By Lula Anderson
Welcome March! First let me remind you to Spring ahead this weekend to Daylight Savings time. We will be able to enjoy more time outside—if it ever warms up. We've had a couple of teaser days, only to have it go back into the teens at night. I hope the sap is running, although it hasn't really reached above freezing during the days even though we have flirted with it. I want to go break a couple of branches to see how things are progressing. I went out on Sunday, and the wind blew right through me, thought I was going to freeze. Hopefully by the end of the month we will have outdoor weather again.
Signups for the WAJ Drama Club are still going on. The Senior Citizen Dinner Theater/ dress rehearsal is Thursday March 13th. If you don't sign up and show up, don't complain if they run out of food. Call Opal at 518-750-8380. Keep in mind that we will be collecting donations for the Drama Club.
On March 14th, the Windham Hensonville UMC will be holding its annual Corned Beef lunch. The cost this year is $18 for Corned beef sandwich, chips, coleslaw, dessert and a drink. Serving starts at 10:30.
March 15th is an all you can eat breakfast at the Ashland Town Hall benefit of the Ashland Historical Society. Starts at 7:30 thru 11. Save some room for the Annual Corned Beef Dinner at the Masonic Lodge in Windham in the afternoon.
This week starts the Lenten Season, starting with Ash Wednesday on March 5. I'm sure you all know that means it's the start of Hensonville Hose Company's Friday Fish Fries. Fish, clam strips or chicken tender dinners come with french fries or baked potato, coleslaw and a brownie. $20,
March 30th is the fifth Sunday, which means the Mt Top Methodist Parishes will be having combined church services in Ashland starting at 9 AM.
Happy 60th birthday to Randy Sutton.
Prayers and sympathy to the family of Marilyn VanEttan McKracken (JoEllen's sister)
Get well wishes to Ray Benjamin.
AS I REMEMBER IT
Since I decided to forego rehab and come home from the hospital, my medical team wants me to be on bed rest. I sit and wait for my food to arrive, I sit and wait for the therapist to come, and for the nurse. I wait for my repairman to fix my hot water, and I sit and wait—----. So I watch television. On Saturday, I was watching the Incredible Pol Farm which follows Charles Pol and his family as they work to establish a farm on 350 acres of undeveloped land. This segment was learning about bees, and making raised beds for their vegetable garden to prepare for spring. Then they made a large pond with a big rock for dangling feet in the water. I became entranced by the large rock. I must have fallen asleep because I was soon going back in time to when my sister and I had matching rocks way up on a hill on the farm. Florence and I would bring our dolls and play by the hour. Our rock was our home for the day. We could sit and listen to the wind blowing through the grass and trees, hear the birds sing, and be in our own world.
If you go to Hunter by Rt 17 in Jewett, you go to the bottom of the hill and on the left is a large rock sitting in the middle of a hay field. When Jeanne and Clarence Soule lived there, there was always a path mowed to, and around it. Picnics would be held on that rock, kids would sit and daydream on it. In the '50's, it was a meeting place for Peggy, Judy and Janet.
Along the creek in Jewett, are many large rocks, each one a perfect picnic place. How many bologna sandwiches were eaten on those rocks? How much KoolAid was consumed there? Judy's sons always headed right for the creek when they came up to visit Grandma and PaPa. After Anthony married, his wife always let him go to the creek alone until one day she was invited to go. It was then that she found "The Rock". As she sat there, she realized what the attraction was. The Hudecek family has made a tradition of pictures on the rock as the girls (3rd generation now) grew up.
On Tuesday mornings, WRIP does a fitness segment with Gerard Friedman from Bellhouse Fitness. The past two weeks they have been talking about Mindfulness and relaxation methods. One way to relax is put yourself into your "Happy Place". Is there anything more relaxing than picturing yourself in the middle of a field, or creek, perched on a huge rock, just listening?
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