Columns

I wonder how many people braved Black Friday. It was definitely a little scary. I heard that Johnson City had a huge crowd for the lightning of the Courthouse and for the Lighted Hooves and Wheels Parade. Way to go JC. Pat Stokes, Bill Stokes, and Elizabeth Sooter provided a Thanksgiving feast for friends and family @ the JCHA Community Room.

For more than three decades, Dr. James F. Barnwell served Blanco County as a physician, surgeon and respected community leader. Dr. Barnwell established the county’s first hospital, owned the first automobile, had the first electricity and radio and performed the first Cesarean Section operation in this part of the country.

*****Hope you had a great Thanksgiving & much fun at Lights Spectacular, Hill County Style!*****Lights Spectacular opening weekend was a huge success. Thank you to everyone that set up the Chuckwagon Food Court and the Garden Club ornament sales inside. Of course, it would not be “Hill Country Style” without an appearance by Santa and Mrs.

It is raining today or at least it is trying to rain. All of us seem to be ready for some rain and consider it a big blessing for whatever we get. Hi folks! Tenants, there is no Third Friday Luncheon this week, but we are having a Thanksgiving Luncheon sponsored by First Christian Church for Sunday, November 20th, 2011.

A few years ago a man went on a rampage from California to Texas killing and maiming several people. He was apprehended near Van Horn, Texas, where he was incarcerated, tried and convicted of murder. During the trial a local minister testified that, while in jail, the perpetrator had found the Lord, was a new man and that he should be shown mercy. So what is the relationship between justice and mercy as it applies to each of us? As we approach the Thanksgiving and Christmas h ...

Shame on Ima for forgetting to send in last week’s column. Miss Snoop cannot promise it won’t happen again, but will do her best not to forget! ***** LuCydne Lynn, LeAndy Pletcher, their mother & their two daughters went to Dallas & met with some old friends from Dimmitt, & did some serious shopping & had a wonderful time seeing people from Dimmitt. ***** Last Friday Mary Weirich & grandaughter Savannah Elkins headed for Waco to ...

My oh my, getting back that one hour of sleep is wonderful. I did not even know I missed it till I got it back. Our Tenant Association had a Bake Sale @ Super S on Saturday. I heard it went really good. Thank you to all the Tenants that helped to make it such a success. Tenants if you have forgotten to R.S.V.P.

Mondays were wash days when I was growing up. Mom had an old wringer washing machine in the basement where she would spend an entire morning washing clothes and putting each item through the wringer. She had to be careful to avoid popping the buttons off the shirts when she put them through those rollers.

Halloween! We had as much fun as the trick-or-treaters. There were many scary costumes and we had a wonderful time seeing each and every costume. I hope everybody enjoyed Halloween as much as we did. Don’t forget to fall back one hour on November 6th, 2011. Here we go to Standard Time Returning.

I had a coach in high school who told his team that as long as he was yelling at us everything was alright. "It’s when I quit yelling at you that you need to worry because when I stop yelling at you, I have lost confidence in you." Minerva Teichert (1888-1976) had a similar experience.