Freddie Hoelscher’s obituary was in the paper this week and his services are on Friday.  Will not be able to attend and am very sorry.  I feed his kitty, Charlie, and it is very sad when his dog comes to…

Read of the passing of Gail Lierly on Thursday.  Remember her from my time living in Augusta.  Sorry to hear. Also the brother of a friend passed on Wednesday.  John Merker was the brother of Dan (Jean) Merker.  Dan is…

Received word that Wayne Selby has passed away.  He attended Colchester High School.  He moved to Alaska and had a fishing boat there.  One of Ben’s son’s worked on the fishing boat for a summer.  Ben and Jim Baier also…

Martha Gray passed away on Thursday.  I believe she was postmaster at Plymouth.  Her brother, Donnie Logan, was a good friend of my father.  They both loved Indian relics.  Our sympathy to the family. Monday I was sitting on my…

I have quite a few birds in my yard all winter because I feed them.  This week I saw several rose breasted grosbeaks and I think a Baltimore oriel.  They may have just been passing through as I have not…

Many of you will remember Mable and Keith Horney who lived in the big house with columns just north of Augusta.  Keith had a Rock Shop in the barn near the house.  Got the news that Keith passed away this…

Sunday it was like a gathering of the nice people at KD’s Coop for lunch.  Gerald and Ella Mae Waddill, Mimi Lawton, the Rigsbees, John Henson, Mary Hohe, Tom Weinberg, Susan Conlan, Jeff Denny and his wife, J R and…

Watched a funeral procession go by the store on Friday.  That was very sad.  Learned today that Dylan Walker passed away on Friday.  So sorry to lose two young men from our communities.  I think both from similar accidents.  Please…

Our sympathy to the family of John O’Neal who passed away this week.  Two loses for one family so close together.  Also one of my class mates, David Feld, passed away this week.  Please pray for these families. Imagine our…

Mother Nature is having a great April Fools joke.  It has been snowing for about five  hours now and we have a good five inches of snow on the ground with no sign of it letting up.  Hope the snow…