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Everyone is “Born of Woman”, so everyone has a birth mother. Some of us are fortunate enough to have a Mom ❤️ A nurturer, giver, teacher… A person above & beyond all others in your life. I am blessed by the fact that I still have my Mom!
We are having Lunch together today 💥
Proverbs 31:25: “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
I think this bible verse sums up a Mothers Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
My wife is being celebrated today as well as my sister and many many great Moms that I know ❤️
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Happy Mother’s Day to ALL the Moms out there! What in the world would we have done without you! ❤️
~ Mark C.
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I’ve been up since early morning, doing a few things in my garden. Finally getting my tomatoes 🍅 squared away 👏🏻 It was a test… I almost always get my ‘maters’ out by April 15th… But this years weather had other plans 😊 Late frosts, wind and storms, unseasonably cool nights well into late April, early May drove my decision to wait. PS: I’m glad I did.
In fact, I know several old gardeners who always wait until Mothers Day to plant their tomatoes 🍅 and peppers 🌶 🫑 and almost always have show stopping gardens with HUGE yields. “It’s all about soil temperature and warming nights”… I’ve learned that this age old wisdom holds true almost every time. Everything revolves around proper timing…
“Whoever makes a garden. Has never worked alone;
the rain has always found it, The sun has always known;
The wind has blown across it. And helped to scatter seeds;
Whoever makes a garden. Has all the help he needs.
Whoever makes a garden. Should surely not complain,
With someone like the sunshine.And someone like the rain
And someone like the breezes.To aid him in his toil
And someone like the Father. Who gave the garden soil.
Whoever makes a garden, has, oh, so many friends;
The glory of the morning, the dew when daylight ends.
For rain and wind and sunshine, and dew and fertile sod;
And he who makes a garden, works hand and hand with God.”
~ Douglas Malloch
Have a great Sunday!
PS: 1 week from today is Mothers Day! ❤️
~ Mark C.
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Cool start to the morning, overcast, 46 degrees and a little windy 💨 But, it’s warming back up! We finally had a week of good weather! Got some work done ✔️ and a slight sunburn… But, this is the time! We are past frost and the whole world is ‘greening up’. Gardening starts in full force now 😊 Tomatoes 🍅 peppers 🌶 squash and corn 🌽 My Koi are eating twice a day now and very happy 😃 Things are looking up ⬆️
“And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Now it’s on to coffee ☕️ and eggs 🥚 My chickens 🐓 are loving spring too! I’ve got eggs coming out of my ears… 😋
Have a wonderful, blessed Sunday!
~ Mark C.
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Good Morning 🌞 West TN! I’m walking into the Studio’s of WNWS 101.5 FM Radio on this cloudy, stormy ⛈ Spring morning! I am joining the host of Everybody Talks – The Silky Chinchilla himself, aka: Seabass on Jackson TN’s #1 Talk Radio Show! Everybody Talk’s! 💥
LOTS of stuff happening in Jackson TN this weekend! Tune in… We will tell you all about it 📻 Call in! Be part of it! 1-731-423-8101
Lots of stuff happening in the garden right now! Spring Is Here!!!
– Is YOUR Garden ready? Till in some Compost & Manure!
– It’s time for the Design and planting of shrubs and trees!
– Clean up! Composting! Leaves and clippings are Gold!
– Time to clean up our Water Gardens!
PLUS – Cool Season Lawns! Aeration and over-seeding of fescue. Cool season vegetable gardening! Mulching. More…
Plus tomorrow is our Annual Pond Maintenance Workshop!
Call in! 1-731-423-8101
Text in! 1-731-277-5155
Carters Nursery is open to serve you today until 4pm. Drop by and say Hi 😊
We have Everything for your Pond and Water Garden at Carters Nursery Pond & Patio. From Seasonal Food and Water Treatments to Filters and Supplies, we have you covered!
Tomorrow- Saturday, April 1st. is our annual Spring Pond Maintenance Workshop. Here’s a video with more info.
Fridays on the radio are something I always look forward to! Its gonna be fun! Give us a call 731-423-8101.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
– I’m on Everybody Talks with Sea Bass Fridays from 9-11am Call in with ALL your Outdoor Living questions 731-423-8101
Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
Ph.# 731-424-2206
http://www.cartercountry.com
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Good Morning 🌞 Jackson & West TN! I’m walking into the Studio’s of WNWS 101.5 FM Radio on this Chilly 🥶 Damp almost Spring morning! It’s about to go down with the Silky Chinchilla, aka: Seabass on Jackson TN’s #1 Talk Radio Show! Everybody Talk’s! 💥
LOTS of stuff happening in Jackson TN this weekend! Tune in… We will tell you all about it 📻
Lots of stuff happening in the garden right now! Including record setting COLD weather coming! 😮 Stay ahead of the coming Spring… How you ask…
– By Trimming trees, including the ever popular Crepe Myrtle! Do it asap!
– Clean up under your fruit trees! And apply dormant oil!
– It’s time for the Design and planting of shrubs and trees!
– Composting! Leaves and clipping galore!
– Time to clean up our Water Gardens!
PLUS – Cool Season Lawns! Aeration and over-seeding of fescue. Cool season vegetable gardening! More…
Did you know you can text us? Texting us is so easy! 731-277-5155 Give us a shout out with your questions and comments. We will read them live and try to answer your questions 🙏🏻
Call in! 1-731-423-8101
Text in! 1-731-277-5155
Carters Nursery is open to serve you today until 4pm. Drop by and say Hi 😊
We have Everything for your Pond and Water Garden at Carters Nursery Pond & Patio. From Seasonal Food and Water Treatments to Filters and Supplies, we have you covered!
Saturday, April 1st. is our annual Spring Pond Maintenance Workshop. Here’s a video with more info.
Fridays on the radio are something I always look forward to! Its gonna be fun! Give us a call 731-423-8101.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
– I’m on Everybody Talks with Sea Bass Fridays from 9-11am Call in with ALL your Outdoor Living questions 731-423-8101
Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
Ph.# 731-424-2206
http://www.cartercountry.com
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Good Morning 🌞 Jackson & West TN! I’m walking into the Studio’s of WNWS 101.5 FM Radio on this Chilly 🥶 Gorgeous’Spring’ morning! It’s about to go down with my main man Seabass on Jackson TN’s #1 Talk Radio Show! Everybody Talk’s! 💥
LOTS of stuff happening in Jackson TN this weekend! Tune in… We will tell you all about it 📻
Lots of stuff happening in the garden right now! Folks we are officially in March! 😮 The whole world is waking up 🌞 Stay ahead of the coming Spring… How you ask…
– By Trimming trees, including the ever popular Crepe Myrtle! Do it asap!
– Clean up under your fruit trees! And apply dormant oil!
– It’s time for the Design and planting of shrubs and trees!
– Composting! Leaves and clipping galore!
– Time to clean up our Water Gardens!
PLUS – Cool Season Lawns! Aeration and over-seeding of fescue. Cool season vegetable gardening! More…
Did you know you can text us? Texting us is so easy! 731-277-5155 Give us a shout out with your questions and comments. We will read them live and try to answer your questions 🙏🏻
Call in! 1-731-423-8101
Text in! 1-731-277-5155
Carters Nursery is open to serve you today until 4pm. Drop by and say Hi 😊
We have Everything for your Pond and Water Garden at Carters Nursery Pond & Patio. From Seasonal Food and Water Treatments to Filters and Supplies, we have you covered!
Saturday, April 1st. is our annual Spring Pond Maintenance Workshop. Here’s a video with more info.
Fridays on the radio are something I always look forward to! Its gonna be fun! Give us a call 731-423-8101.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
– I’m on Everybody Talks with Sea Bass Fridays from 9-11am Call in with ALL your Outdoor Living questions 731-423-8101
Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
Ph.# 731-424-2206
http://www.cartercountry.com
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Filed under: Family time, Food, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Love, Outdoor Lifestyles, Sunday Reflections, Sunrises, Sunsets | Tags: After the Storm, Blessed, Blessings, Breakfast, Brunch, Chickens, Count Your Blessings, Electrical Outage, From My Window, Fun, Hurricane, Loss of power, Storm Damage, Storm Water Retention, Sunday, Sunday Breakfast, Sunday Brunch, Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Sunday Mornings, Sunday Reflection’s, Window
We woke up this morning to electricity ⚡️ Yes! Lights 💡 running water 🚿 ICE! 🧊 Wow 🤩 Not having these basics at your fingertips for just a couple of days is… Strange to say the least. We are so use to having them, we can completely take it for granted that they will always be there at the exact moment we need them…
80 MPH strait line winds are no joke! Think Hurricane… I was downtown in the radio studio when it hit – 💥 It shook the whole building! The roof on the building across the street started peeling off and flying down the street 🌬 Traffic cones and barrels were flipping down the street, cartwheeling into parked cars and flying through the air. Trees were snapping, so were the power lines! The signal went out, along with all streaming and phone lines. It was one of the worst storm scenes I have ever witnessed, and it was over in a matter of minutes.
This is the window I watched the debris blown hurricane force wind storm through ☝🏼 But I really saw the damage that was done on the ride home. Trees down everywhere! Power poles and lines down all over town. Debris, trash cans, barrels, toys, clothes, you name it were blown into piles everywhere you looked. Wow! Then when I got home… No power. I wasn’t surprised after seeing the level of damage. Luckily, no one here was hurt 🙏🏻 We had some damage, but nothing we couldn’t clean up and repair. Then we sat down and expected the power to pop back on any minute. But it didn’t. None Friday, none Friday night. So we were forced to close Saturday. No power all day… But, they did restore power over night and this morning, we had lights and water🚿 a HOT Shower was nice 😊
- Thank you 🙏🏻 to all the hard working men and women who worked day and night for 2 days to clean all that mess up and get the town back up and running. We are fortunate to have dedicated folks to take care of business like this! ❤️
So what did we do to pass the time? Here’s a little video for ya’ Entertainment is where you find it 😊
“If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”
~ George Gobel
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Mark C.
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I’m walking in the door of 101.5 studios in this dark stormy ⛈ morning. I am about to sit down with Seabass on Everybody Talks and bring you some sunshine 🌞
LOTS of stuff happening in Jackson TN!
Lori was just giving a rundown of ALL the stuff going in this weekend… WOW! Literally dozens of Live Music Shows, festival’s and MORE!
AND, lots of stuff happening in the garden right now!
– Trimming trees, including the ever popular Crepe Myrtle!
– Clean up under your fruit trees! And apply dormant oil!
– Design and planting of shrubs and trees!
– Composting!
And so much more! Call in and we can talk about it 731-423-8101.
Did you know you can text us? Texting us is so easy! 731-277-5155 Give us a shout out with your questions!
2 words – CALL IN! 731-423-8101
Thanks and have a great weekend!
– I’m on Everybody Talks with Sea Bass Fridays from 9-11am Call in with ALL your Outdoor Living questions 731-423-8101
Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
Ph.# 731-424-2206
http://www.cartercountry.com
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2023 is definitely off to a quick start for me. Back to work is an understatement… But certain things slow you down to pay homage and reflect on. Like my son turning 21 this past week ❤️ Milestones like this really make you reflect. Saying “time flies” just doesn’t tell the story, but in a way it does sum it up… Time is such an illusion. It slips right through our grasp and pours through our fingers, and we can never get it back. We have had a lot of time well spent together! I’ve made a point to spend as much time as possible with my family and with my son over the past 21 years! And the only regrets I can think of are the few things we didn’t get to do… YET! I feel very blessed to have him in my life and I look forward to what the future may bring.
The future looks bright for my little (6’3”) 21 year old son. What an impressive man he has become. 🙏🏻❤️
Sunday brunch and coffee are forthcoming ☕️ 🍳
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend” ~ Theophrastus
Have a great Sunday!
~ Mark C.
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A new year and I have been busy planning for it! Business plan, events, pond tours, workshops, jobs, early buys, plant orders and more… I haven’t missed a sunrise or sunset in 2023 yet! No it’s not a resolution… But I do really enjoy watching both 🌞🌅 Here’s a little collage of some of 2023’s best from the Beach!
Now is when the real work begins…
“Sunrise looks spectacular in nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!”
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mark C.
Carter's Water Garden 