Um Cecil, did you hit the post message button too soon?
Spill on that trip will ya, c'mon why so queit all of a sudden we members would like to hear your experience, not being nosey or nothing but tell us a little something.

Pewtty pwease?

Martin

Martin,

I posted a follow up on FFF, after you read it ya might know why I ain't fixin to post it here!

Cecil

I thought it over, here is what I said on Figs4fun forum
I hope I don't get in trouble for saying a few things, it was all in fun.Here it is!

Hi Guy's

Well we got up even before bright & early yesterday to go see Mr. James Robin.We got there about 10Am, JR was still in his pajamas, now that was a sight.....HEHE, I had saw a picture of hin on the Web, it musta bee doctored (sorry about that Leon)but I thought JR was taller, heck he has to use a step ladder to pick strawberrys!
First rattle out of the bag at JR's house was meeting "Bob" now that was an experiance, Bob is a beautiful brown & white dog, that just lives to bite ya, Well I think I got my bluff in on him so I made it to JR door, knocked on it JR came and said hello Cecil, now I have never met him that I know of, I asked him how did he know it was me, he said he could smell a Texan for a mile, mind ya we wore a nice brand new shower to our visit with him, We met Ms Betty she is a super nice lady, to bad she has that terrible Alzheimer's disease, when she saw Fig picker she got a million dollar size on her pretty face, they did the hugging thing and She was really happy, which made Dorcas just as happy!
Ol Bob came in the house when Dorcas came in, she loves every dog she meets, she reached down to pet him, he started growling, James jumped up and put a muzzle on him, he got no aurgument out of us on that one, well we sat in JR'S little office and told lies to each other for about an hour, it was a tossup on who won the B/S session, but I really think the Cajun won that one(imagine that)A coon ass and a horses ass in a B/S contest!
Speaking of coon asses & horses's asses do yaw know the difference?........answer, the Sabine River, look it up!
James got dressed and we went out to look his place over, now mind ya bob was right on our trail, well I bent over to look at my little O'Rourke plant and Bob nudged me on the back of my leg, I'm here to tell ya, that wasn't the only thing I thought was on the back of my leg(it could have been a messy situation there if ya know what I'm talking about! As Martin sez, anyhoot, we pulled the plants out of their pots and looked for RKN, none was visible than goodness! I was going to put the plants inside our truck when JR spotted our little Yorkie, missy hot wheels, he fell in love with her, and started petting her, I told him to watch her she might try to bite him, it was too late she was about to kiss him to death......silly Dawg, Bob wanted a closer look but JR grabbed him before he could jump up on our truck which would have gave me a heart attack, not because of the dog, but I wasn't goofy about our truck getting all scratched up.
Well we visited some more, and told James we were fixin to head back west, he invited us to have lunch with him but we had Cajun food on our minds, the crawfish kind, he was having roast which is fine with us most times, but not when yer in Cajun country, we head out looking for good Cajun food, in no time we found it, pigged out on it and headed for Merrysville La. to Almost Eden's nursery to meet another very nice Cajun Gent. Mr. John McMillian
he gave us directions to his place and didn't miss one detail, we went straight past him and called him, we had overshot his runway bt two mailboxes....HEHE, we had a very nice visit with John and he showed us his operation like JR had did, both men had some very nice plants, both of them had a lot of plants that had figs on them I might add, anyhow Dorcas was walking Missy, and John pulled a leaf off one plant and told me to sniff that, I did, ya ain't gonna believe this it was what he called a popcorn plant, it smelled just like popcorn, doggone est thing I have ever sniffed of.....well maybe not...HAHA
We told John that I had trucked through Merrysville in the 60's to go around the Louisiana State scales(did I just say that?)
I told John that the bridge crossing the Sabine River at Merrysville use to be so narrow two cars could barely meet each other safely on it and no way two trucks could meet and still have their mirrors on the trucks, When we got to the river I'm here to tell ya, dem cajuns done got downtown yeah, that bridge is a nice un!

Well before i I close this B/S session, JR said to tell George, Herman and Fignut hello as well as you Mike in Fla.And anyone else he forgot.

We will update ya'll on the O'Rourke fig as time goes by.
Regards
Cecil

Thanks for the update Cecil. Any advise for a lay back Canadian visiting Cajun country? Apart from bringing the credit card, I heard there's a bunch of Canadians that moved to Cajun country during the English-French war and there are lots of alligators, giant catfish & crawl fish plus friendly people.

Today, I got a surprise call from JR!

He thanked me for me recently sending him a little (free)
Ficus afghanistanica starter plant, for both him and his wife
to enjoy. He said that it is doing very well, and both 'love'
its very beautiful leaves.

Of course, we talked a whole lot more about figs in general,
(the carica kind), including for me to be patient with the
leaves of the O'R fig that I bought last fall from him
(payed+ way in advance).

Also, he mentioned that he just had a recent visit by some
nice 'Texan couple', and that he enjoyed discussing
'fig-matters' with them.

Sooo, that must have been you; Cecil.

Enjoy your new fig acquisitions...

Yep George
That would be the Cecil Davis family and the little Yorkie!

We had a great visit, I got some things straight in my Mind!

James is Like George, an hones man without a doubt!

Regards

Cecil

And while we are on the O'Rourke subject!

I asked James where did he get his O'Rourke cuttings from?

His answer was short & sweet

LSU

Regards