Sandi’s Country Fried News

Mark on your calendars every 5th Sunday there will be Breakfast at 8:15 AM at the Belmont United Methodist Church. Following is church at 9AM which is when the congregation gets to pick their songs.

The Belmont Ladies Club is going to have their Annual Fund Raising Rummage Sale at the Community Center sometimes in April. Please keep that in mind when you go on your spring cleaning rampage.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: William Fink,  Joe Gary Kotwig, Sandi Gandre, Janet Clark, Mary Be Arnold, Bill Lott, Jack and Joyce Black, Kathy and Tony Black, Daniel, Jack Finch,  Pam Mc Kee, Harold Willmann, Marilyn Bird, Sara Roecker, Ferd West, Joy Maynor and Laddie, plus Deanie; Cody Hester and his passenger, Vida Tindle, Melda, Sonny Flores, Dennis Richter, Ron B.,  Aunt Betty Gandre, Anna Lindeman, Shirley Dozier, Gaston and Ophelia Thurmond, Courtney Strait, Taelyn Thwing, Alvin Hewell, Britt Hindman, Scott Hindman, Susan Lowe Ward, Garrett Muelker, Henry Sepulveda, Bessie Rodriguez, Stanley Burris, Clay Koepp, the family of Annie Bess Jones, The family of Jack Biddle, The family of Esther Moore,  the family of Royce Towns Sr., the homeless, our troops and their families

Okay, Stanley Burris, you did not call me on the phone, so I guess I can write anything that I want to write about you in this column. If I heard correctly through the grapevine, this is the week you are supposed to have you “eye tuck” done. Stanley had an infection in eye earlier in the year, and it made his eyelid droop to where he could not see. Now they are able to take the eyelid and tuck it up to where the person can see out of the eye again. I think that is a wonderful that they can do that so easily.  Please do not get it infected or they might have to start this all over Stanley.

We need to say some extra prayers for Jimmy Kelley. He said that he had to go back to the doctor for his walking pneumonia. He got some more antibiotics and a couple of other pills.  I sure hope that they work because his chest was wheezing and rattling like a freight train trying to go up a steep hill. We hope you get to feeling a lot better real soon.

Yes, several of you are right.  Will and I celebrated our Forty-fourth Wedding Anniversary on February 18th.  Young people look at us in shock and make comments that hope that their marriages last that long. That is when I want to shake them a little bit and tell them that they should be saying in the more positive frame of mind, “we are looking forward to celebrating 44 years of marriage”. We went on a refreshing hiatus and got our “batteries” recharged for another year. Will and I have a delightful time just driving around exploring new scenery, looking at new buildings that have been built during the past year, eating at new restaurants and trying new and different kinds of food. We are always glad to get home to our critters, and they are always glad to see us. This is the first year we had had to leave these hoodlum cats. Boy that Dililah cut the rug for this Mama.  She started running circles on the bed chasing a plastic wrapper until I think she got a little dizzy. She was so happy to see me that she did not know what to do. That little ball of fuzz was just beside herself with happiness. She has gotten so fat and fluffy that I can put my hands on her tummy and bury them there and not find them. Samson came next to give me the once over. He just did not like any of the foreign smells but he finally simmered down. You know those two hat boxes I bought around Christmas---these cats have made them their podium and that is where they crashed.

Twerpt is used to our jaunts, but that Sweet Pea was so disgusted that I didn’t know if she was ever going to forgive me. I finally had to put her in my lap and give her extra petting and loving. She is just going to have to learn as second guard dog in line that this is what is expected of her.

Before we left our rooms this morning some poor people pulled in from Minnesota. I bet that they thought they had hit a little bit of Heaven down here in this 70 degree weather. Then some others came in with two basset hounds. The top floors have a balcony where they can let a dog that size out and are not able to go over or through the railing. So they were outside taking in the sunny afternoon.

We had a rather eye-opening experience with a gentlemen when he asked if he could put me on his daughter’s prayer list. He said he wanted to be specific as to what exactly was wrong with me so I told him. His daughter prays for those on the list in the book and then they go into a treasure chest by her bed. He said that she realizes that sometimes God says NO and sometimes God says MAYBE and sometimes He says YES. This lady had shattered her ankle in a car accident, it was not mending correctly, it had pins, bolts, etc., and it caused her terrific pain. One morning she woke up and there was no pain, and she could walk on it without the boot. She called her doctor who told her to come to his office immediately. The x-ray showed that the ankle had never been broken. Her doctor was astounded and called in three other doctors to verify it. The lady called Bob and told him the great news, So Bob was on cloud nine as he waited to go home and tell his daughter about this.  He walked in the door calling,”Brenna, I have something wonderful to tell you about the lady that had the car accident.” Brenna, said “Oh you mean the lady that was healed.” Bob said that he thought to himself, that his four year old daughter had prayed with total faith that God had done what she had prayed for, and he had prayed with her and had not had a bit of faith that any of the prayers that they had prayed were going to be answered. Bob said that he felt so small. So now Bob tries to say, “When these prayers are answered.”