Spring break is this week and the weather is awful so far, unless you like cold, rain, sleet, snow flurries, etc. I have a niece that lives in Highlandville and one that lives in Tunas, and they both reported this morning that it was snowing there. The niece in Tunas said they had almost an inch of snow on the ground. I was hoping for warm weather, warm breezes and the like. I would like to do more yard work and I thought the grandkids might help me a bit, or at least enjoy getting outside. Instead, they slept late, got up and played on the computer and ate, and then the boys and their friends went to explore a cave again. I don't really care for them crawling around in caves, but that is because I am slightly claustophobic. Courtney went with her stepsister to visit her grandmother in Little Rock for the week, so she isn't even here. The other two are sunning themselves in tropical places and visiting their uncle.
I just today started some tomato and pepper seeds in the little peat pellets that swell up when you put water on them. I have more success using them that anything else. I am later this year starting my plants than I have been in the past. I am a first class procrastinator. I need to get with it, because I want to have a big garden this year and can or freeze as much as I can. It really helps with the grocery bill and the food is better too.
There will be a table shower for Kayla and Boyd Combs’ foster children at noon on Sunday, March 20 at New Mansion Church. Kayla and Boyd do so much for these precious kids and we would like to show our love and support by helping with some needed items, such as clothes or diapers, or anything a baby might use. Kayla said it would be very helpful if the clothes were just a size bigger than what the babies are wearing right now. The baby boy wears a size 0-3 month, and the baby girl a size 6-9 month, so any size larger than those would be wonderful.
I had several calls asking what a table shower was, sorry I didn’t make it understandable. Usually the way it works is a table is set up in the foyer of the church and everyone brings their gift and sets it on the table. Then they can just pick up their gifts and take them home. There will be cookies served if anyone would like to stay and visit with Boyd and Kayla.
We attended church at Lone Star last Sunday morning and we really enjoyed it, although at the same time we missed going to our home church, New Mansion. We had to miss Corby Lux bringing the message at New Mansion, and we hated that, but we had already comitted to go to Lone Star. We don't usually skip church at our own church, but we had been planning for a long time to go to Lone Star one Sunday so we decided to go ahead and go. We got to see and worship with several friends we hadn’t seen in a while. It’s always good to get to hear David Koenig bring the message. We were sitting there before the service started and was talking to Tampa Rogers when Jon Rogers walked up behind me and decided I needed a new hairdo. Lets just say I am glad that the “messy look” is still in style!
June Rhoads is back home and feeling some better after surgery to remove one of her kidneys. The doctors found a spot of cancer in her kidney and had to remove it. The spot had been there for over a year but the doctors thought first it was just a shadow, then this year they first thought she had kidney stones, then went in to take them out and decided to biopsy it. June has had back pain for well over a year. We pray June will continue to improve.
The Spring Creek bridge between Bradleyville and Taneyville is closed for a few weeks and it is making it complicated to get from here to there. We live very close to DD highway and we almost always went down DD, turned left at the bridge and out F highway to Taneyville anyway, but for some people it will be a lot more driving, or maybe just a lot more thinking to try to take the shortest route possible.
I do wish they would have replaced the bridges before the gas went up so much, but I guess that is something they didn't know.
Congratulations to Khailey Arrington on the birth of her son, Brayden Nikolas McNamee on March 10. He weighed 7lbs and 13oz and is adorable, of course! He is having to spend a few days in the hospital because of jaundice. Khailey lives in Springfield now, but she used to live right across the road from our daughter Lynn, right in the middle of Union Flat.
My quilt is sewed together in rows one way, and needs to be ironed and then the rows sewed together, but I keep finding things I must do before I start sewing again. Another hint to myself that I really don't enjoy sewing, but I am determined to finish this quilt, it may take years though! I keep thinking if I hang in there and sew now and then, I will get to where I enjoy it.
Birthdays for the coming week include: March 17: Brandon Harris, Koleder Ross; March 18: Nardena Brown, Amber Duff, Becky Krause; March 19: Bradley Flannery, Kerri Hampton; March 20: Rebecca Campbell, Emma Hampton, Sue Swadley; March 21: Kelsey Adams, Ronnie Hunsaker; March 23: Sammi Jo Norwine.
Anniversaries for the coming week include: March 19: Brandon & Lori Burkhart, Sam & Judy Clemans
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