DOGWOOD ACRES, 05/17/09, ELANE CRUM
Hello friends. Stormy and sleepless nights have continued to become almost the norm around here. While I stay up to watch the radar, Rick sleeps soundly. I am glad he can do that, but then, that leaves me the responsibility of whether or not to wake him to go to the basement. The other option would be to go to the basement alone, but if a tree fell on the bedroom, I would feel pretty bad!
Justin and Kasie visited Rick and I one night last week. They are young and so full of energy. Kasie is busy with nursing school and getting ready for graduation in a few weeks. Justin is manager of Denny’s Harley Davidson store on the Marina at Branson Landing. With several motorcycle clubs visiting the area, they had a busy weekend.
Saturday afternoon I went to New Haven for Adrian and Glenette Brown’s 50th wedding anniversary party. There was a big crowd; some I missed because I was late, but still got to see the stars of the show. Neither Adrian nor Glenette look old enough to have been married for half a century.
I was not very old when they got married, but remember going to spend a night with them in the rock house where they lived on 176, not far from where they live now. They had a little dog that I think was named Corky and I thought it was so cute.
Brother Jim missed the party because of high water. He left home late, but if we cross Bull Creek we can be at New Haven in 15 minutes. Well, when he got to the crossing the water was higher than he had ever attempted to cross. Good sense prevailed and he turned around and came home.
Melva and CaraBelle Epps had also gone the back way and turned around at the high water crossing. They were not running quite as late as Jim, so were still able to go around the highway. Melva said they saw several big snakes crossing the gravel road, making that trip an adventure.
We have not seen many snakes yet. Rick saw one copperhead when he was weed eating and last week we saw where a blacksnake had shed its skin by our concrete wall. As the nights begin to warm up we will soon begin to see copperheads crossing the road after dark. We think the cats keep down the snake population near our house; hope so anyway!
Justin and Kasie Fisher have taken advantage of the high water by kayaking on Bull Creek. Jim took them to the Anderson Ford Sunday afternoon and picked them up about an hour later at the Goodnight Hollow Slab. He drove through the fields at cousin Ronnie’s house to watch them go through the cascades there, then on down to where Alvie Raub used to live before meeting them at the slab.
I got up Saturday morning and went to Dogwood Acres coffee, hosted by Richard and Carolyn Crouse. It was one of the occasional times when “wives were allowed” and we ladies enjoyed a tour through their lovely log home. Mike Stenger had made a big kettle of Wild Boar Sausage Gravy to go with biscuits and scrambled eggs. Although I have eaten a lot of wild game, that was my first taste of wild hog and it was very good!
We have not seen any more bears, but I think twice before going outside after dark. Last week I visited with Carol Marsh at their yard sale and she had recently seen a bear cub in their front yard. It has also been a visitor at some of the farms near their home.
While shopping in Forsyth Saturday I saw Maxine Ingenthron and her pretty little great-granddaughter, Dana. They make a good team and almost had their shopping cart full. I told her they already got all the pretty clothes, so no need for me to even look. Kelsey Thomas, another of Granny Mac’s great-granddaughters, is the Salutatorian of Plainview School’s eighth grade class.
Rick did a little fishing last week, pulling one or two all-nighters or, was it a 24-hour fish-a-thon? I cannot remember, but he likes to cast that rod just in case a fish is passing by.
Neal’s birthday was Thursday, May 14, and we had a chocolate feed for him after church Wednesday night. I have been pulling old pictures from the family archives and making a May birthday album on Facebook. Ashton got real nervous when I told her to check it out and see what pictures I have of her and Makaylee. They were all such cute little kids, I don’t know why they worry about it, but you know how teenage girls can be.
Christie's grandson, Dakota Bilyeu, also had a birthday on May 14. He is an official teenager now, Thirteen! These kids all grow up way too fast!
The men of Sandy Church did a great job with the Mother’s Day Fish Fry Sunday afternoon. There was plenty of fried fish, okra, French fries and even jalapeno peppers. The dessert table was full of luscious cakes, cookies and pies, all carried in by the men who were supposed to have baked them. Bye for now.
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