GOD first...Heavenly Father, each time we are given another day, we can either look forward to many blessings or do nothing and You still bless us. We have so many chances to honor a new day by fulfilling the day with love and gratitude to those around us as Your Amazing Grace gives us direction.
Lord, show us and help us in each of our new days to share love and gratitude to all we have around us. We ask in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Pray for those who are grieving, ill, suffering, or are in harm's way.
Mrs. Nutworth was going to go to another city to visit her sister. She carefully locked the house and tacked a note for the milkmanonthedoor.'NOBODY HOME, DON'T LEAVEANYTHING.'
When she got home that night, she found her door smashed in and her house almost empty with hardly anything recognizable. Hanging on a nail on the wall she saw on the note she left that morning with a message that was added to her note: 'THANKS! WE HAVEN'T LEFT MUCH.'
Ele Chew, news & photographer for the Cuero Record, did a fantastic job taking pictures of the band and some of the tractor pull this past week. I'm adding to her list several things she missed as her time Sunday evening event was for a few hours.
There were 20 vendors outside the hall on the grounds. And there were 40 entries to the BBQ Cook Off with a lot of cookers that came in their motor homes, and some with travel trailers, parked south of the dance hall on a lot that once was a baseball diamond. Across from the road going up to the hall, the parking lot was full as people came for all the events. Inside the eating hall, there were tickets sold for chances at a drawing for 8 different prizes. It was also the place where the judges selected the best of BBQ, beans, brisket, ribs, and other categories. The St. Paul Luther Leaugers were selling their very good tasting homemade ice cream. Also, hamburgers and all sorts of handy meals were sold for the ones hungry, which on Saturday night, everything was sold out.
One time when the ex-Mayor and I were eating icecream, she told me that she doesn't recognize anyone any more. I told her that is what happens when we get too darn old.
So many people helped with all the events, with a few locals and a few who came back to help Nordheim for the first time, making it one of the most successful events so far. Everything was well organized. Even the selling of the top five prize BBQ winners. Sunday's evening meal of BBQ pork was the final event with people coming from all around and the New Braunfels Village Brass Band were given free tickets to the meal. Also forgot to mention the free dance on Friday Night. A BIG THANK YOU to all who came and the workers who helped to put this event together.
Part 3 of the lady hay hauler.
At the breakfast table, before anyone took a bite of food, she introduced me as a fellow Texan and one of the witnesses who remembered hearing of the event of the woman who jumped to her death inside the Capitol Dome, splattering on the big star in the middle of the floor. The whole family cheered when she announced that she finally found somebody to back up her story that she told each time anyone would listen.
There was so much food for a breakfast. All we ever had back at the base was SOS toast, eggs, bacon, and juice. Seeing all the food on their table, I was taken aback by so much just for breakfast. The little old lady explained that her boys, 5 of them, 1 of them killed in WWII, all four worked at a paper mill and would take sandwiches and items from breakfast to work the whole day and come back home and finish the farming chores. Always had a light meal for supper.
Every time I see an old lady with hard working wrinkles on her face, I'm reminded of that little old lady who just happened to need someone to help her haul hay. See you next week.
