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On Saturday, while Garey was helping me set up for our granddaughter, Sabria’s, birthday party, I stopped and looked around at the cake, the decorations and the presents then said, “I wish I’d had me for a mother.”

I realize how arrogant that sounds, and on some level it is; but on another level, it is “the little girl who will not be silenced,” still living inside of me, still wishing someone had occasionally made her feel special, instead of being viewed as just one of a group of kids who needed to be seen but not heard.

Andrew is a disciple of Christ whose record of work is pretty much limited to what we read in a few places in the gospel records. Though not specifically mentioned, he would have been present on the day of Pentecost and preaching to the multitudes that day (Acts 2:1, 14). Andrew’s example is worthy of emulation. What can we learn from this disciple of the Lord?

Oh how I love the country!!! These are treasures! As the old saying goes “they don’t make them like they used to.” Everytime I see an old barn, I think of my grandpa. When I moved here from Newfoundland, their farm was the first one I had ever been on and it was so exciting to help them around the farm and get to see new life be born and watch my grandparents work so hard together making a living. What wonderful memories I have of them.

I don’t know about  ya’ll…but I’m SICK of rain! Have a great week!!

WORK ETHIC

By keeping control of the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington after sending an Obamacare-repeal bill to the desk of the law’s namesake last January, Republicans won the White House on a message of dismantling the disastrous health-insurance policy.

Madison County, founded in 1785, had an estimated population (as of 2015) of 87,824.  Richmond is the county seat.  Notable person from Madison County is Lonnie Napier, born in 1940.  Napier is one of the current Representatives for House District 36 in the Kentucky House of Representatives.  Indian trader John Findlay, Daniel Boone, and four others first came into the area that is now Madison County in 1769 on a hunting and exploring expedition.  

I checked the upcoming holiday or observance dates scheduled in the next few weeks and found the following dates:

•Inauguration Day, Friday, January 20

•Groundhog Day, Thursday, February 2

•Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14

•Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 20

These observances have little connection; they are simply observed between January 20 and February 20. Each observance is unique.

Old Chum never picked a fight- but, if need be he would fight a circle saw, teeth, hair, and eyeballs. 

The Elizabethtown Independent School Board recently became the first local education oversight body in Kentucky to express collective hostility toward giving parents the option of a different type of public -school experience for their children. 

It passed a resolution claiming a charter-school policy “unilaterally takes critically needed funds from local school districts and redirects them to charter schools, thereby debilitating the significantly underfunded system of funding for public education for all Kentucky schools.” 

My sister called on Wednesday.  She thinks Donald Trump is the antichrist.  “He WILL push the button,” she said, “And I don’t want to be here after he does!”  She has also decided to stop using adverbs.  It’s her stand against the multitude of qualifiers that stream from President-Elect Trump’s mouth on a near-hourly basis.  She’s a retired English teacher.  She can pull this off.