The Alba Church’s annual Harvest Supper is being held Thursday, November 12th, beginning at 4:30. The menu is roast pork and all the trimmings including homemade pie. There are still lots of bazaar items that will be for sale during the dinner. Thank you for your continued support.
Also – don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour as Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday Nov. 1st. I really like the early daylight as we get up usually between 5 and 6am, but getting dark at 5pm makes us feel like we need to go to bed before 8:00! The older we get the harder it seems to adjust. Can anybody say “CHANGE?”
My mother-in-law Beverly reports still having a pair of robins roosting in her back yard, and she says they’ve been there for quite some time. We have a group of blue jays – usually 4 or 5 at a time – flying in and out of our oak tree all the time grabbing acorns – when they’re not hogging seed from the feeder and crowding out the sparrows.
I’m sorry I missed the Canton Library’s annual Chinese Auction last weekend, but I heard from friends that attended it was real nice indeed and they had a good time – even if they didn’t come home with any treasures. I’m glad our ladies group at church (CWF) donates prizes for this event as I heard that donations appeared to be down a bit this year.
Ron helped out down at LeRoy where museum members were busy moving items from the old hotel to another location, as the Heritage Museum has acquired this historical building and will soon be installing exhibits and fabrications. Please watch the local newspapers as to its progress.
Last Wednesday was a nice sunny day so Ron and I (and Palin) took the opportunity to take a ride over the hill to Mansfield to pick a few items at the tractor store. I was thrilled to pick up a bag of bright orange tulip bulbs out of the clearance rack! As I am a world class procrastinator I’m going to brag a bit and say I actually came home, donned my garden gloves, grabbed a pail of dirt mix, my trowel, and planted those bulbs in my mother’s old iron kettle out front of the house. I covered it with mulched leaves and sprinkled some moth balls over top to hopefully deter any critters from robbing me.
We collected quite a big pile of nice coats at church which I will take to the Columbia Cross Roads Church this week for their giveaway project. What a nice idea for them to do this to give people a little hand in keeping warm this winter. I’ll also be taking all the bags of pasta our church collected during the month of October: National Pasta Month – over to the Troy Food Pantry – another worthy, much-needed organization.
I’ve been having a bout with mouth canker sores. I went to our medicine cabinet to dab on some alum – much to my dismay because it is so sour/bitter and stings like crazy – but, my parents always said it worked. There it was. A box of French’s powdered alum and written on the top in black grease pencil was the price: 39 cents! (Obviously, written probably by my mom Lucille.) Gee – it seems to be working. Thanks for the memories. I can’t think of anything I need I can go to the store and buy for 39 cents, can you?
Just when you thought there wasn’t enough time in the day to crowd in any more political commercials for the 2016 Presidential Election, now we have the upcoming Local Elections. TV commercials and those road signs have sprung up everywhere, but, fortunately the election is next Tuesday, November 3rd – so, don’t forget to get out and vote. On that note, I’d like to tell you what my 1981 Guidepost daily devotion said on October 24th written by Manuel Almada. “Whenever I think that the vote of one person doesn’t count for much, I remember Paul Antonio. When the members of the United Nations Security Council first met at Lake Success on Long Island, they cast their votes on world questions in a black metal ballot box. This box was built by Paul Antonia. Just before the first session began, the box was opened and everyone was surprised to find inside it the following note: ‘May I, who have had the privilege of constructing this ballot box, cast the first vote? May God be with every member of the United Nations Organization, and may your noble efforts bring lasting peace to us all – all over the world.’ Signed, Paul Antoni, mechanic. So it was that the first item in the ballot box of the United Nations Security Council was a vote for God and world peace.”
November derives its name from the Latin word novum meaning “nine.” November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. “Full Beaver Moon” is the name the Native Americans of the North used for the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze. Another traditional name is “Full Frost Moon”, commemorating the season of icy mornings rimed with frost. November 1, 1800, the White House in Washington, D.C. became the official residence of the U.S. presidents. The first full-time occupants were John and Abigail Adams, who moved in on this date, even though work on the building had not been completed. On November 4, 1862, Richard Gatling patented the machine gun. On November 5, 1639, the first colonial post office was established in Boston, Massachusetts.
Quote by Abigail Adams: “A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God.”
Food for thought: Trials make us think; thinking makes us wise; wisdom makes life profitable.