DOGWOOD ACRES, 05/09/10, ELANE CRUM Hello friends. My whole Mother’s Day weekend has been special, starting out with dinner with our granddaughters on Friday evening. Rick had helped Neal put in cabinets and then picked Ashton and Erin up after school. I was coming from work in Branson and met them for Mexican food in Forsyth. They spent the weekend with us and made beautiful cards for LeaAnn on Saturday. Erin and I took a drive around the neighborhood Saturday evening stopping at Bob and Rhonda Bowman’s, Pat and Fran Robertson’s and the Biggs’ family. Fran gave us a tour of their beautiful new home. It is so pretty and they have a breathtaking view of the Swan Creek Valley and beyond. My brother Jim was working in his sugar cane patch when we first went by. I planned to stop and see it on our way home, but he had gone back to the house. After we got home from dinner Friday evening Rick loaded his fishing gear up and went to the fishing hole. Before he left I asked him to bring a cardboard box up from the garage. It had sat on a shelf since we moved here in 1991 and was labeled, “Pictures, etc. from Rick’s desk”. I spent hours going through it discovering memories and dreams. Among the found items was pictures thought lost, Travel Brochures from trips we hoped to take and calendars that chronicled the days of our lives. 1988 was a big year for new babies with two litters of beagles; Julie had four and Frannie (guess who she was named after) had five. The red letter birth of the year was not a beagle, but my nephew “Colby” born on Dec. 22. 1989 and 1990 did not have any red letter days, but lots of school activities and birthdays. Mother’s Day was special as once again I was reminded how privileged and blessed I am to be a Mother and a Grandmother. I think God blessed me extra special. Sunday afternoon we went to Adams Funeral Home in Ozark to attend visitation for Thelma Walker. She passed away on Thursday at the age of 88. I think it was such a sad way for her family to spend Mother’s Day. They know she is in Heaven and hold fast to the hope of seeing her there some day. I saw Aunt Bonnie Bilyeu’s picture today on Facebook, celebrating Mother’s Day with nieces and nephews at Silver Dollar City. Karla and Dwayne with their kids and grandkids chauffeured her around the City in a wheel chair. Surely she was the prettiest 91-year old auntie there. We had a workday at Meadows Cemetery on Thursday with a fine group who replaced the fence damaged by the big Oak tree that blew down last spring. Walt and Kathy Riggan headed up our crew with the use of his antique tractor and Kubota, which came in handy to pull out some of the stubborn roots from the old tree. Others on the fencing crew were Don Bilyeu, James Hilton, Danny Frazier and Rick Crum. There was a surprise visit from Jean DeWitt Walker with her sons, Jim and Rick, who had come to decorate her folks’ graves. It was so good to see them and gave us an excuse to take a break and visit for a little while. Thursday night Rick and I went to Erin’s Spring Concert at Plainview School. She and her classmates have grown up so much this year. She has three more years at Plainview and then it is off to high school. A yard sale in our neighborhood is planned for Friday, May 28, and Saturday, May 29. There is still a lot of work to be done before we are ready. I have several boxes of things started and other things just waiting to be priced and put out. Looking back at pictures when we first moved in this house, there was so much less “stuff” and “clutter”. I am still thinking about simplifying and getting rid of that “stuff”. Bye for now.
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