Canoe
Giving compliments where they’re due, and having questions on a trip for an academic team highlighted the regular session of the Breathitt County Board of Education last Monday night (November 20th). With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, the board moved this meeting up from their original date of Tuesday evening of this week, and the Breathitt County High School Library was the location.
Monday, October 2nd, 2006As I was laying in bed this morning I could feel that it was cold outside because my face felt cold. I covered up my head as best I could and leave a breathing space for my nose I began to think of how I desired the cold weather while it was so hot this summer and I thought, “What was I thinking of?” I can only come to the conclusion that man is not completely satisfied no matter what condition he finds himself in he always thinks the grass is greener on the other side. I am thankful for the four seasons we have here on earth. In spring we have the pleasure of seeing things come to life after a good winters sleep. In the summer we have the pleasure of an abundance of warm sunshine, grass mowing and reaping the harvest of nice garden foods. In the fall we get the cooler weather and God’s Great Coloring Book.
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Another week has come and gone! Fall is just around the corner. Most of the little humming birds are gone with all the flowers gone. I was making up a gallon sometimes every day and sometimes every other day. Now I made 1/2 gallon several days ago and I still have some of it. They really go for sugar water. In a way, I hated to see them go but I sure don’t miss all that work. I only have two feeders up now. I miss the chattering of their playing and fussing among themselves. It makes me know that it won’t be long until we see God’s Great Coloring Book again. With the days getting a little cooler and the cool nights, fall is my favorite season. I remember as a child how I loved going to my Aunt Hazel’s house skipping through the leaves feeling fee as a bird and feeling like my feet was hardly touching the ground. We live about one mile and two tenths below Aunt Hazel’s house. There was a little pathway around Bud Bowling’s bottoms and it would just be full of fallen leaves. Sometimes I have dreams of walking all the little pathways all the way to meet the bus and waiting on the bus to come. They are all gone now and roads have been made so that we can drive our automobiles into our yards. I still have so many fond memories of them. I remember when Martin and I were first married that we came in late at night to visit my parents and I fell and broke my hand. The little pathway was icy and slippery. I pulled off my wedding ring because my fingers were swelling. I also jammed one of my fingers. We went to Dr. Sewell Senior’s the next day and he put it in a cast. He examined my hand and told me before he x-rayed it that it was broken and where it was broken. Remembering that makes me think of little Sarah Marie Spicer, Larry and Mindy Spicer’s little two-year-old daughter. She fractured her little arm and she is the cutest little thing with her little arm in a sling. Her grandmother Sandy Spicer said she would hold it up for everyone to kiss her boo-boo the first few days she had it on. We have some of the cutest little children at the Beech Grove church. Today, (Sunday, September the 10th) was Homecoming Day there. Lonnie Arrowood preached the Homecoming sermon. John McIntosh and his wife Angie did the special singing. That ended the fall revival. The first night Larry Wilson preached and John and his group sang. The second night of the revival Alan Turner preached and Auburn and Carol Haddix did the special singing. The last night of the revival Armon Nichols and a couple from his church came. He preached and one of the men who came with him helped him sing. Each night was good and we had two to pray. Canoe and Beech Grove are blessed with two good churches.




