By Lula Anderson
I am so annoyed right now. I just spent over an hour typing up my news for the week, and suddenly it’s gone. I was just about to wrap things up and I have no idea what I did, but EVERYTHING that I wrote just mysteriously disappeared. I checked my drafts and the only thing left was a y. It’s now 3 PM and I have to start all over again. I told you about my lovely birds returning, and what I did, now I will make it short and sweet and go into coming events, as I don’t have the words left to write.
May is turning out to be a very busy month. Many activities to squeeze into our calendars. Don’t forget that Sunday May 12th is Mother’s Day. Make it a special day for her!
May 10th is the Annual Windham-Hensonville UMC pulled pork luncheon starting at 10:30. $15
May 10th from 2 until 6, the East Jewett UMC will be holding their Spring Rummage Sale at 2252 Rte. 23C and again on Saturday May 11th from 9 – 12. Something for everyone, Lots of seasonal decorations. Soup, Hot Dogs, salads and pies will be sold.
May 11th the Prattsville Fire Department will be holding a pork dinner from 4 – 7. Always a great meal!
May 13th the Ashland Community Church will be holding it’s annual Mother – Daughter covered dish supper in honor of Mother’s Day. Remember women, YOU are someone’s daughter! All women welcomed.
May 18th the Ashland Church will be holding a chicken BBQ. For $15 you will get a chicken half, baked potato, baked beans, marinated carrots, cole slaw, dinner roll and dessert. 2 – 6 or until sold out. Take outs only.
And now Memorial Weekend: Several parades, many yard sales, including mine at my house and The Jewett Veteran’s Monument committee is having a CHILI COOK OFF to help raise funds for the monument. Please call 518-734-5173 to sign up. I’m sure you have a CHILI recipe that is simply the BEST. Prove it by entering. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Penny Social and 50/50 drawing. A day full of excitement. Come to VFW Post 1545 5565 rt 23 Windham starting at 11 AM . Live music by Bill Holdridge during the day.
Don’t forget to come see what I am selling at my yard sale to benefit the Ashland Church
Saturday June 1 WAJPL Golden Agers will be sponsoring a Blood Drive at the Windham Ambulance building Community Room from 9 – 1. To schedule an appointment call 1-800-733-2767 or www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code WindhamAmbulance. Get a voucher for a free pint of Stewart’s Ice Cream.
Please join us for Breakfast! All to benefit the WAJ Scholarship Fund! June 9th at the Windham VFW from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM. 50/50 RAFFLE!! Proudly sponsored by the Windham Rotary Foundation
Mark your calendars….
WAJ Alumni Association dinner, Sat., 8/10/24, Hunter Mt. Copper Tree Restaurant; $50/each, best price & place.
Happy Birthday to Edsel Partridge 80 years old and to Steve Walker’s mother 90.
Louise Mudge is home from the hospital and is doing well.
Sympathy to the family of David Cazzaza from K & J Campgrounds and to the family of Al Price.
AS I REMEMBER IT
It’s spring time and traditionally the time for spring cleaning. Now a days, I just take out my summer clothes and put away my winter ones. But when I was little, the first sunny day, my mother would declare it was time to strip the house. We’d start upstairs. My mother would decide what bedroom to start with, and the men would take the mattress outside to air. Pillows were put on the line to air, and we would start with the bed. We had metal beds and we would take them apart. My mother was scared to death of getting bedbugs, so we would wash the frame down with kerosene, then again with soapy water. The wallpaper seams were checked as bugs would hide there. The rugs would be rolled up and taken out and put on the clothesline to be beaten. Have you ever seen a rug beater? It’s a wicker paddle, quite decorative so that you could display it between seasons so it wouldn’t get lost. The floors would get swept and scrubbed. Curtains were taken down and washed, windows washed. Summer curtains, which were lighter and let in more air, were put up. Bedding was taken downstairs to be washed and the quilts aired. When the floors were finally dry, the bed would be put together, spring and mattress put back on. Usually, the rugs would remain rolled until the fall cleaning cycle, as they were too warm for the summer months. By the end of the day, the first room was pristine, and smelled like spring. Now it was time to think about what room would come next. I’m so thankful that I don’t have to do that anymore. It takes me until fall just to get my summer clothes out now.