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Dry Creek Flashes
Canning corn chowder and making jam
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We have been having some heavy rains almost daily in the Dry Creek Valley. We are thankful for the rains which are needed for farmers to have a good harvest.
Hay is the main crop in the lower Dry Creek Valley.
There is one nice field of corn on the right as you enter the valley off of Highway 70.
Cattle is being raised on the Jared Hendrix, Roger Hendrix, Jeanette France farms and possibly more in the hollows. In the Vandagriff Hollow, Kenny Edge raises cattle.
Roscoe Frazier has cattle on his farm.
The upper part of the valley, where the Braswells and Martha Cripps family lived, now has no connection with the lower and center part of the valley.
We think some people have built nice houses and live there, but we don’t know them. Wish we did so I could include them in the column.
Elizabeth and Olivia Miller of Lascassses visited their grandparents, James and Naomi Miller in Dowelltown, Tuesday.
Elizabeth is doing volunteer work this summer at Alvin C. York.
We send special get-well wishes to Georgia Hawker, who is ill in University Medical Center in Lebanon. Our prayers, love and concerns go to this loved lady of the Dry Creek Valley.
The DeKalb-Alexandria Fair is going on this week. It is reported that our great-grandchildren, Sawyer, Levi and Brandon, were enjoying the rides at the fair and didn’t want to leave.
Our family always attended the fair. A “true story” is that my late husband, W.W. Frazier, and our family were leaving to go home. We passed by the bingo booth. Those people had played all night, “Midnight” W.W. decided to play just one time. “Bingo,” someone hollered. It was W.W.
He stuck the money in his pocket and wouldn’t spend a penny. We left for home in the Dry Creek Valley.
Jeanette France visited her neighbor, Louise Frazier, Wednesday afternoon and brought her some nice green beans, tomatoes and cucumbers from her vegetable garden. It is so nice to have a garden. Thanks, Jeanette.
Jeanette’s daughter and son-in-law,  Randy and Tawana Box of Franklin, have just returned from an enjoyable trip to Europe.
Both Randy and Tawana teach band and have been very busy with their duties in music for many, many years. We appreciate teachers who are dedicated to their teaching professions.
DeKalb County has many teachers who go beyond the extra mile every year.
We are a firm believer in our public school system and it will be up and going very soon in DeKalb.
We retired May 1983, 30 years of retirement. Many things have happened during this time. For 10 years, it was sickness, doctors, nurses and hospitals, we were used to around us.
After, we finally realized that we were left alone and life goes on.
Several trips we have enjoyed during this time, one was our trip to Cape Canaveral to see the launch of the space shuttle that John Frazier was manager of the space load.
Our family’s trip to Hawaii for 15 days, and the senior trip to New York were nice trips.
Now we try to do just what we can. Today, we made eight pints of corn chowder; yesterday we canned blackberries and made jam.
 The little church in the valley has been a “Spiritual Lighthouse” for over 120 years in the Dry Creek Valley.