Good Monday morning. It is cloudy and 75 here. I am going to town. I saw and talked to Lisa Younger at the sidewalk. I stopped by to visit with Angela Tapley at the baker drug store. Kathy come up to visit me. I called and talked to Fannie Smith. She is okay.
Someone asked me to include a bit of news in my column. On Saturday May 21 there will be a 50 wedding anniversary party for Charles and Audretta Passmore from 3 to 5 at the Donnie Chisum Church near Harps. If you can stop by and help Charles and Audretta celebrate their special day.
Snakes are out and about. Haven’t seen any except in the road and hoping it stays that way.
Beautiful day today. Just perfect for all those celebrating Mother’s Day with outdoor activities. We attended church this morning and was surprised by Sebrena and Phillip attending with us. There were several other visitors as well. After church we had a feast in the social room spearheaded by Sister Sue. There was turkey, dressing, ham, potatoes, salads, wow, it was a very good meal!
It is that time again, so I’ll say hi to everyone and hoe you are all doing well. As for us, we still have a few problems, but I won’t even get into that. We just take a day at a time and do the best we can. I know other people have problems of some kind, so I guess that is just part of life.
Wow! What a weekend in Snowball! It was a happening place on Saturday! As most of you know, all the rain we took in last week, proved to be too much for the river to handle, therefore our route had to be altered to exclude the river. We had to have a ‘moderate’ level before we could put participants on the river, and it was still ‘high’ on Saturday.
Hello to all of you Marshall Mountain Wave readers and greetings from the jewel of the Ozarks, Leslie, Arkansas. I have been gone from home for the past 2 weeks helping an elderly relative move from a very large house to a very small apartment. This kind of thing must be done with care and a lot of listening. Listening to a lot of stories about his life and many, many people that I will never know. I think it is important to listen to these stories as we downsized his life of the past 30 years he was living in this rather large house. Downsized to what was needed in his new much smaller apartment and much smaller life. That is part of getting older, your life can sometimes get much smaller. It is a shame that people don’t live in multigenerational homes so much anymore. If you find yourself helping an elderly person downsize their lives. Do it with as much kindness as you can muster. It is said that when an old person dies it is like a library has been burned to the ground.
Hope that everyone had a good week. We went down to Vonda’s and had supper at New China. The food was really good. After supper Vonda took us to a park. They had a lot of wood carvings large and small. There were two good bands playing and even a hot balloon you could ride in.
Hoping everyone had a great Mother’s Day. I certainly did, all of our children were in service with us Sunday. Made the day special. Had a good turn out and dinner was very good. Mother’s Day winners were Lori Ragland, Pam Cannada and Kim Campbell. Had help with the program, Steve and Jackson did a great job helping me. Several first-time visitors and had several regular out sick. Wish them a speedy recovery.