20 Mar 2021, Saturday

 20 Mar 2021, Saturday

Prioritized Daily Task 

      Frank Powell lost his arm a few years ago in a hay-bailer.  His wife Evelyn died Jan. 30, 2021

10 AM - meeting at Frank Powell's with Eddie Lovett, his dad, Allen Lovett, and Larry Bul - 1st responsibility for William Alexander and Manah McAlpin family and Old Indian Graveyard is Larry Bell.  For which he gets the use of my Allis Chalmer tractor and chain saw.  He uses Frank Powell's, his mother-in-law's husband, bush-hog that attaches to the tractor.  In return, I give him the same privilege I have extended to Frank Powell over the years, the use of the fields around Pleasant Hill Church and the field across the road from the home I grew up in.  When Larry is no longer able or wants to use the land for raising hay for sale as did Frank, he and Frank Powell agree to turn the tractor, bush-hog and chain saw over to the Lovetts with the Hunting Club who have been leasing the farmland to hunt on for years.  They are in agreement to continue to keep up the land around the old home place and the rows between the trees in the bottom pastures that was once pastures and fields but are now planted in Oak trees with volunteer pines also in the rows.  They will use the tractor and bush-hog when Larry Bell is not using them to farm the hay or other crops on the above-mentioned land.  When Larry Bul retires from raising hay and farming he relinquishes the Allis Chalmer Tractor and Frank agrees to also relinquish his bush-hog that Larry has been using, to the Lovetts and Hunting Club.  The Lovetts and the Hunting Club will then have the sole responsibility to maintain the William Alexander and Manah McAlpin family, Old Indian Graveyard and the entrance road from Dewitt Husley's old home.  We, Eddie, Allen, Larry and me, all road in the 4-wheel mules up to the graveyard.  Two trees had fallen down and we had to go around them.  Bobby Husley said he would go back and cut and get them out of the road. I was just a little disappointed in Bobby but I know everything works out for the best.  I want to be honest and expect the same from others.  If I tell you something, I want it to be the truth, and I expect the same from others.  I checked the headstone grave markers.  I wanted them to face the east.  I put a compass on the headstone I bought from Bobby Husley.  It should be reading 90 degrees if it was facing directly east.  I read 115 degrees southeast.  I want the grave when it is dug to be turned back 25 degrees to be exactly 90 degrees facing the East.

** Later Larry Bul declined this request. Frank Powell has also declined the offer regarding the bush-hog. 

* Later in the year I got Bobby Husley to have a couple of his workers turn William Alexander and Manah McAlpin's and mine and Debbie's grave markers facing East.

2 PM - meeting with Tracy Dickerson and Eddie Lovett, and his dad Allen Lovett, at the farm.   Tracy told us the driver of the tractor crawler that tore, and broke the gate that secured the road entrance to the bottoms that was locked with two locks will come back and repair the gate.  He also said he would ask him to pull the culvert from the first small branch crossing when he comes back.  

                                   The gate that was destroyed by the driver of the tractor/crawler

                         Eddie, Allen, and Tracy at the branch where the culvert needs to be removed 

We all went together over the area that Tracy and the GA Forest Commission built fire breaks and did control burns.  Some of the fires got very hot and a lot of the longleaf pines have turned brown.  Tracy said they would come back in about 3 months.  I told him I did not think so but he assured me they would.  

         Need to check in one year to see these Long Leaf Pines are living

Tracy gave us a map of the farm and the type of trees and marked the plots that would be thinned this year.  I gave the map to Eddie Lovette.  Tracy and Eddie agreed to stay in close contact with each other.

I stopped and visited with my cousin Susie May Pope Washington.  Doris Faye Pope Ward was Susie May's sister.  Their grandmother, Mary Susan McAlpin Cain Pope was my grandfather, Robert Alexander McAlpin's sister.  She lives on the old home place of her aunts and uncles next door to where Doris Faye and Jr. Ward lived.

                                                              Susie May Pope Washington             

I stopped in Buchanan, George at Ken and Jackie Dodd's.  Michelle Sanbers, their daughter, has moved back from Louisiana to help care for her mother.  She and her husband live on the property, a short distance from Ken and Jackie.

I stopped and picked up some groceries and filled the car with gas for tomorrow.