The 80-degree weather with sunshine has reached the valley with an extended warm forecast for the week.
Sunday, May 12, was Mother’s Day. It is common to spend this day with your mother. Families which are bound together by love observe this tradition.
It has been said that mothers need certain characteristics to be a good mother. We list some of these that we believe are necessary.
Love, patience, understanding, strength, fortitude, caring, sympathy and respect are a few. There are many more.
If we have the honor of being a mother, then we realize that children are different.
Having Mother’s Day dinner at the Helen Burt home were Larry Parsley and family of Smyrna, Debbie O’Conner of Goodletsville, and Kenneth and Vicki Corley of Alexandria. They enjoyed good food and family fellowship.
Lisa Cripps of Dismal Road visited Matthew and Melody Cripps and baby Owen at their home in Murfreesboro Sunday afternoon.
We say hello to a nice lady on Dismal Road, Georgia Cripps, who has been having tests run in a Nashville hospital, we think Vanderbilt. We wish for the best for this kind farm housewife. Remember her in your prayers and may God’s love and mercy sustain the Cripps family.
Mother’s Day dinner guests at the home of Louise Frazier were Lisa Cripps of Liberty, Monica Reynolds and Levi of Alexandria, Michele Kent, Brandon Kent, Elizabeth and Oliva Miller of Lascasses, Jim and Judy Kimbrell of Old Mill Hill Road, Ricky and Kathy Hendrix and Jordan and Nicole Cripps and Christian of Dry Creek Valley.
Mr. Danny Agee is recovering from back surgery at a Nashville hospital. He came home Tuesday and is recovering nicely. We say hello to Danny and send our best wishes to him for a full recovery.
The weather service reported 13 tornadoes that touched down in north Texas, killing six and leaving dozens injured and families without anything but the clothes that they were wearing.
Our sick list this week includes some new people who are sick: Inez Farler, Vena Fuston, Linda Fuston, Louise Frazier, Jimmy Midgett, Ernest Ray, Audrey Owens, Glen Faircloth, Carroll Thomas, James Keyt, Joe and Carolyn Dickey, Faye and Harold Elrod, Peggy Purcell, Shannon Cantrell, Fred VanHook, Edsel Fraizer, Gene and Dean Cook, Sarah Walker, Jim Cripps, baby Owen Cripps, Bobby and Mary Joines, Mary Snow, Bro. W.L. Baker, Joe Ayers and Brigham Ayers. Make a call, send a card, do a kind deed, pray, etc., to let these people know you care. Your name could be on the list, you never know and thanks in advance for being concerned and caring for others.
Dry Creek Valley is so beautiful today. The sun is shining, birds are singing and everything is calm and peaceful. We must take time to be thankful for God’s creation and his many blessings given to us each and every day.
Looking ahead at Dry Creek Baptist Church: June 6-8 Vacation Bible School. Workers are needed and June 30 the church will be having Homecoming with Sunday school at 10 a.m., worship service at 10:45 with former pastor, Bro. Carl Smith of McMinnville preaching and the homecoming dinner will begin at noon.