathiddenoaks.blogspot.com/

The Joiner Blog     http://gerreandjo.blogspot.com/

The Family Blog     http://joinerdycusfamilyblog.blogspot.com/

The Lorenzo Blog     http://thelorenzoblog.blogspot.com/

Pix of us Joiners    http://picasaweb.google.com/century21sueanndenton

 

Reagan Elizabeth Joiner

Here's pretty Reagan. She's a dolly! I'm glad she looks like her mommy. She does look like mommy, doesn't she?

Trinity Grace

Here's a photo of Trinity taken at school recently. I sure do love her.

The barn on the farm in Lorenzo

I spent a lot of time in this barn and near this barn on the farm located about a mile from Lorenzo, Texas. I wouldn't change places with anyone who grew up anywhere else in any other way. Though I knew at a young age that I wasn't gifted or tempered to be a cotton farmer, I knew life was good and that God had a plan for my life. My mind can still recall the sounds made by a wrench falling on the barn's concrete floor. I can still call up the smell of grease and dust. I can still hear the chirp of sparrows who colonized the barn and made it their home. I can easily remember the treasures found in the old red grainery (falling down now)...treasures left over from times when crops were made with teams of mules and homes were heated with coal oil. I walk through the graveyard of old implements and remember when they were new. I look at the scrap iron pile near the grainery and remember the implements from which the scraps came. Life is good. God is still working His plan out in my life. Growing up near this barn didn't hurt me a bit. 

Joe Robert Joiner

Joe Robert Joiner was a true cowboy. Rolled his own cigs. Built a straight fence. Said what he meant. Threw a left-handed loop that had eyes. Died in '66. Miss him. 

Pretty lady meeting Trick/Treaters

Here's Jo on Halloween evening. We had fun. Lots of company. Many "trick-or-treaters. I think ours is one of the most popular neighborhoods to visit on this special day. I "treated" most of the visitors. They seemed to think Jo was prettier than I, so she took over the responsibilities. (I made that up, but she is really pretty, isn't she?)