By Lula Anderson
Ah retirement! The days pass by and it seems like the summer is endless. No, that is what I hope for. In reality, I still have no time at all to do what has to be done. I should have been able to get this written two days ago, but am hurrying to get this in by tomorrow's deadline. I haven't been able to see my kitchen sink in quite a while, so that has to get done. I have a dishwasher, but the dishes don't put themselves away. Sheets are washed, but the bed needs to be remade. The hurrier I go the more I get behind.
Judy and Susan Hitchcock Neugebauer made their annual birthday trip to Albany to see Janet Hudecek. While there Janet invited over a new resident who was related to the Steele family of Ashland. His entire family is buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetary. Most astonishing is that his father graduated from Windham School in 1914. I had to opportunity to speak with him over the phone, and in October will be meeting with him and his family. I am pulling out all the deeds that show his family's past holdings. The Steele family owned all of the land across the street from my present house including the former Lawrence farm. As, even he put it, the barn that is no longer there on the turn to Jewett was theirs, and all of the land going up Jewett Mountain where Larry Lawrence lived. How small the world is., and how a chance encounter can bring out so much
The WAJPL Craft classes are going well. There's still time to join us. 10 AM Tuesday mornings. Our next meeting will be on August 5th with a visit from the Greene County Dept of Aging who will be discussing Vaccines—Not just for kids. Join us for useful information and the programs that Greene County has for our Senior Citizens. The representatives are always glad to take the time to speak with you about your needs. The following meeting on August 19th will feature Dottie Pickett from Gilboa who has great post cards and information on the Gilboa Dam project and the drowned town of Gilboa. Our meeting start at 1 pm at our Senior Meeting Room at the Ambulance building on the corner of South Street and 23 across from the Chicken Run.
Joy for the parish in Maplecrest and the pastor's family who welcome baby, Seth into the family. Prayers and sympathy for the family of Janette Becker of Lexington and Carol Murry of Prattsville and for the Hitchcock family.
AS I REMEMBER IT
Last week I gave the message at Mitchell Hollow about being baptized in the River Jordan. I spoke about ponds that are murky, dirty and smell bad, and I thought about the ponds that the governmental powers that be had all farmers put in as a fire pond. At that time, every third space was a farm, so there was a lot of digging and catching water. We were lucky that we lived, and farmed, on the Batavia Kill, so didn't have to dig a pond. If we continued to farm, we would now, no longer, be able to use the Kill water, and would have to fence it off so the cows don't "pollute" the water way. Oh, the deer that use that path from the mountain to the creek are getting caught on the fencing and are dying. At least the water isn't being used. Progress? We can be thankful that the Clifford Lawrence family did most of the digging, so our neighbors profited, but now we have so many man-made ponds in the middle of fields that are being overgrown by weeds and overgrowth, and wonder why they are there.
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