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PLANTING DAYS ACCORDING TO MOON SIGNS
Above-ground crops: 2, 3, 7, 25,26, 29, 30
Root crops: 8, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22
Seed beds: 11,12,13,21,22
Kill plant pests: 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
23, 24, 27, 28
FISHING DAYS FOR NOVEMBER 2022
Best: 2,3, 11, 12, 13,29, 30
Good: 1, 7, 8, 27, 28
Fair: 5, 6, 9, 10, 16, 17,18, 21, 22, 26
Poor: 4, 14, 15, 19,20,2,24,25
PLANTING TABLE FOR NOVEMBER
Gardens: Smooth seeded English peas, strawberry plants,
cabbage plants, onion sets, mustard, spinach, kale, and rape
Flowers: Continue to transplant perennials, divide
and reset old bulbs, plant hyacinths, tulips, jonquils,
daffodils, crocus, larkspur, poppies, ragged robin,
cosmos and other flowers suggested for October list.
Lawns: Continue to plant grasses of all kinds and
apply fertilizer to lawns, shrubbery with peat moss
and also use a light mulching around perennial plants.
The Farm
Wife
at Two Pennies Farm
“Before the Storm”
You can hear it coming. The never-ending music
of our two largest wind chimes increases in tempo
and volume. The loose tin on the old shed’s roof
twangs and bangs. The whoosh of the wind is
amplified by the big leaves of the old magnolia, and
the doors of the house creak in time with the give
and take of the air pressure. You don’t need The
Weather Channel to tell you a storm’s coming.
We used to have an outdoor weather station
that gave us barometric pressure and wind speed
readings. We quickly learned that sustained winds
over 19 miles per hour would blow the furniture
right off the front porch. Coming from the right
direction, it would also cause the porch swing to
move from side to side hitting the house like a
battering ram. Here on the farm rain is not as
damaging as the wind. It rips the old metal roof on
the shed, breaks furniture blowing it off the porch,
knocks out the power, and more. Over time we have
developed quite the storm preparation list to lessen
the damage and keep us and ours safe.
Rather than try to remember everything that
needs to be done in the face of a storm, I keep a list
on my computer and print it out as needed. Preps
for a really bad storm began three days out before
we bought our generator. Day 1 we laid in supplies
of food, water, feed for the animals, prescriptions,
and got new reading materials from the library. Day
2 we started cooking meals for a week, which was
the usual amount of time our power was out, and
catching up the laundry. Day 3 we got the animals
prepared to be shut in the barn for the duration
of the storm, finished cleaning the house and
took showers. Having a generator has eliminated
the pre-storm cooking and cleaning, and I highly
recommend having one if at all possible.
Taking livestock through a bad storm has been
enlightening. The goats don’t care what is going on
outside as long as they’re not getting wet and have
plenty of hay to munch. The chickens get cranky
and will fight if they are confined during a storm, so
they need an escape board in their coop. That way
the lower status ones can get away without having
to go outside. I couldn’t believe that horses and
ponies are left outside when there’s a storm, but
they really are safer that way. During the worst of a
storm they may shelter in the lee of a building, but
generally they turn their butts to the wind and wait
it out. I’ve seen Storm, my pony, calmly grazing in
the midst of a downpour. When I checked him, his
outer-coat was wet, but it had protected his inner
coat, and his skin was dry.
One odd bit of storm damage we’ve made
acquaintance with is horses colicking after a storm.
The theory is that while a horse will graze in the
midst of a storm, they may not drink enough, and
then they get a bit of an impaction. One solution is
to provide a water buffet after a storm. This is just
a variety of buckets of water with an assortment of
flavors added in: molasses, Gatorade, apple juice,
anything the horse likes that may encourage him to
drink more. It does seem to help.
With 30 hours of wind and rain predicted,
tomorrow might just be a day to stay inside reading
and resting. I’d better go get everyone ready.*
^Written pre-Nicole.
"THE HUNTING GUY"
Duck Hunting Season
Opened November 19
Waterfowl hunters - get ready for
the 2023 Duck Season
Have you headed to your favorite wetland location
for a day of Georgia duck hunting ?
If not, the season opened on Sat., November 19,
2022.
“Waterfowl hunters should note a few bag limit
changes this year - the hooded merganser restriction
has been removed, so ‘hoodies’ can account for
any or all of the merganser bag limit of five per
day.“Additionally, the sea duck limit has been
reduced to four per day, only three of which may be
scoters, long-tailed ducks, or eiders and only one may
be a female eider.”
Duck season dates are November 19-27 and Dec.
10 - Jan. 29. Full migratory bird hunting regulations
can be found at GeorgiaWildlife.com/migratory-bird-
info.
Remember that a license is required to duck hunt.
In Georgia, you will need a Georgia hunting license,
a Georgia migratory bird license, and a federal duck
stamp (now available when you purchase your other
recreational licenses). WRD has made your purchase
decision even easier by the creation of the Waterfowl
Hunter Package at GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com, which
includes all the licenses you need and includes a
plastic license card.
For more information on Georgia Hunting
Regulations for waterfowl, visit GeorgiaWildlife.com/
migratory-bird-info.
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Pro ball player
Adrian Peterson
addresses students
Sarah Saxon
Reporter
Adrian Peterson, former Georgia Southern Hall
of Famer came to the Screven County Elementary
School on Thursday evening to talk with parents
and students about overcoming his obstacles and
the avenues he went down to make it to where he is
today.
Starting at the age of 5, Peterson attended speech
therapy due to his stuttering problems.
He chose Georgia Southern because it was closer for
his parents to visit. While at GSU, he started speech
therapy with Sharon Thomas Milner, a Screven
County native, and speech therapist for the Screven
County School System.
After graduating from Georgia Southern, he was
chosen as a sixth-round draft choice of the Chicago
Bears in 2002 and was a Super Bowl XLI participant.
Among his accomplishments, he was chosen for
the 1999 Walter Payton Award Winner, 1999 SoCon
Offensive Player of the Year and the 2001 the SoCon
Offensive Player of the Year.
In 2017, he was inducted into the College Football
Hall of Fame and his No. 3 jersey was retired. He was
a unanimous choice for induction into the Georgia
Southern Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2012 in the
first year of eligibility.
After the meal, Peterson handed out the signed
footballs to those who won in the drawing.
Peterson, who is currently the director of Director of
Student Athlete
Development
at Georgia
Southern and
he and his
wife are the
parents of four
children.
Adrian speaks
to the crowd
at elementary
school, (photo by
Sarah Saxon)
