I never complained or griped

Gravelly news, by Glenna Goodson

A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license. She replied in a huff,"I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take my license away and then today you expect me to show it to yu!" Our Gravelly Eastern Star will have a bake sale tomorrow ,the 1st, at the Danville Bank. We have sold our cakes and goodies there before and have done well, so I hope a lot of people are hungry for something sweet as they cometo do business at the bank.

I attended a party at Brenda Turner's at Rover last Monday night. Melanie Sawyer was our demonstrator for Beauti Control,Spa Escape products. It was good to have fun with my Christian friends. Iwas so gladto see Becky and Emily Patton. Becky says things are gong well forthem at Danville 1st Baptist church.The next time I am in Danville, I plan to go to the church and visit with Tim. one of my very favorite people! I toldthe group at Brenda's that I needed to rent a room for weekends so I wouldn't have to drive so far to church.Brenda saysshe has an extra room.Sarah Light says"you mean you could stand listening to Johnny and Glenna fight all weekend!" Now folks, Johnny and I don't really fight--we just yell at each other!!

I was looking at my sister's humming birds and her birds are twice as big as mine are!!I love to sit out in the yard and watch mine--one of them has the most beautiful multi-colored tail. One bird is a beautiful, green color.Some have red necks-I understand they are the males. When I first re-fill their jar of sugar water-one little bird will come from the close by tree and drink. He obviously goes back to the tree and tells the others because they just come in droves to the sugar water.

If you will click on my son's blog where he places this article every week, you will see that the picture he used last week forthe column, was of me standing behind a huge net of fish Fred had caught that day. We were at the Cove at Texoma where the fish were being weighed. Go to http//gravellyark.blogspot.com/

I look at our worship areas in our churches today and my mind goes back to when Iwas a young person at Mulberry FWB church. Of course we did not have a nursery so your children had to stay with you--but guess what? They did not disturb the service. When we got older and sat with our friends we had better not disturb either. Lisa Millard Davis tells of one time when her Dad, Pat Millard, was pastor at Mulberry. She and my sister, Kathy, were kinda getting loud talking. Pat just stopped his sermon and told Lisa to shut up!That's one way to do it!! My cousin, Billy Euel, told me a tale I could hardly believe!Of course we did not have air conditioning at the church when I was a young teen and in the summer time, all the windows were opoened. Billy said he and Bob Roy, my brother, always sit by an open window and during the service they would climb out the window, smoke a cigarette outside and then climb back in the window!I could not believe that my mother nor Aunt Dora ever caught them, but obviously they were interested in the sermon and were not looking around. Gee, we had lots and lots of young peopole at Mulberry then. I will never forget when Mr. Artman and his wife came from Ca. and bought a place not far from the blue hole. He was very interested in us young people. He met with us and organized a young people's program called "League." Mr. Artman will have another star in his crown in Heaven because of his love and concern for young people.

John Meredith is selling his mobile home. He has it parked in front of the Gravelly store. Check it out. I have friends in OKC, even older than me(Imagine that!) and all spring and summer they take off in their travel trailer. Maybe one reason that does not excite me is that i know Fred would only be looking for fishing places.

Katie Fickle is recuperating at home after surgery on one of her legs. The doctor put two stints in that leg and one stint in her foot. I miss Katie at the Gravelly store and I pray she will soon be well.

Mr. Damon is our clerk in the Gravelly store most ofthe time now. He is fun to talk to and he seems to enjoy being there. He told me Gale caught him napping one day and he was in trouble. I THINK he was teasing!!

Loucinda and her grandson ,Michael, were on their way back from Nimrod last week-end. She had driven her truck and she told Michael she was low on gasoline andthey would get gas at the Plainview Superette. When they got there, it was closed--Michael says,"Just go to another station" and Loucinda rold him there was no other stations around. So they started to Wing and Michael kept looking at the gas gauge and how close it was to empty and telling his grandmother how they were going to run out of gas. Loucinda says"Michael, you should be positive about this--quit being negative andbe positive." Michael said,"I am positive--I am POSITIVE we are gong to run out of gas.!" But they got home okay.

When this issue of the Record is published there should be a picture of our reunion committee for our F.V school reunion.,so check it out.They work really hard to make sure it is a good gathering, but they also really enjoy the planning and look upon it as a fun time--not just hard work.Did yu ever notice that if in your work you complain and gripe, then the desired effect is not near as much fun. Gee, when I pulled that cotton sack trying to pick at least 100 pounds of cotton that day, i never complained or griped. The same with hoeing of cotton. I was in the field with Troy Lee Gwin,Tony Gene and Tomilyn Carter, William Hogue, my Highfill cousins. We were having fun whle we were working hard. One time when we were picking up potatoes, I was just getting over chicken pox. My mother had told me not to pick at my facebut my Aunt Geet was coming from N.Y.City to visit and I picked the scabs from my face, cause I did not wantto be ugly when Aunt Geet saw me.While picking up those potatoes, my Uncle Loy Highfill, was staring at my face, He said he believed I'd better go inside. Well, I went inside, looked in the mirror and almost fainted. When i had gotten in the sun, all those scars, that were caused by me picking my face,came to the surface. Should have listened to my mother.

Do you agree--The shortest sentence is "I Am" and the longest is "I Do."