Posted on 8/20/2010 at 3:25:13 PM
Bev and I are looking forward to hosting the 7th Annual Ledbetter-Armstrong Reunion next year. After researching several different locations around the Southeast and debating some early summer dates, we decided to have the reunion at the Dothan National Golf Club in Dothan, Alabama on the weekend of June 17-19.
Dothan National is a full service hotel/resort with ninety newly renovated rooms and all of the amenities necessary to accommodate our annual gathering, including:
- Full Service Restaurant and Lounge With Catering Services
- 3 Large Banquet and Meeting Rooms
- 19 Hole Golf Course With Full-Service Pro Shop, Putting Green & Driving Range
- Olympic Size Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Indoor Natural Hot Mineral Springs Pool
- Workout Room
For those families who wish to plan an extended vacation around this weekend, the Tri States (Wiregrass) area is less than seventy miles to the World’s Most Beautiful Beaches and the Emerald Coast, as well as numerous attractions in Southeast Alabama, Northwest Florida, and Southwest Georgia, including:
Stay Tuned! We will be making more announcements as soon as we finalize all of the details.
Posted on 8/17/2010 at 5:23:46 AM
Born April 26, 2008
Great-great granddaughter of Oscar and Augusta Ledbetter
Granddaughter of Larry and Virginia Withrow
Daughter of Carole Withrow Clark and Adan Dean Clark
Posted on 8/5/2010 at 11:54:18 AM
Hey Everyone
Saturday we got home from a little shopping trip and were greeted by a very nice looking indigo snake on the front walk. Cody was worrying it to death, but the snake was holding it’s own and for some reason refused to simply uncoil and slip away, preferring instead to stand it’s ground and smack Cody’s nose with shot after well placed shot, which Cody ignored like they weren’t even happening. I guess certain skills are never forgotten as it didn’t take but a minute and a short stick to have the snake well in hand. It was about 4~4.5 feet long. I took it over to the barn and turned it out in the brush to help with rodent control and also to keep Cody from being able to get it before it got some cover.
Fast forward to yesterday and I had Abby on a leash, taking her out for a pee break. We were walking on the old driveway out by the barn when out of the privet slides a big old, fat as heck velvet tail rattler no more than a few feet ahead of where the dogs and I were standing. Lucky for the pups I spotted the thing before they did and got them turned around and headed back to the house before they had a chance to go after it. I locked them up and grabbed the shotgun and went back out to see if I could find Mr. no shoulders. By the time I got back outside he was nowhere in sight, but I kept hunting him because I knew if I didn’t find him Cody surely would at some later time. After some rather tense poking around in the bushes, I spotted him in the high grass on the little bank behind the old driveway, about halfway between the barn and the house, steady making his way toward the house. I made a lucky shot and managed to take his head off clean just behind the jaw line. To keep Cody from getting too familiar with this thing, I carried it over to the deck and placed it in a big old fan housing I think was once used to hold that big stag horn fern. It’s only got some dirt in it now, and was resting on the corner of the deck rail up off the ground. I let Cody out and he bee lined for the fan guard and stood there for a good hour sniffing and acting for all the world like he thought there was something alive in that fan guard. I would soon learn there might be more to Cody than I give him credit for.
A couple of hours later I happened to look out the window and to my surprise didn’t see Cody or the snake carcass in the fan guard. I went to see what was up with the mystery snake and surprise, surprise, the snake had crawled out of the fan guard and halfway down the bank headed under the deck before it finally gave up the ghost. Cody was skulking around, but to his credit was not getting too close. I climbed down the bank to get the thing so Cody wouldn’t finally get over his caution and rip it up. I bent over to pick it up and just as I got it and started to stand up the damn thing started buzzing its tail like crazy. It scared me to death and I almost went ass over teacup down the bank before I realized it was completely headless and had been that way for several hours. Apparently that buzz was his last act of defiance as he never moved again after I put him back in the fan guard. I think it’s now safe to say my heart is in pretty good shape as it was going ninety to nothing but didn’t blow up from what I would characterize as a most comprehensive stress test.
I went out to measure it this morning and found that something had chewed a fairly decent chunk off the front end of the carcass sometime in the night. With that piece missing it still measured out to just under 5 feet and had 13 rattles and a button. Were it not for the pups and Pat, I would have most likely let it go on its way, but there was no chance with so much precious cargo knocking around the place. I thought about trying to catch it up and taking it over to Turkey creek, for about half a minute before deciding I’m too old (and much too slow) any more to chance taking on a big rattler, or any rattler for that matter. Much as I hate to admit it, any buzz tail showing its mug on this place is not going to last long if I have any say in the matter. Either way, I’m sure ya’ll are just breathless with excitement over my lamenting the passage of time being such that I’m resigned to killing one of nature’s most perfect predators without even giving it an even chance. Oh well…..the top of the food chain is still the top of the food chain, and to be perfectly candid I’ve grown more than a little comfortable in my place there so I’ll not lose any sleep over what I’ve got to do to hold on to the head of the line out here at the end of the line. Well, it’s not actually the end of the line, but you can see it from here, and I wouldn’t have it any other way
Love to all and hope to see everyone soon.
Peace Out
Joe & Pat
Posted on 5/5/2010 at 7:52:39 PM
Michael Ledbetter got word from his father, Howard Ledbetter, that some of the Armstrong family members will be involved in Decoration Day at Graves Gap Church Saturday, May, 8 in Hayden, Alabama.
Nathan Armstrong and others are buried at Graves Gap Church – up a steep grade from where Augusta Cleo Armstrong Ledbetter’s mother lived (near Hayden). Also, 2 Ledbetter boys (JW & Junior as Dad calls them) are buried there. JW & Junior were Joe Ledbetter and (Delia?) Guthrie Ledbetter’s sons (kin to Kate Guthrie Ellard Collier and Edward Guthrie (my grandfather). Decoration Day for the cemetary is probably cleanup and Decorating for the Memorial Day rememberances at the end of May.
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Posted on 5/3/2010 at 6:06:53 AM
CMW’s ‘Aladdin Jr.’ promotes spectacle of theater
Director adds animal parade, acrobatics and belly dancers to Disney tale
STEVENSVILLE – Director Susan Withrow always asks one question during auditions.
“I ask them to show me their stupid human tricks,” she says. “We usually get 25 kids who can do the worm and at least one who can twist their body in all kinds of different ways. But this time we had a kid, Natalie Smiy, come up and say, ‘I think I need to show you my special trick.’ What she can do is aerial acrobatics. You know, with fabrics hanging from the ceiling? Think Cirque du Soleil. As soon as I saw that, I knew it had to be in this show.”
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Posted on 1/24/2010 at 11:43:10 PM
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