Mom (Jessie) used to take Janice and I on a walk through the woods hunting wild violets along the small stream banks behind our house each Spring. It was so much fun to find and pick the violets. We would also find little 4 petal daisies that are bluish lavender in color and the rooster heads (a smaller type of violet). We also looked for May Apples. They usually grow in groups on little knolls and have umbrella tops.

We enjoyed the dogwood in our woods and even had a wild pink dogwood. One of the places along the stream that we picked violets was named Yahoo Hole by Jon Barker. Ask Jon and Donny for more information about how that name came about.

As you know the Spring is the time for bees to make honey. It seems that Jon Barker was curious to know if bees could made honey out of a cat, so he proceeded to find out. Ask him about the whole story on that—Jon could you refresh our memory on this?

Janice Hilburn Patterson. She had recurrence of bone cancer in April, 2000. Since then she has a lot of prayer, radiation and chemotherapy, and she is feeling much better. The last report was questionable though as the doctor could not tell her if she was healing. She is to wait 2 months to have the tests run again, while taking a different type of oral cancer medicine. Thank you all so much who have prayed for her, but please continue to remember her in your prayers.

“Dutch” Dupree. Dutch is Melba Ward Dupree’s husband. He has been very ill with lung and heart problems as well as diabetes. Please continue to remember him and Melba and Margaret (Babe) his support team.

Phil Ward. Phil is May Cain Ward’s son (formerly known as Junior to many of us). He has Parkinsons’ and is doing fair, but needs your prayers.

Feel free to send in prayer requests.

The family of Palma Price (Jeanette Dupree’s mother), December 12, 2000.

The family of Bessie Cain Longstreath, who passed away November 7, 2000.

The family of Marie Edgmon Cunningham who passed away November, 1999.

The family of Benji Shoemake (Mary Lou Manning Belcher’s grandson), who passed away September 11, 1999.

The family of Jewel Rogers who passed away in early 2001 (Mitch and Tabatha Herring). In addition Tabatha lost her grandfather Owens in 2001.

Please make us aware of any other recent family losses.

Joyce Barker McCauley is doing much better after an illness than kept her down for two years.

Her granddaughter, Casie Goodwin (Larry McCauley’s daughter) will graduate from high school this year. She plays basketball, and runs track. She is 5’11” tall and gorgeous.

Using a Q-Tip, dip in a purex bottle. Dab a small amount of purex on the ant bite. Let stay there for approximately 30 seconds to a minute. Dab dry. This takes the poison of the sting out and stops the burning. WARNING: Be extremely careful with purex. It will eat your skin.

PACKING TIP

Need a good use for all of the Wal-Mart and plastic grocery bags? If you have packages to mail, these make very good packing with very little weight.

Corn can be planted in March.

Purple hull peas, squash, watermelons, onions, carrots, beets, radishes, can be planted in April.

Tomatoes can be planted after danger of frost is over or before if covered when it frosts.

Faith is born in the midst of adversity and is exercised when you put your trust in Him. You cannot track God but you can trust Him.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3, 5-6

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock ,and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth ;and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7-8