SPRING HAS SPRUNG

The ornamental pears lining Cross Plains Main street are in bloom and one of my peaches bloomed yesterday. This morning I developed a better appreciation of Lent when while picking up trash on the highway during my morning walk I got stabbed by a thorn bush reaching for some trash and later noticed my arm was bleeding. But it wasn't a crown of thorns but reminded me of Christ's torture.

I started this morning at the Methodist Men's meeting and found out that one of the Methodists knew the fellow Sikes that had the Prius go out of control in California according to him. They knew him for years and finally quit doing business with him because of his questionable ethics and lies. Gives that story a new twist. I confirmed the story when they came through the line at the Kiwanis Pancake Supper tonight.

I got a lot of exercise this morning cleaning out the burn barrel. I do that about once a year. Tonight we had a very successful Pancake supper even with the threat of rain an hour before it started, then the sun came out and a lot of people came out. The High School was having a district track meet but a lot of people came and gave generously. My job is to take the money and talk the guests into contributing to the fund raiser. Many were very generous. It is a great time for the community to get together and visit over some great IHOP pancake batter cakes. I eat the ones filled with M&Ms. The small sausages were really good. All the members were working plus three from Abilene and all of the Senior Key Club members. Kathy just called and said she had read in their school newspaper that pancakes were first named that 125 years ago.