This cold weather is starting to get old.  We want to plant flowers and tomatoes, but continuous freezing temperatures doesn’t make one feel good about planting just yet.  We enjoyed a visit from a longtime friend and fellow teacher, Iva Dell Randolph, of Smithville.  We talked a lot about gardening.  Iva was a dear friend and helper to my mother, Elizabeth Keyt.  She would go by mother’s home to pick her up every Sunday for church.  We appreciate how caring and giving Iva Dell has always been.  Iva Dell and I taught many year together at Smithville Elementary.  The late James Webb was the Supervisor of Instruction when I was hired in 1965 to become the first librarian at Smithville Elementary.  Those first years at SES were pretty hard.  The library was located in the back of the cafeteria!  Later funding was available to build the pod where the library is still today.  A group of the following people:  Billy Rhody, Superintendent of Schools, Louise Frazier, librarian, and James Webb, made a journey to the men’s prison in Nashville to get the furniture ordered and built for the new library.  The new library was really something wonderful to see back then.  Ernest Ray was our principal, and has continued to be one of our dearest friends through the years.  There are days when we think back on that adventure and thank God for every opportunity to work with the adults and children that was put in our path.

Our community send sincere sympathy to the family of Mr. Truitt Robinson.  He was known to us as a fine man.  We pray for his dear loved ones left here.  Those precious memories will get you through until you meet him again. 

Please keep Tom and Georgie Cripps in your prayers.  There recent visitors were the following:  Jerald and Lisa Cripps, Marguerite Jones, Iva Dell Randolph, and Margie Smith.

Little Mr. Owen Wyatt Cripps, son of Matt and Melody Cripps of Murfreesboro recently celebrated his fifth birthday with many family and friends in Murfreesboro. 

We hope everyone has a church to attend, but if you do not, you are always welcome to visit us at the Dry Creek Baptist Church.