I hope all of you are surviving this hot weather and drinking plenty of water.
I would like to thank Scotty and Stephanie Chambers and Gary and Adam Chambers for rescuing David from a ditch he had fallen into while bush hogging in the pasture. They brought him home and put him to bed. After they left, I got him up and put dry clothes on him. Thank you to grandsons Junior and Waylon Dukes for going and doing some more bush hogging and putting the rest of the things up. David is fine; just sore as all get-out, as they say.
Deborah McCool said they really didn’t do anything this weekend. There was yard work Saturday afternoon and taking it easy after church Sunday. The lids, Jason, Kimberly, Caitlyn and Hannah, came over for a while.
Martha Box was perking up Monday morning as she is walking better now and will be weaned off the boot via physical therapy this next week. She said the doctor gave her a good report last week and she may be able to dance the Bop at her next checkup in 3 months.
Martha reported a great visit from her handsome “GBoy,” Josh, and Ginger and Phil Saturday. She said she has been taste-testing a lot at the ole Corner Store last couple of weeks and that it is all so good she is now having to work harder on her “priss and figure. Lol.”
Welcome back to Tillatoba, little John Dukes, and you brought your bride, Darlene. They are my new up-the-road neighbors.
Sorry my news is short this week. Maybe folks will feel like getting out and doing things this week.
Happy birthday to Hunter Pots on the 23rd; to my great-niece, Laura Lee Beardain, on the 25th; to John Adam Robinson and Ashton Langham on the 26th; to Tori Bowman and Bubba Dukes on the 27th; and to Breanna White on the 29th. May you all have a wonderful day celebrating your birthday!
Recipe for the week: Preserved Children
1/2 dozen children
One large field
Two or three small dogs
Pinch of Brook
Few pebbles
Mix the children and dogs together, put them in the field stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles. Sprinkle the field with flowers and spread over all a blue sky and bake in the sun. When brown, set aside to cool in the bathtub.
Thought for the day: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
