Labor Day Weekend… It’s definitely nice to enjoy a few days off! There are still things that we have to do of course, but since we live at the Nursery & Gardens we also work for a living… It’s just another day in our routine…
Or is it?
This is my immediate family captured in an image.. by a very good photographer I might add 😉
I was reflecting on my labor in life, and In many ways my labor is my life… I mean, I literally live at the Nursery/Farm that I work for a living… There are no days off when there are plants to water (or they die!) and animals to feed & water (or they suffer &/or die)! So I have done what anyone in my situation has to do, I have embraced it wholeheartedly! And I LOVE my Family! My ‘everyday’ Lifestyle! And I LOVE MY Job! ❤️
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
Happy Labor Day 🇺🇸 to everyone that Labor’s out there! I hope you love your job too! 🙏🏻
I am in the studios of WNWS 101.5 FM, in downtown Jackson – AND-ITS-ON!!! I’m going LIVE from 9-11 am with the 2 most talented guys in show-business! Seabass and Chuck Walker! Join us NOW on “Everybody Talks”!
I’m on today 9-11am Call in and lets have some FUN!
We will be talking – Outdoor Living, Koi Ponds, Cool Season Gardening, freezing weather, Christmas lights, Santa AND Just about anything else that YOU want to talk about! Ask a question, send in a picture, share a story (but please, NO politics! It’s Christmas!🎄 Call in and join us – 731-423-8101
For 20 years, Ive been involved with this Friday Talk Show and it just keeps getting better! The # is still the same – 731-423-8101
You know you can listen, and you can call in and talk, the # is the same that it has been for over 20 years – 731-423-8101. But, did you know you can text your comments and questions?
Please Text us at 731-277-5155 its easy and we always try to answer every text!
Drop by Carters Nursery for help with your Garden, Landscape and Koi Pond!
We are open today till 4pm to serve YOU!
We got what you need for your Fall/Winter Landscape & Garden!
Mulch
Too Soil
Manure
Soil Amendments
Flowers
Perennials
Aquatic Plants
Pond Fish (Koi, Shubunkin, Comets)
Pond Supplies
Fish Food
Fox Farm Products
Stone and Gravel
Visit our Unique Boutique’ and pick up some AWESOME gifts for Christmas🎅🏻
We have loads of unique gift items ready for YOU at our Boutique & Garden Center…
I am walking into the studios of WNWS 101.5 FM, in downtown Jackson, TN, I will be going LIVE from 9-11am with my main man Seabass and his partner in crime 👉🏻 Chuck Walker… Join us today on “Everybody Talks”! We will be talking – Outdoor Living, Koi Ponds, Gardening, Hummingbirds, Prepping for Fall, True Love and Just about whatever else that – YOU, want to talk about! Ask a question, send in a picture, share a story! Call in and join us! 731-423-8101 💥
The show has a new name, but it’s at the same station it has been for over 20 years! 👇🏻
You know you can call in and talk, the # is the same it has been for over 20 years – 731-423-8101. But, did you know you can text your comments and questions?
Text us at 731-277-5155. We always try to answer every text!
Give us a call this morning and lets have some FUN! 731-423-8101
You can also drop by Carters Nursery for help with your Garden, Landscape and Koi Pond!
We are open today till 4pm to serve YOU!
We got what you need for your Garden!
Mulch
Too Soil
Manure
Soil Amendments
Flowers
Perennials
Aquatic Plants
Pond Fish (Koi, Shubunkin, Comets)
Pond Supplies
Fish Food
Fox Farm Products
Stone and Gravel
We also have a YUGE supply of “Pond Stuff”…
Nets
Water Treatments
Filters
Skimmers
Pumps
Aeration Units
Floating Fountains
Underwater lights
Food
Deco Items
So much More…
Give us a call this morning and lets have some FUN! 731-423-8101
On a serious note, we need to pray 🙏🏻 for our troops abroad and our Countrymen that are desperately trying to get out of harms way in Afghanistan. Things are a mess and Gods Blessing is needed more than ever 🙏🏻
Prayers for our troops, our citizens abroad and may God Bless America 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am walking into the studios of WNWS 101.5 FM, in downtown Jackson, TN, I will be going LIVE from 9-11am with my main man Seabass and his accomplice Chuck Walker… Join us on the NEWLY NAMED SHOW – “Everybody Talks”! We will be talking – Outdoor Living, Koi Ponds, Gardening, Hummingbirds, True Love and Just about whatever else that – YOU, want to talk about! Ask a question, send in a picture, share a story! Call in and join us! 731-423-8101
You know you can call in and talk, the # is the same it has been for over 20 years – 731-423-8101. But, did you know you can text your comments and questions?
Text us at 731-277-5155. We always try to answer every text!
Give us a call this morning and lets have some FUN! 731-423-8101
You can also drop by Carters Nursery for help with your Garden, Landscape and Koi Pond!
We got what you need for your Garden!
Mulch
Too Soil
Manure
Soil Amendments
Flowers
Perennials
Aquatic Plants
Pond Fish (Koi, Shubunkin, Comets)
Pond Supplies
Fish Food
Fox Farm Products
Stone and Gravel
We also have a YUGE supply of “Pond Stuff”…
Nets
Water Treatments
Filters
Skimmers
Pumps
Aeration Units
Floating Fountains
Underwater lights
Food
Deco Items
So much More…
Give us a call this morning and lets have some FUN! 731-423-8101
Don’t forget our Garden Boutique… Gifts, clothes, garden deco… more
It’s Friday! Good Morning! I’m fixing to be walking into the studios of WNWS 101.5 FM, in downtown Jackson, TN! I will be going LIVE from 9-11am with Dan Reaves and Seabass on the 360! We will be talking about Outdoor Living, Koi Ponds, Spring Gardening and Whatever YOU want to talk about!
Call in today with your questions! We will make you famous… 731-891-6161It’s time to get your hands dirty!
It’s going to be a beautiful weekend! LOTS of stuff to do in the garden! – Planting! – Trimming and pruning! – Cleaning and Building Koi Ponds! – Design and planting of shrubs and trees! – Mulching! Etc…
Call us with your questions! When you call in, you get to set the discussion and ask the questions ☎️ 731-423-8101 or text us at 731-277-5155
It’s finally Friday! 101.5 FM WNWS – Tune in! Give us a call 📞
I’ve been up since early, but never found time for my BLOG today… I normally try to share a Waterfall on Mondays, so instead, how about one of my favorite poems about a special waterfall 😊
“Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day Fetched back from the thickening shroud of grey. Hence the only prime And real love-rhyme That I know by heart And that leaves no smart, Is the purl of a little valley fall About three spans wide and two spans tall Over a table of solid rock And into a scoop of the self-same block; The purl of a runlet that never ceases In stir of kingdoms, in wars, in peaces; With a hollow, boiling voice it speaks And has spoken since hills were turfless peaks.”
“And why gives this the only prime Idea to you of a real love-rhyme? And why does plunging your arm in a bowl Full of spring water, bring throbs to your soul?” “Well, under the fall, in a crease of the stone, Though where precisely none ever has known, Jammed darkly, nothing to show how prized, And by now with its smoothness opalised, Is a drinking-glass: For, down that pass, My love and I Walked under a sky Of blue with a leaf-wove awning of green, In the burn of August, to paint the scene, And we placed our basket of fruit and wine By the runlet’s rim, where we sat to dine; And when we had drunk from the glass together, Arched by the oak-copse from the weather, I held the vessel to rinse in the fall, Where it slipped, and sank, and was past recall, Though we stooped and plumbed the little abyss With long bared arms. There the glass still is. And, as said, if I thrust my arm below Cold water in basin or bowl, a throe From the past awakens a sense of that time, And the glass we used, and the cascade’s rhyme. The basin seems the pool, and its edge The hard smooth face of the brook-side ledge, And the leafy pattern of china-ware The hanging plants that were bathing there.
“By night, by day, when it shines or lours, There lies intact that chalice of ours, And its presence adds to the rhyme of love Persistently sung by the fall above. No lip has touched it since his and mine In turn therefrom sipped lovers’ wine.”
I Love designing and building Custom Water Features! So projects like this one are special. Building a feature as close to the look and feel of a “Natural Waterfall” was our goal on this one. Each project we do is a custom, one of a kind feature. In other words, creating Living, Moving Art is our business. From design to completion, From Dream to Reality! That’s what we do…
Pictures don’t do this feature justice! But, the pictures are pretty darn nice 😊 The team at Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio hit it out of the park on this one.
I hope you have a great #waterfallwednesday! It’s all downhill to the weekend from here! 😊
It’s #waterfallwednesday y’all! My Favorite Day of the week! This Fabulous little Pondless Waterfall was put here as a unique focal point in the forefront of a plant screen… PS: we didn’t want it to look like a hedgerow or “screening plants”… Boom 💥 Not only does it look great 24/7 thanks to the Landscape lighting, it sounds wonderful as well 🎶
We even put a small “seat boulder” there at front left for the “Perfect Picture” 😊
This is a recent Water Feature that I just love ❤️ It really transformed a boring area of the landscape. Now, it’s the Central Focal point of the entire area. At night the lights come on automatically and really throw some magic 💥 PLUS : The sound is beyond compare 😘 | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee
I hope your Waterfall Wednesday goes well! From here, it’s all downhill to the weekend 😉
Are you on Facebook? If not, you might find this interesting 🤔 If you are, then you know of what I speak… Everyday I get a picture that I personally posted, usually years ago, it just pops up in my home feed, it’s labeled as a “Facebook Memory” and it tells you exactly how many years ago that you originally posted it. Then you get to look back through the comments and likes, and if you want you can share it as a Story or to your feed and friends. At first, I didn’t know what to think about it, but I have grown to enjoy them and I usually share them again.
These pictures of our work that I have posted from years ago, just pop up as a “Facebook memory”… Actually pretty cool 😎 | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee
Today’s memory was 3 years old. A couple of days ago it was a 7 year memory that I had forgotten about…
What do YOU think 🤔 about the way social media like Facebook has changed our daily lives? How, if any, has it changed yours?
“Memories, brought to you by Facebook”…
Screenshot of what it looks like on your device. Do you look at these? Do you find it charming, or invasive? Just asking…
I have grown to think that it helps me share what I do. Our work at Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio is so visual! It’s hard to describe what we build so that you can form an accurate picture in your minds eye… So that picture you see, of what your backyard could actually look like, is worth a thousand words…
I’m writing this outside and it’s starting to rain 🌧 I hope you enjoyed it 😊
One of the things about running your own business is that things get, VERY busy! The old saying “If you want something done right, do it yourself” rings true daily… LOTS of hats 🧢 to wear… The daily grind can get overwhelming & you loose that line between your personal time/life and your business.
Don’t let your business run YOU! Take time to stay organized & to train your employees and yourself 🤔
I am switching my focus for the next couple of days to ‘organizing and training in my Business. As a business owner you find yourself constantly Performing! Work work work, perform, perform, perform! DON’T forget to train some as well! That is most of our (small business owners) biggest downfalls…
I made a commitment long ago to stay on top of Technology and of advances in my field. I also try to invest in my Team so that we ALL stay on top of our game! | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee
I’ve got to go to my next “Zoom Room” meeting now, so I want to wish everyone a good day!
PS: I will be sharing a few things I’m learning now with you soon.
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