I have Jeff Foxworthy and welcome to Gamekeeper Podcast.

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Three, two, one.

Okay, guys, so spring is here.

Turkey season has opened in some states.

Others just around the beans here.

Here and there. It's going to be a full foliage spring, it appears to me. Already has. Already is. Yeah. But as it moves north, don't you all think everybody else is going to be experiencing the same thing? It's going to be some glean leaf. Mm-hmm. A little bit. Pecans are not showing yet. True. They're the last thing. Pecons don't lie. So what did y'all notice got frosted? Grass in my yard. I've seen grass. I've seen the fig at your cabin. Got it? And some other figs. My saw too, sir. Did they get beans? And then I've noticed red mulberry got it this show. Oh, I do have red mulberry got it. Could it possibly have hurt my blueberries? Because they had bloomed a little. I don't think so. They're more cold tolerant. The Chickasaw plums out here at the office that nobody's allowed to ever collect. They didn't get it. My mulberry got it. I looked at yesterday. like, what's wrong with that? But now I'm just right with it. I've got all those beautiful blueberries there behind the house. And I looked at them this morning. And they've got less than half in blooms. And I don't know if that was from the drought last fall. I did water them. Some I thought. But they're definitely been affected by something.

I'm going to have maybe a third, and it's just like an entire side. Actually, it's kind of weird the

north side of them. Is what? Is what doesn't have blooms? Yes. Hmm. Seems like that would make

sense. So the kind of the tops and more to the south, and then there's like nothing. One of them is covered in blooms and the other ones are all partial. I've never seen that. I think they're pretty sensitive to frost. Now that you brought that up, I bet that's what did it. I was thinking we got because of the Vesias that started to bloom, didn't bother them. I was hoping our oak trees fared well. They looked okay, the ones I looked at. But it's hard to tell until they put them out. The leaves that came out on my saltoes are just scorched. Oh, really? Yeah, all of them. That's not good. That's not good at all. What about your native oaks? Yeah, how your native oaks does. You know, it's hard to tell. You're not as far along. You're real oaks. You're authentic oaks. Look, okay, I enjoy talking all this stuff with y'all, but we've got a guest here. We've driven a long way to be here. Let's get him introduced. We've got Mr. James Bice. In the house. In studio. His name is spelled B-U-I-C-E, which would

look like juice, but it's Bice. So the U is silent here. It's actually Bucet. It's French.

We do.

So.

Part of Bouté, B-B-S-E. I mean, I've been like, so been a fan of your dad.

Oh, we need to say he, gosh, this, this earlier this year, he lost him.

And we all lost him.

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