So the Stoneville/Greenville adventure is off to an interesting start. I came up here 2 weeks ago to find an apartment and got lost in cornfield. Not fun. Then I turned around and headed to Ruston after returning to NO. Back to NO in time for mom to head to Ruston.
Dad began demolishing the kitchen so mom can finally get her new one. This was interesting timing since I was packing up. On Sunday afternoon I headed up to Greenville. I got in Sunday night and hit Wal-Mart so as to have something besides apartment complex carpet to sleep on, one air matress and pack of toilet paper later and I was able to try to settle in.
I need to get a new cell phone plan thanks to the fact that this is the middle of nowhere. I tried to go to Cingular today, but no luck. The people there were completely useless, I will try again tomorrow.
I did drive around a bit today, it is going to be amusing for some of you. The sights around here are....umm.......interesting. That is sort of the motivation behind the blog.
On a work related note. Louisiana is estimating that 50% of cotton acreage from last year is in corn this year. The same appears to be true for Mississippi. The pictures are of my drive up MS-61. This used to be nothing but cotton, now it is 50/50 corn and cotton. A lot of farmers are gambling on corn, but the drought conditions across much of the cotton belt are going to hurt them. For those who don't know, cotton takes more water then anyother crop, however in a drought it produces something, even if it is crap; corn just burns up in a drought....not good.
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