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Labor Day Is Almost Here
Posted Monday, August 30, at 12:36 PM
It is almost time for Labor Day. I am getting pretty excited. People are working on floats all over the place. It should be a great parade this year. It will help if the temperature isn't positively steamy. I am visualizing a cloudy, but dry day with temps in the 80's. Let's all keep that image in our minds and see if we can make it happen. "Cloudy but dry. Temperature in the 80's" Keep thinking about it.
I woke up Saturday morning to see two men hauling the bricks out of my front yard. Yes indeed! Those bricks that have been there since I got my new steps are no longer in sight. Paula and I were moving them a little at a time and Jackie Graham happened to drive by one day. He accurately gauged that it would take us approximately 2 years at the rate we were going to clear the front yard. He called my nephew, Travis Vineyard in Houston and had Travis call me and tell me Jackie and his son would move the bricks for me. They were here at 8:00 on Saturday and cleaned the whole thing up. How's that for a nice couple of guys. Thank you, Jackie. A bunch!
Lane Wozniak was also in her good Samaritan robe this past week. She was going to take Carol Stone's mailbox down and paint it. That plan was thwarted, however when a wasp took exception to her doings and stung her in the hand. The wasp waved his victory flag while Lane allowed us to try our kitchen medicine on her and kept her hand iced until the swelling went down.
Just a word of warning to you Facebook users. Stop and think before you open links sent to you by familiar people on Facebook. Just like in email, someone has found a way to send links through legitimate looking "friends" that can have undesirable effects. A while back a virus was spread in this way and I have recently received a few suggested links that just did not look like something the alleged sender would send me. Sure enough when I checked it was a case of someone hijacking the Facebook account. So be alert and check with the sender if you aren't pretty sure about the link.
If you are interested in purchasing memorial bricks for the downtown park or pavers for the Veterans Memorial, there will be a table set up in the Community Center Sunday and Monday.
Pauline Graves Shields has made another trip to the AMMC Hospital in Paragould, but she is home again and doing well. She's getting to be such a regular visitor to AMMC everyone knows her. She is, of course unforgettable.
Finally, we had a little rain yesterday and may get some more today. It was wonderful. It left everything so clean and it smelled sooo good. We could use a little bit more, but I am saying "thank you, thank you, thank you," for what we got and hoping we don't have a downpour on Labor Day. At least not one that lasts too long.
Who is coming to visit you over Labor Day? Be sure to let me know. Write me at 514 W. 3rd St., Rector or call me. My phone number is 595-3173. Email address: porchswing@newwavecomm.net.
See you at the Picnic!
Bless our soldiers.
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Christa is proud to call herself a Rector native having been born here. After living elsewhere, she just couldn't stay away! She has now lived in Rector for over 14 years. During this time, Christa has been very active in the community and is the one to go to for current happenings in the area.
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