DOGWOOD ACRES, 09/22/08, ELANE CRUM
Sunday, September 28, 2008
DOGWOOD ACRES WEEKLY, 09/22/08
DOGWOOD ACRES WEEKLY, 09/15/08
DOGWOOD ACRES, 09/15/08, ELANE CRUM
Hello friends. Hurricane Ike has passed on through, leaving us almost six inches of rain and a yard full of limbs. Only a few trees were blown over at our house and they were dead ones that Rick had flagged for firewood. Over at Justin and Kasie’s a big green limb came down barely missing their pickup.
We were just one of many throughout the county that had no electricity for at least twelve hours. That was not really such a terrible hardship, although Pastor Neal gave us a rough time for missing church. I told him we couldn’t take showers and he asked if that would have been our weekly shower.
Brother-in-law Bill Biggs missed the Chiefs game and could have watched it on my 4” battery powered TV, had I only known.
Rick and I drove down to Bull Creek but the Gravely Hollow Branch was flooded before we got to Meadows. We drove out to Ronnie Bilyeu’s bluff and looked straight down at the rushing waters of Bull Creek where it runs past Saddlebrooke and the Chapman Place. It was really wide, swift and muddy.
Our next leg of the journey was down Lone Star Road to Swan Creek. Jay Gideon and Quentin were out in their yard picking up limbs and we visited with them for just a minute. As we drove along the bluff road, Swan was lapping at the edge, and then all of a sudden the road was covered with water.
David Rittershouse was just ahead of us and turned around trying to get to the Taney Co. Historical Society’s monthly meeting.
Since we couldn’t cross Swan, we turned around and went to Forsyth to look at the lakes, both running high and muddy. Rick couldn’t help but wonder if the high water might push the Wall Eye back up by the dam.
I took a lot of pictures of the water; had hoped to see a black bear somewhere along the way, but they must have been hiding. The squirrels were all in hiding too; I wondered if the high winds had scared them deep into their nests.
We talked to Roscoe and Wanetta Keithley late Sunday afternoon. Uncle Ros said that Taneycomo was running full and muddy below their bluff top home. He said he could usually tell whether the mud is washing in from Bull Creek or Turkey Creek but they both seem to be running full speed this time.
The Keithley’s had a little hunting news from Jacob Rock, who had killed a 250# hog in Texas and also came face to face with a Cottonmouth.
Georgine and Darrell Cummings have been traveling around the country again. She said their first stop was in Boise City, OK, to visit with Bubby Wade. From there they went to Springfield, CO, to visit Ann Cummings Wade and her sister-in-law, Margaret Wade. Then, to Ordway, OK, where they spent three nights with old time friends, David and Dave Monett.
Rick Crum and Jeff Dalton have been buzzing the woods on their 4-wheelers. They found a patch of Coral Mushrooms and picked a big mess to split between them. I don’t really like cleaning mushrooms, but soaked them in salt water to kill the itty-bitty bugs and picked out the leaves before battering and frying them. They fried up kind of like deer steak and left enough good stuff in the skillet for flour gravy.
Makaylee Tilley’s freshman year of high school is off to a busy start as she is playing third base on Forsyth’s Varsity Softball Team.
Neal, LeaAnn and the girls have been making jelly from the wild plums and possum grapes that grow near their house. They also gave me a jar of apple syrup and have promised me a jar of yummy apple molasses.
Christie made blackberry and peach jellies on Saturday and gave me a jar of each of those too. Jelly calls for biscuits, so I may be in big trouble by the time we empty all of these jelly jars.
Christie, Rhonda Phipps and I used a lunch hour last week to attend Silver Dollar City’s new Culinary School. That is a fancy name for a cooking class, but it was very enjoyable. Debbie Uhrig is the cooking instructor and a distant cousin of ours, Rick Bilyeu, was the merchandising director. There is more than one Rick Bilyeu in our family, but we had never met this one who is the son of Morris Bilyeu from Ozark.
I took a day off to stay at home with Rick and we took to the woods on his 4-wheeler. Four hours and thirty-two deer stories later, I managed to lift my body back onto the ground and waddle to the house. I thought I knew these hills pretty well, but had he left me on the High Hill, I would only hope to have found my way home before dark.
He took me to the High Hill where Grandpa Clarence and Daddy hunted year after year and killed more deer and turkey than one could count.
After our Grandpa passed away, Daddy found it hard to hunt there, but had
another tall White Oak that he liked to hunt from. Rick took me there too and I finally saw this legendary tree where Daddy had killed at least twenty-two deer. Our son, Neal, at the age of ten, killed his first deer from that treetop. Had I ever had any idea just how far they walked and how high that tree was, I don’t know if I would have had a moment’s peace.
Before taking the final turn toward home, we rode to the spring where my folks hauled our water from for several years. We had two or three milk cans in the back of the car and would fill them with that fresh spring water. While the cans were filling, us kids would catch crawdads in the spring branch. I enjoyed going back there and took another drink of that cold water. Bye for now.
STILLHOUSE SPRING
Hello friends. Hurricane Ike has passed on through, leaving us almost six inches of rain and a yard full of limbs. Only a few trees were blown over at our house and they were dead ones that Rick had flagged for firewood. Over at Justin and Kasie’s a big green limb came down barely missing their pickup.
We were just one of many throughout the county that had no electricity for at least twelve hours. That was not really such a terrible hardship, although Pastor Neal gave us a rough time for missing church. I told him we couldn’t take showers and he asked if that would have been our weekly shower.
Brother-in-law Bill Biggs missed the Chiefs game and could have watched it on my 4” battery powered TV, had I only known.
Rick and I drove down to Bull Creek but the Gravely Hollow Branch was flooded before we got to Meadows. We drove out to Ronnie Bilyeu’s bluff and looked straight down at the rushing waters of Bull Creek where it runs past Saddlebrooke and the Chapman Place. It was really wide, swift and muddy.
Our next leg of the journey was down Lone Star Road to Swan Creek. Jay Gideon and Quentin were out in their yard picking up limbs and we visited with them for just a minute. As we drove along the bluff road, Swan was lapping at the edge, and then all of a sudden the road was covered with water.
David Rittershouse was just ahead of us and turned around trying to get to the Taney Co. Historical Society’s monthly meeting.Since we couldn’t cross Swan, we turned around and went to Forsyth to look at the lakes, both running high and muddy. Rick couldn’t help but wonder if the high water might push the Wall Eye back up by the dam.
I took a lot of pictures of the water; had hoped to see a black bear somewhere along the way, but they must have been hiding. The squirrels were all in hiding too; I wondered if the high winds had scared them deep into their nests.
We talked to Roscoe and Wanetta Keithley late Sunday afternoon. Uncle Ros said that Taneycomo was running full and muddy below their bluff top home. He said he could usually tell whether the mud is washing in from Bull Creek or Turkey Creek but they both seem to be running full speed this time.
The Keithley’s had a little hunting news from Jacob Rock, who had killed a 250# hog in Texas and also came face to face with a Cottonmouth.
Georgine and Darrell Cummings have been traveling around the country again. She said their first stop was in Boise City, OK, to visit with Bubby Wade. From there they went to Springfield, CO, to visit Ann Cummings Wade and her sister-in-law, Margaret Wade. Then, to Ordway, OK, where they spent three nights with old time friends, David and Dave Monett.
Rick Crum and Jeff Dalton have been buzzing the woods on their 4-wheelers. They found a patch of Coral Mushrooms and picked a big mess to split between them. I don’t really like cleaning mushrooms, but soaked them in salt water to kill the itty-bitty bugs and picked out the leaves before battering and frying them. They fried up kind of like deer steak and left enough good stuff in the skillet for flour gravy.
Makaylee Tilley’s freshman year of high school is off to a busy start as she is playing third base on Forsyth’s Varsity Softball Team.
Neal, LeaAnn and the girls have been making jelly from the wild plums and possum grapes that grow near their house. They also gave me a jar of apple syrup and have promised me a jar of yummy apple molasses.
Christie made blackberry and peach jellies on Saturday and gave me a jar of each of those too. Jelly calls for biscuits, so I may be in big trouble by the time we empty all of these jelly jars.
Christie, Rhonda Phipps and I used a lunch hour last week to attend Silver Dollar City’s new Culinary School. That is a fancy name for a cooking class, but it was very enjoyable. Debbie Uhrig is the cooking instructor and a distant cousin of ours, Rick Bilyeu, was the merchandising director. There is more than one Rick Bilyeu in our family, but we had never met this one who is the son of Morris Bilyeu from Ozark.
I took a day off to stay at home with Rick and we took to the woods on his 4-wheeler. Four hours and thirty-two deer stories later, I managed to lift my body back onto the ground and waddle to the house. I thought I knew these hills pretty well, but had he left me on the High Hill, I would only hope to have found my way home before dark.
He took me to the High Hill where Grandpa Clarence and Daddy hunted year after year and killed more deer and turkey than one could count.
After our Grandpa passed away, Daddy found it hard to hunt there, but hadanother tall White Oak that he liked to hunt from. Rick took me there too and I finally saw this legendary tree where Daddy had killed at least twenty-two deer. Our son, Neal, at the age of ten, killed his first deer from that treetop. Had I ever had any idea just how far they walked and how high that tree was, I don’t know if I would have had a moment’s peace.
Before taking the final turn toward home, we rode to the spring where my folks hauled our water from for several years. We had two or three milk cans in the back of the car and would fill them with that fresh spring water. While the cans were filling, us kids would catch crawdads in the spring branch. I enjoyed going back there and took another drink of that cold water. Bye for now.
STILLHOUSE SPRING
September 14 Flood
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5 1/4 inches of rain fell at our house; Mike & Joyce Stenger measured 6" at their house. It was a significant rain event with trees downed and power outages over much of Taney County.
The following email and picture above came from cousin Ronnie Bilyeu, who lives about 5 miles from us above the banks of Bull Creek. He only has to walk a few yards from his front door to view the rolling muddy Bull.
email copy:
"This is the biggest Bull Creek has been in, I would guess, 15 years. The Creek got to within 20 to 30 feet of where the old Chapman House was located. You can see Gary and Bonnie's Barn in the background.
I can remember Uncle James Bilyeu telling about staying at the Chapman House when he was a young man. He said that he stepped off the porch and stepped into the creek. In 1993 the Creek got at least 100 to 150 feet beyond the Chapman House. While this flood wasn't that spectacular, it was still a major flood.
DOGWOOD ACRES, 09/08/08
DOGWOOD ACRES, 09/08/08
Hello friends. Labor Day really came fast this year, didn't it? In fact, so fast that the early publishing deadline caught me and there was no Dogwood Acres last week.
Rick and I went to Silver Dollar City on Labor Day for the Southern Gospel Picnic Festival. We didn't make a full day of it as we wanted to have enough energy to stay that night to see Jeff and Sherry Easter at Echo Hollow and what a blessing their concert was! Sherry had just had her first chemo treatment and was thrilled to be in concert with her family. Their faith and strength are surely an inspiration. We were told there was a record crowd in the amphitheater that night.
Thursday night Christie and I went to Springfield to see our cousins in concert at South Haven Baptist Church. The Waymakers were celebrating 50 years of gospel singing and their kids, Big Smith, also sang, adding their youthful energy to the concert. It really was a very special evening and another time that Bilyeu cousins enjoyed some time together. I also got to visit with Garland and Marilyn France, some of our Taney County folks who attended.
Betty Lou (Keithley) Sackett asked me to announce the Keithley Reunion to be held on September 27. It will be in the air-conditioned Rockaway Beach Community Center and starts at 2:00 p.m. No meal will be served but feel free to bring snacks or finger foods.
Miss Jayne Meadows has been visiting in these parts and brought me a sign to put at our corner announcing the Meadows School Reunion. This Bi-annual event will be on Saturday, September 27. The day that Jayne brought the sign she had been in Branson to attend the funeral of Wade Meadows. Wade was at the last reunion two years ago and will surely be missed this year.
Rick Crum has been scouting for buck rubs and has seen one big enough to get his buck fever running. Bow season opens next week, so he will be on the lookout for that big one.
Debbie Lathrope called to let us know she has shingles and they are sure not much fun. She is just hoping to be well enough to attend the Lone Star Homecoming in October.
A Lone Star alumni has been called to his eternal rest. Rick's Uncle George (Bodie) Stolpe passed away recently at his home out West. We had not seen him for many years, but his daughter Evelyn and her family usually attend the Lone Star Homecoming.
Christie Biggs, Ashton and Erin Crum and I traveled to El Dorado, Kansas, Saturday to attend the wedding of our cousin, Brady Whitson. We made a turn-around trip, leaving at 7:30 a.m. and got home just before midnight. Mother's brother, Walter Davis and his wife, Nadine, were there, also Nadine's sister, Agnes. When we saw Uncle Walt last year he was recovering from an illness and moving pretty slow. He has had a good year and was quite spry, climbing up and down stairs as though they were nothing. It was good to see him and his family again. Bye for now.
Hello friends. Labor Day really came fast this year, didn't it? In fact, so fast that the early publishing deadline caught me and there was no Dogwood Acres last week.
Rick and I went to Silver Dollar City on Labor Day for the Southern Gospel Picnic Festival. We didn't make a full day of it as we wanted to have enough energy to stay that night to see Jeff and Sherry Easter at Echo Hollow and what a blessing their concert was! Sherry had just had her first chemo treatment and was thrilled to be in concert with her family. Their faith and strength are surely an inspiration. We were told there was a record crowd in the amphitheater that night.
Thursday night Christie and I went to Springfield to see our cousins in concert at South Haven Baptist Church. The Waymakers were celebrating 50 years of gospel singing and their kids, Big Smith, also sang, adding their youthful energy to the concert. It really was a very special evening and another time that Bilyeu cousins enjoyed some time together. I also got to visit with Garland and Marilyn France, some of our Taney County folks who attended.
Betty Lou (Keithley) Sackett asked me to announce the Keithley Reunion to be held on September 27. It will be in the air-conditioned Rockaway Beach Community Center and starts at 2:00 p.m. No meal will be served but feel free to bring snacks or finger foods.
Miss Jayne Meadows has been visiting in these parts and brought me a sign to put at our corner announcing the Meadows School Reunion. This Bi-annual event will be on Saturday, September 27. The day that Jayne brought the sign she had been in Branson to attend the funeral of Wade Meadows. Wade was at the last reunion two years ago and will surely be missed this year.
Rick Crum has been scouting for buck rubs and has seen one big enough to get his buck fever running. Bow season opens next week, so he will be on the lookout for that big one.
Debbie Lathrope called to let us know she has shingles and they are sure not much fun. She is just hoping to be well enough to attend the Lone Star Homecoming in October.
A Lone Star alumni has been called to his eternal rest. Rick's Uncle George (Bodie) Stolpe passed away recently at his home out West. We had not seen him for many years, but his daughter Evelyn and her family usually attend the Lone Star Homecoming.
Christie Biggs, Ashton and Erin Crum and I traveled to El Dorado, Kansas, Saturday to attend the wedding of our cousin, Brady Whitson. We made a turn-around trip, leaving at 7:30 a.m. and got home just before midnight. Mother's brother, Walter Davis and his wife, Nadine, were there, also Nadine's sister, Agnes. When we saw Uncle Walt last year he was recovering from an illness and moving pretty slow. He has had a good year and was quite spry, climbing up and down stairs as though they were nothing. It was good to see him and his family again. Bye for now.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Meadows School Reunion,9/27/08
Here are some pictures that I took at the Centennial Reunion in 2006Jayne Meadows with Mr. & Mrs. Wade Meadows.
Miss Eva Meadows, a former teacher at the school, accompanied by her two nieces Bonnie Voss, Martha Quesenberry, & Bonnie's husband, Jim Voss
Clifford Bilyeu & Hal Meadows
Saturday, September 13, 2008
REUNIONS & HOMECOMINGS
77th Annual Bilyeu Reunion
Saturday, September 20, 2008 Spokane High School Time: 11:30 Lunch: 12:00 (Bring a covered dish) Entertainment: 1:00 p.m. Games..Door Prizes..Visiting..Fun..Singing For more info: Glenette Brown - 417-443-2127 or 337-3039
Keithley Reunion
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Rockaway Beach Community Center
Time: 2:00 p.m.
No meal will be served, bring snacks or finger foods
Meadows School on Bull Creek
Bi-Annual Celebration Saturday, September 27, 2008
Bring-a-Dish Lunch at Noon
Everyone Welcome
For more info: Jayne Meadows - 417-881-9151
Lone Star Homecoming
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Morning Church Service: 10:30 a.m.
Charlie Lyon (son-in-law of Skip & Edna (Rossner) Stegall) will be special speaker
Lunch at noon (Bring a covered dish)
Afternoon will include a time of singing and sharing memories
For more info: Glenn Kenyon - 417-796-2442
Monday, September 8, 2008
YELLOW BRICK ROAD #2
Another trip down the yellow brick road to Kansas...actually it was a red brick road in Ft. Scott and we were really fascinated with it. We just never allow ourselves enough time to stop at the interesting little towns on our way to where we are going! Would like to have showed the girls Ft. Scott's Historical Sites and walked in the old town area. Iola, KS, is another town with a totally fascinating downtown that we drove straight through one more time.
So, just where did we go and who went?? My cousin Ellen's daughter, Brady Whitson, got married in El Dorado, KS, on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Ashton, Erin and I went with Christie and we made a very full day. Mapquest put driving time at 5 hrs, 7 min. and we actually made the trip in 6 hours, so made quick work of our pitstops along the way. This is my cousin Ellen, with her 3 children and a brand new son-in-law!
By getting to the church a couple of hours early, we were able to spend some extra time visiting with Uncle Walt, Aunt Nadine, Becky, Ellen and Roger. The wedding was beautiful and I wish Brady and Nick all the happiness in the world. This is a picture of our Uncle Walt,Aunt Nadine, their 4 children, inlaws, grandchildren, & great-grandchildren. They have a family to be proud of!
So, just where did we go and who went?? My cousin Ellen's daughter, Brady Whitson, got married in El Dorado, KS, on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Ashton, Erin and I went with Christie and we made a very full day. Mapquest put driving time at 5 hrs, 7 min. and we actually made the trip in 6 hours, so made quick work of our pitstops along the way. This is my cousin Ellen, with her 3 children and a brand new son-in-law!
By getting to the church a couple of hours early, we were able to spend some extra time visiting with Uncle Walt, Aunt Nadine, Becky, Ellen and Roger. The wedding was beautiful and I wish Brady and Nick all the happiness in the world. This is a picture of our Uncle Walt,Aunt Nadine, their 4 children, inlaws, grandchildren, & great-grandchildren. They have a family to be proud of!
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