I'm so sorry for your loss Wayne. Your are certainly right that tomorrow is promised to no one. With each step I take toward my final day, the more I find things matter less and people more.On Tuesday I made a Thanksgiving post on this thread. I mentioned my good friend, Milton by name.
His Angels took him home early this morning. His passing has shaken me up so much I can barely type. I talked about a lady I have known all my life struggling with cancer. Hoping she would live long enough to see chestnuts bear from tree genetics from her dad's trees. Tomorrow is promised to none of us.
Milton loved his grandkids and spending time with them on the farm, planting and hunting. He was an Auburn Fan, head to toe. Most of all Milton was just a friend to all, genuine and kind. He loved growing tomatoes and sharing them with people far and wide. His mom instilled that passion in him. Milton grew tomatoes on a pier at his lake house. Why? Because the pier provided the only full sunlight available.
Milton has a small greenhouse which I enjoyed reading about. In a few years, I built my own greenhouse due to seeing his and another friend's greenhouse.
If not for the old QDMA Forum I would have never met and got to know this great man. I pray for all of his family in this time of loss. Enjoy your family and friends while you can as we never know when our Angels gonna take us home or them.
Milton Charles Lovelady Obit
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Obituary information for Milton Charles Lovelady
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The family will greet friends on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at 1:30pm at Rehobeth Baptist Church in Lawley, AL (11518 Deer Creek Rd, Lawley, AL 36793). The graveside service will follow at 2:30pm, at the church’s cemetery. Martin Funeral Home directing.
They killed Darling. I don't know if that is good or bad. Science often goes down rabbit holes that need to be terminated to redirect resources to other paths. There is always controversy when a line of research is killed. I don't know enough about the specifics of Darling's transgenic research to have an opinion.What change has occurred?
The Darling line isn't totally dead. "Darling 58" is likely dead. In short, in testing the Darling 58 trees, their offspring were not doing well. BUT, and here's the kicker, someone at SUNY apparently mislabeled a non D58 tree as D58, so some of the distributed pollen used in the "testing" trees were not from D58. It's still a bit unclear exactly which trees offspring weren't doing well. Because of this mix-up TACF and SUNY have "broken up". Time and money were wasted testing the wrong trees, so some frustration is to be expected. There's a "Chestnut Chat" zoom call on Friday 12/15 to discuss in more detail. Who knows what will be said, as it's TACF's Zoom.They killed Darling. I don't know if that is good or bad. Science often goes down rabbit holes that need to be terminated to redirect resources to other paths. There is always controversy when a line of research is killed. I don't know enough about the specifics of Darling's transgenic research to have an opinion.
Wayne, thanks for all you do for everyone, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.I want to wish all users on this forum a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Those that celebrate differently from me, I pray you and yours enjoy your holiday season too.
I am a very blessed man, been married to same wonderful lady over 50 years. Retired and enjoy the fruits of my and her labor without worry. My son and daughter have always been a great source of pride as they are responsible adults who give back to their community. My grandkids are growing up rapidly. This week I have been helping my son as we remodel a house that Hunter Wayne Pruett is purchasing at the age of 21. Hunter has worked hard on saving his $$ so he can swing this. He has an excellent computer job, he is a software engineer but we call him a computer nerd. Good news is he is paid like an engineer, not a nerd.
People are the most important thing in my life, not things. All of my grandkids are headed in the right direction which is no easy task in the times we live in.
I love this forum! Why do I feel this way. The users and contributors here help people improve their land, giving back to wildlife. On Facebook and other social platforms, you ask a question and get all kinds of smart a$$ replies, not on our forum. This forum was formed because QDMA pulled the plug on a great forum, due to greed IMO. I am thankful for helpful nature of all who post here.
This thread didn't start here, it started on the QDMA forum. 2023 is gonna be my best year ever, I am gonna have over 500 chinese chestnut seedlings I have given away. I am waiting on the High School FFA Class to give me numbers of some chestnuts to know my final numbers.
Does it cost me $$. Yes, it does but it is my only charity I give to other than our local church and Hands for Hope (food bank). I am 70 years old and started Deer Hunting at the age of 12 when to see a deer was cause for celebration in Middle Tennessee. I still remember the first gang of deer we ever flushed out of a partially picked cornfield around 1968. So, the way I look at it, I have a long way to close the balance between my giving back verses what I have enjoyed chasing the whitetail deer.
I have stopped shipping chestnuts or seedlings, instead giving seedlings in my area of Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. I along with Milton Lovelady's family and friends are gonna get 100 Wildlife Trees planted in the fall of 2024 in his honor. Lakngolf was a very generous man in his area of Alabama, so we are gonna give back in his honor.
Gonna get off here and go work on the house my grandson is about to buy. God's Speed to all of you in this Habitat Family we have built together.
Wayne Pruett
Portland, TN Dec 2023