I will be having the Writers Guild meeting at my home one more time, next Saturday, May 5. I spoke with Jim Ogletree at Piggly Wiggly, who has agreed to allow us to meet at the Opry House once a month, or how ever often the group votes to meet, monthly, alternate months or quarterly. If any readers are interested in attending the meeting, email, text or call me for directions to my house.
Anne Duett tried to call me several times last week. When I finally got a chance to call her back, she was very upset with me, because she had left three voice mails on my home phone. The problem was, that I had checked my voice mails several times through that week and had no messages.
If anyone else has had this problem, I apologize. I have no idea what happened with my voice mails. I checked again after I hung up from talking with her, and it still said, “No new messages.” I even listened all the way through all of my old, saved messages and didn’t find it. I checked my phone base and turned the voice mail off and then back on.
Hopefully, you will be able to leave a voice mail on it now. To be certain, please leave voice mails on the same number you can text with news, which is at the end of this article.
Anne told me that she had called to let me know that the indigo buntings showed up at her place about two weeks ago. Also, last week a rose-breasted grosbeak came to her feeders. She told me the appearance in our part of the country is very rare. They are native to Canada and Northeastern United States. Although they do migrate south for the winter, there patterns normally a
re east of the Rocky Mountains to Central Southern Mexico. How the little fellow wound up in Union, Mississippi is a mystery.
Again, my apologies to you, Anne. I do not know what happened with my voice mail. It has received no voice mails of any kind for several weeks now.
Saturday, I brought Summer home for the weekend. She has outgrown all her regular clothes, so I took her shopping for a couple of pairs of stretchy pants and a dressy slack set for church, that she should still be able to wear after her baby is born. She is four weeks away from her due date.
Sunday morning I had coffee on my front porch, listened to the sounds of the neighborhood and smelled the scents of spring. It is one of my favorite things to do. After church and lunch at home, Summer went home.
Please be in prayer for her. She is so young to be dealing with a pregnancy. She and the baby’s father broke up early in the pregnancy, and her mother will have full custody of him until Summer is 21.
The doctor has turned through paperwork for her to receive her school assignments for the rest of the school year at home. Hers is a high-risk pregnancy and her classes are scattered from one end of the school to the other.
Her doctor says it is far too strenuous and she should take it easy at home for the rest of her pregnancy. Other than the short period of clothes shopping we did on Saturday and church with me on Sunday, she spent the weekend relaxing. Jade came over to accompany her on the doctor-ordered daily walk.
While lunch was cooking Sunday, I worked in my flower garden a little while, and got two more amaryllises planted. One is pink, the other white.
Please have a safe and blessed week and I will see you back here next week.
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