Hey Cuz, we are all snowed in; you would think everyone would be on here gossipping away.  Everybody else is probably on Facebook, Twitter, or MYSpace, although I don't think many of them between our age groups are doing that.  My older brother hosted my family at Thanksgiving on Maddox Bay and all of my 10 siblings and families were on hand.  Most of us have aches and pains and some need daily medicine to treat permanent conditions but we were all in good health otherwise.  There are few trees left around the Hall farm if you have not been up in a while.  Mostly the sloughs and their thickets are left; the rest is in rice, corn, and soybeans.  The town of Holly Grove is a scary place to visit nowadays; lots of folks walking Pit Bulls on the sidewalks.  Holly Grove made the t.v. news last month when two duck hunters drowned in front of Webster's Landing after their boat swamped; there were six others with them who made it safely to shore.