The young people at Lockhart Freewill Church will be selling tickets for the March 9 dinner consisting of Chicken Strips, Baked Potato, Salad and Dessert. The dinner is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., eat in or take out. You can buy your ticket from the youth or Tess Wilbanks or Lori Roberts.

Chicken Stew

Don’t forget if you want Chicken Stew from Lockhart Fire Department on February 23 see one of the volunteer firemen or their wives for a ticket, the stew is $6 a quart. Tickets must be bought by the 16th.

“Wild Game Supper”

Lockhart First Baptist are getting ready for their annual “Wild Game Supper” on Saturday, March 9. See one of the members and get your ticket.

“Down By The River”

Tonight I went to our first meeting for Lockhart’s Festival, “Down By The River” sponsored by Jacob’s Well and Jubilee Ministry. The festival will be held on April 6 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you are a vendor and want to join in, please contact Barry Canupp. Just a few of the highlights so far: We will have gospel singing by Erin Bobo and Amy House; at 5 p.m. it will be Kellie Allen and Pattie Turner; at 6 p.m. the Childers (Jantzen, Eric, and Jay); at 7 p.m. the Riverside Boys. Also singing will be Gina Childers, Luke Jenkins, and Pat Johnson. Do I have your interest so far?

We will have a couple of Classic Car Clubs showing their cars off. Team Aruba, slides, corn hole tournaments, face painting, woodcarvers, and we’re working on some more activities.

We will also have a Motorcycle Run. Registration is the day of the event, there will not be an early registration. Registration is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lockhart Town Square. Kickstands up at 1:15 p.m. The Blessing of the Bikes will be following the ride, where you will receive a patch. Entry fee will be $10 with a $5 passenger fee.

As I mentioned before, I will keep you updated to our plans, but I hope you put us on your calender for April 6.

Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, February 14. I hope you didn’t forget your sweetheart Thursday, because it’s really hard to get out of the dog house. Unless you’re like my husband was, one special occasion was just like another one. Just another day. And I did tell you last year at this time about my special valentine from him, but in case you didn’t read my column last year I’ll repeat it, because it’s kind of amusing.

He was a Shriner and would go off to different meetings, and always come home real late. So Valentine’s night I was asleep and he came in and woke me up and gave me a big red Valentine box of candy, which I told him that was really sweet of him to think of me. He said that they had sold them at the meeting he went to and they had just one left so he bought it. Yeah! He used to buy me tires for our car on my birthday, also.

Mortgage Burning

Wesley Chapel celebrated the burning of their mortgage Sunday, and had a dinner afterwards.

Birthdays

Denise Sanders had a birthday on February 12. Mary Ann Grady, Aubrey Garner, and Wayne Nations are Valentine Birthdays on the 14th. Karen Gibson, on the 16th, Dot Brawley on the 15th. On the 17th are Mary Lee Eaves and Zack Turner. On the 19th are Trudy Smith and Sue Palmer.

Anniversaries

Happy Anniversary to Paul and Susie McCutcheon on the 14th of February and the 17th for Robert and Loretta Warr and the 21st for Bud and Margaret Braddock.

Building A Gate

If you are one of my customers, then you’ve noticed that I’ve put up a gate on my shop porch. The first day I had to keep going out and letting everyone in, because they couldn’t get the latch open.

Well let me start off by telling you about this gate, I figured that if I bought the lumber for one it might take a couple of years for Chuck to make me one, because he’s a busy man. So I decided to make one myself. I bought a tall baby gate and some hinges. How hard can that be?

Well, Chuck did show up to help me, but by day two it was about torn down because, well never mind, anyway I bought some Ls and Chuck put them on the corners and put it back together. Then I asked him to make me a Redneck Latch. Now it’s a stick that moves on a nail. I think we’ve got it!

Clever Animal

Which animal do you think is clever, a cat or a dog? A cat, of course, have you ever seen cats pulling sleds through snow and ice?

Well, it’s time to say good night, call if you want to share any news, or if you are looking to rent a house. 1-864-545-6652