Todd and Barbara F. Nuckles, Sam, Chris and William, Florence, Ala., spent the weekend at their farm-home. The boys were on Spring Break from school and enjoyed bike riding.
It is poke sallet time in the valley. Most families enjoy at least one or two dishes of this early plant. Most people like this dish cooked with bacon drippings. Others like it with eggs either boiled or in with the greens. We prefer the eggs boiled apart from the poke sallet.
Old folk used to say it was like medicine. Eat several bowls of this delicious green dish and you would feel much better. If this is true, maybe we need to get out on the creek bank and pick some of the young plants.
We put our o.k. on this once a year, green dish. It grows well in the valley, on the hills, and on the creek banks and doesn’t cost you a penny.
Hayden Lane Lawson, Short Mountain Hwy., spent Friday night with his grandmother, Estelle Ferrell, at her home on Evins Mill Rd.
Jerald and Lisa Cripps, Dismal Rd., Liberty, and several other members of Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church were at the State Prison in Nashville for their prison ministry. The group reported a day that was well spent.
Glad to give a good report on Bro. Donald Owens. Dr. Neely, Lebanon, reports that everything looks good in the x-rays of his ankle. He will have the cast off and stitches removed on May 6.
Mrs. Audrey Owens is still homebound with pneumonia, but her condition is much improved. She is missed at Dry Creek Baptist. Love and best wishes, to the Owens’ Family.
Special get-well wishes to to Mr. Fred Brockett of Lebanon, who underwent surgery, Wednesday. Bro. Fred is a frequent visitor at Dry Creek Baptist. He sings solos in the choir. Remember the Brockett Family in your prayers.
Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Louise Frazier were Dr. Barbara Frazier-Nuckles, Todd, Sam, Chris and William, Florence, Ala., Mrs. David Reynolds, Alexandria, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Kimbrell, and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hendrix.
Mr. Tim France and daughters, Smithville, were the dinner guests of Ms. Jeanette France, Saturday.
Mrs. Debbie O’Conner, Goodletsville and Mrs. Vicki Corley, Alexandria, visited their mother, Mrs. Helen Burt, Sunday.
Mrs. Lisa Cripps of Dismal visited her mother, Mrs. Louise Frazier, Tuesday.
Mr. James Hale has not been feeling well this week. Our prayers and best wishes, for better health, go to him.
Did you ever go on a wild goose hunt? (This is what old people used to call it.) If you wanted something really bad and didn’t know where to find it, you would just go looking, not really knowing where you were going.
Saturday was a beautiful warm sunny day. Everyone was looking for pansies to put in flower pots. They could not be found. Someone, a friend, had said that you could find them at a nursery in Sycamore.
Lisa Cripps and yours truly set out to try to find pansies. Traveling for what seemed miles and miles past Sycamore Baptist Church, Cannon County, on  paved roads, we finally arrived at a dirt road with a sign on the left, saying “Birdsong Hollow” plants for sale.
A short distance on the dirt road up a deep hill there we found a small nursery. We were greeted by a young lady who wore a wide-brim straw hat, with a broad smile on her face.
She had inherited this rich-looking land from her uncle, Dr. Carl Adams of Woodbury. Sure, we knew him. He was our surgeon at Murfreesboro Hospital in 1958.
The conversation went “Do you have pansies?” She replied, “Yes, we do.” No, it wasn’t my kind of pansies. The plant with a delicate looking bloom, which reminded us of the wild violets, which grow profusely in the Dry Creek Valley.
The plant  was called Johnny-Jump-Up. We bought several of them and a variety of nice tomato plants.
We met two more nice ladies. One was our neighbor, Matilda, who lives on the Jimmy Womack farm and works at the nursery in Birdsong Hollow.
To our pleasant surprise, Matilida, came to our house after sundown with a tray of beautiful multi-colored pansies, which she had a friend bring her from Mary’s Greenhouse near McMinnville. Thanks to Matilda we now have beautiful pansies.
Dry Creek Baptist Church welcomes everyone to its worship services. Bro. Donald Owens, pastor.
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. (Matt. 18:21-22).