Barbara Lawson visited Sue Arnold recently.
Kenneth and Peggy Cantrell spent a week with their daughter and family Mark and Hilery, three children in South Carolina.
There are graduating from DeKalb County High School from New Home Baptist Church Spencer Stanfield, Hayden Ervin, Brittney Campbell and Seth Stanley. Congratulations and best wishes go to them. The church presented them a Bible Sunday.
Lu Autry Malone and Jaylene Vanatta and Charlie and Rita Robinson attended the reception honoring Clay Farler returning from School. It was held at the Church of Christ Annex Sunday afternoon. There was a large crowd attended.
Virginia Jones and Wayne Ferrell visited Louise Jones recently.
The tornado that hit Moore, Okla,. was near Oklahoma City where Barbara Self’s son, Bobbie Self, wife and children live.  I was near but thankful he called her and said they were ok it didn’t hit them. It was terribly near.
The gospel singing on Saturday in Alexandria was enjoyed by a lot of people. I listened to it on WJLE. I am not able to go and I’m glad it is broadcasted.
Dinner guests on Sunday for lunch of Barbara Vanatta were Jeff, Rawlin and Jessie Vanatta.
Irene Kocsis of Florida is visiting her sister-in-law Barbara Self two weeks. Mary McKenzie also visited.
Get-well wishes to Martha Snow who has been a patient in DeKalb Community Hospital.
Visitors of Betty Wilson were Faye Adkins, Betty Byford, Dianna Evans, Rebecca Ervin, Angie Meadows, Brandon Rackley, JoAnn Pittman, Douglas Ervin and Tim Young.
Valerie Mears visited Mabel Pack Saturday.
Coda Hawkins preached at Mt. Herman Baptist Church Sunday. I am proud of the young people, it was youth Sunday.
With our warmer weather, I was thinking this week about when as a child I would go bare-footed. Mama and Daddy usually bought us a pair of shoes for Easter and another pair in the fall when we started back to school.  If the shoes got a hole in the bottom, we would cover it with a piece of cardboard until we got a new pair.
Other than those two pairs of shoes each year, we would go barefooted. I could hardly wait until the warm weather. I don’t remember why it was considered fun, but it was. We children would run over gravel and rocks, sometimes stumping our toes or getting a cut from glass or a sharp object.
I wonder how children would feel today if they were told that they would only get two pairs of shoes during the year. I am sure that children would find it hard to believe that we had no running water in the house.
The restroom was outdoors. We took a bath with a pan of water and a washcloth. Kerosene lamps were the source of light. And a cool spring of water was our means of refrigeration for keeping milk and butter.
As I think about those things, I thank the Lord for the blessings of today.