Martha Snow and Curleen Preston visited Phillip and Ina Vaughn Thursday. I want to say hello to Phillip and I am glad he is able to be home after a stay in the hospital and NHC.
Get-well wishes are sent to Billy Miller. He and his family are missed at New Home Baptist Church.
Visitors of Ruth Sutton were Dannie and Billy Sutton, Sue McCoig, Ali Patton and Christine Arnold.
Hunter Stanfield preached at Sink Creek Baptist Church Sunday for their Homecoming.
Mary Jane and Billy Hooper and Sue Cook were the guests of Johnnie Ruth Hunt for lunch on Sunday after church.
Visitors of Martha Snow on Saturday were Dean Turner and Judie and Jeff Thomas.
Get-well wishes are sent to Bobby Sue Fish. She has been a patient in DeKalb Community Hospital.
Rebecca Ervin went with friends Saturday to Scottsville, Ky. to the Mennonite farm and did some shopping. It is a wonderful place with all their vegetables and things.
Sue Cook and Johnnie Ruth Hunt went to the Pow Wow in Mt. Juliet Saturday.
Thanks to Whorton Springs Baptist Church for the good lunch they brought me Saturday. I appreciate it. They do this once a month.
Irene Kocsis of Florida has been visiting her sister-in-law Barbara Self. While here she and Barbara visited Bill and Willie Cleek of Nashville on Sunday, and then on Monday they and Birdie Kent visited Robbie Barrett of Nashville. They also visited Ella Cripps on Old Mill Hill Road.
Christine Arnold were supper guest of Kenneth and Lucy Young Saturday evening.
Joyce Wright and Madeline Weems spent a night recently with Lou Autry Malone. Get-well wishes are extended to Lou Autry, she has shingles.
Visiting Sue Arnold on Saturday were Dawn, Anna, Barbara and Allie Lawson on Sunday. Tim and Ronda Young were lunch guest after church and spent the afternoon.
My central air conditioning system recently went out, but thankfully the weather was cool enough that my house stayed comfortable.  The repairman said that the unit was frozen up but he could find nothing else wrong with it. I kept it turned off for a day and everything now works perfectly.
It amazes me how dependent we are on our modern conveniences. We never had air conditioning until in the 1960s after our new house was built.  Before then, we simply kept the windows open.
Back in those days, my husband J.D. would sleep on the front porch during the real hot nights of summer. Of course, the New Home road was a busy one, but he felt comfortable sleeping on the front porch and never gave a second thought about animals or unwanted people interrupting his sleep.  Imagine someone doing that nowadays.
Another thing also comes to my mind. Back then, we never locked our doors.  Whether we were at home or away, it didn’t matter. J.D. always said that the house might catch on fire and we would have trouble getting out. He also left the keys in our truck at all times; whether in the driveway or if it was parked in town.
I remember one winter night when our neighbor Aubrey George could not get his car started in order to drive into Smithville to work at the Shirt Factory. He knocked on the door and asked if J.D. would help him.  J.D. said for Aubrey to just take our truck since the keys were in the ignition.
Aubrey did just that and brought the truck back when he got off from work. Yes, the times have really changed.