JOBU'S LOCKER

Saturday, November 27, 2010

You know the story of the three wise men. But have you heard the story of the two busy bodies?

Still harvest season here.

Couldn't pass up an open farmer's market.

Just couldn't pass up a good deal.

Thee dollars for a pile of chritmas tree trimmings. We just had to have em,

Because "Liquor" just sounds evil, Down here it's "Package" store. We live in the middle of a dry county so a Package store is a twenty mile drive any direction, Lucky I gave it up but I need it for cooking and the girls wanted wine, so a beautiful fall drive to Palmetto with the ladies. I really think that Coweta county is dry because the moonshiners have a really powerful lobby group but that's niether here nor there. Package stores do know their customers here vey well. Because package stores are magnets for inebriated patrons, let's sink rail road rails deep in conctrete in front of the store in case they think it's a drive through.

Macy's Parade at the Barbie Beach in Turin Ga,

Friday, November 26, 2010

Marilyn Munroe had nothing on these kids.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thank you God

Good food with good friends. Is there anything better?

Cooking and carving.

Yep, they grow em big down here.

What a find on turkey day!

A walk through Oak Hill Cemetery

Went out for a walk on this beautiful fall day. Ended up at the very old and very large Oak Hill Cemetery. Many confederate soldiers burried here.

Fallen at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Say what you will about the cause for which they fought, this guy had courage. Sherman had kicked their ass all the way from Tennessee and they took their stand north of Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain. They lost but at a great cost to the union army. But this battle broke the back of the confederate army guarding the industrial giant of Atlanta.

Georgia is a state of proud fighters from way back.

This gentleman fought in the indian wars.

Time and pressure.

This stone slab has been laying here 150 years. When layed it was as straight as an arrow. It has slowly begun to sag under its own weight yet not broken.

This Day In History

On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein, a serial killer infamous for skinning human corpses, dies of complications from cancer in a Wisconsin prison at age 77. Gein served as the inspiration for writer Robert Bloch’s character Norman Bates in the 1959 novel Psycho, which in 1960 was turned into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Edward Theodore Gein was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on July 27, 1906, to an alcoholic father and domineering mother, who taught her son that women and sex were evil. Gein was raised, along with an older brother, on an isolated farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. After Gein’s father died in 1940, the future killer’s brother died under mysterious circumstances during a fire in 1944 and his beloved mother passed away from health problems in 1945. Gein remained on the farm by himself. In November 1957, police found the headless, gutted body of a missing store clerk, Bernice Worden, at Gein’s farmhouse. Upon further investigation, authorities discovered a collection of human skulls along with furniture and clothing, including a suit, made from human body parts and skin. Gein told police he had dug up the graves of recently buried women who reminded him of his mother. Investigators found the remains of 10 women in Gein’s home, but he was ultimately linked to just two murders: Bernice Worden and another local woman, Mary Hogan. Gein was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was sent to a state hospital in Wisconsin. His farm attracted crowds of curiosity seekers before it burned down in 1958, most likely in a blaze set by an arsonist. In 1968, Gein was deemed sane enough to stand trial, but a judge ultimately found him guilty by reason of insanity and he spent the rest of his days in a state facility. In addition to Psycho, films including Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs were said to be loosely based on Gein’s crimes.