| Well, I have been here for the most part of a week now. I have been driving around looking and houses and getting to know the layout of the land here. I can't believe all of the airplanes that continually fly over my apartment here in McGehee. I must be close to an airport (personal planes) and this must be farm country because these planes are everywhere. This picture is of a park just as you come into town. This demonstrates just how much water is around this area of the world. |
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On Saturday, I was a little bored and went for a drive. Greenville, Mississippi is fairly close (35 miles - just across the river from Lake Village, Arkansas). The bridge that crosses the river is not new, but they are in the process of building a new bridge just down river from this one. This area of the world is incredibly green. I know that these pictures probably don't do it justice, but it is real pretty. The area where McGehee is located is in farm country. The type of farming that is done here is dry land farming - meaning that they don't water the crops, just plant them and rely on the weather to do the watering of the crops. |
| Here is the welcome to Greenville sign. Unfortunately it is difficult to photo the world and drive at the same time, so some of the pictures that I took are a little off center. Just so you know, Mississippi license plates have a light house on them, maybe there is a light house of some notability down in the gulf of Mexico that I am unaware of. As I was doing the driving down there and back (actually I went up to Pine Bluff when I got back) I was hoping that the thumping on the tires would go away. It is still making the noise on a once per revolution as it was before. It seems to be coming from the front passenger tire, and I have inspected the tire and can't see anything expressly wrong with it. I imagine that it will go flat if something is defiantly wrong with it, of course with my luck, it is probably the CV joint or half shaft going out now that I am here without my tools to fix it. For that reason alone, |  |
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I am scared to look to hard into what the problem just might be. This picture here is from Mississippi of the Mississippi River looking over at Arkansas in the background. The land around the river is pretty flat, so it is hard to find a good place to take a picture of the river. I tried to take one from the bridge, but there wasn't a good photo from the bunch. While I was there, I watched a few barges go up the river with loads of cargo. I took some pictures of them as well, but again, they made the river hard to see. |
| Here is Lake Village, AR, with Lake Chicot in the back ground. The lake isn't very wide, but it is 13 miles long and the town is built as close to it as it is possible to be. |
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This is the typical scenery around McGehee, AR. You can tell why there is so much farming here. This is known as the Mississippi delta area. I assume that is because it is so flat (there goes another airplane over head - if you care) and fertile and of course easy to grow things. Unfortunately this also leads to the increased population of bugs. From talking to the people at the mill, the misquotes are quite a problem. In fact in the paper machine room there are bug lights hung up around the machine perimeter at an interval of one every 100 feet. The other people at the mill also told me that they have crop dusters spray insecticide on the mill itself to kill the bugs. This alone is enough to make me want to live further away from the mill on "higher ground" to get away from the misquotes. |
| In contrast, this is the area of Pine Bluff. If is very similar to the Monticello area in vegetation but it also higher in elevation (when I say higher think 30-50 feet) but it makes the difference needed to reduce the insect population. I have been told that in the summer you can't be outdoors without being covered with misquotes, but in Monticello you can exist outside and control the bugs with repellents, and sprays, poisons, etc. So that is enough to rent a house in Monticello for 6 months and begin the moving process. Hopefully when Terra arrives then she will be able to start looking seriously and I will be able to view the ones that she really likes. This will allow us the time necessary to sell our Taylor home and make us more ready to purchase another one if this is what we really want to do. |
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