Here we are in the first week of October. It seems like here lately, for the past year especially, that time is flying by. Seems like last week we were welcoming the month of September.
Don’t forget, Oct. 14 there will be games, a hayride, cake walk, chili cookoff and much more during an evening of faith, fun and fellowship at Tillatoba Baptist Church from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The hayride at 6 will end the festivities.
The family of Audrey Ross would like for you to join them to celebrate her 100th birthday, on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 2-4 p.m. at the Oakland Presbyterian church. Your presence would be the perfect gift.
David, my better half, got a call from his brother, Willie Deck of Glen Allen, Missouri, telling him that he ran over a bear as he was leaving his driveway for work. He said there was blood everywhere but they couldn’t find the bear.
Diane Dukes has been sick with a respiratory infection and asthma and took three bottles of medicine and cough syrup. That should get you to feeling better. Her sister, Ellen Parker, and her niece, Vickie Lynn Parker from Greenville, came and stayed three days with Diane. They all had a good time. She said, “I hope I was good company for them.”
Diane and daughter Terri Dukes went Saturday to Monticello, Arkansas, to buy things to go in her yard to decorate for Halloween and fall: pumpkins and whatever she decides to use for decorations!
Martha Box said, “Friend, you know my best news is old news. God created my world and my place in it and I am so grateful!” Martha said she did get a reminder about life the other day. “While enjoying the fall colors, the cotton being picked, I was nearly killed! A car going at least 120 mph shook my car as it came within inches of me! All I could say was Lord, I guess You have one more thing You want me to do!”
Martha said the revival at Willow Springs Assembly of God was great and really fed her heart and soul each night. She said there was great preaching and leading from scriptures and Holy Spirit and thanked Bro. Jeremy Pooler for a wonderful revival!
Martha said she was worn out from chasing a bird through her house one day last week. “As I opened the door to pledge allegiance and say thank You Lord, a swallow flew in my den. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., I tried to catch it. Even my two great-nephews and brother tried. It either got out at 3 or it is dead somewhere. Lol! I tell you it ain’t easy being me.”
I talked to my friend Peggy Bailey Monday morning and she was all excited. Her husband, Eugene, was coming home from the hospital Tuesday. Peggy’s daughters, Pam and Jennifer, and son, Erik, had been grocery shopping for Peggy Saturday.
Happy birthday to Summer Procella on the 3rd; to Laura Moorman and Billy Wayne Anderson on the 5th; to my great-nephew, Taylor Hames, on the 7th; to Brent Anderson on the 9th; to a sweet, special lady, Audrey Ross, and Ann Ragon, my great-niece, Gracie Beardain, and my great nephew, Bo Bickerstaff, who celebrate on the 10th; to Jacque Chambers and Billy Jack Williamson, who share a birthday on the 11th; and to Sheila O’Bryant on the 12th. I pray you all have a great birthday!
Recipe for the week: Curried Fruit
1, 20-ounce can pear slices, drained
1, 20-ounce can peach slices, drained
1, 20-ounce can of pineapple chunks, drained
1/4 cup, maraschino cherries, sliced
1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons curry powder
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Pour fruit into 8x12 inch casserole dish. Melt butter, add sugar mixed with curry powder and pour over fruit. Bake for one hour. You can half this recipe.
Thought for the day: Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
