News from the Mountain
Staff By CAROL GUNTER Sure hope everyone is up-to-snuff this Monday morning and had one great weekend. My weekend is always special when I get to be in the Lord's house and worship Him. Aubrey's aunt, Nornia Willard of Nashville, is not feeling too good at this time. she is 89 years old. Her left hand and two or three fingers were broken in a fall she had about a month ago. Recovered from all of that but now has the problem with the "sciatic nerve" that has been going on for over a week now. Please keep this grand lady in prayer. Can you believe - and will wonders never cease - this girl back at it working very hard this morning cleaning on our house? Looking a lot better and I am very pleased about the progress I have made. Why I always put this off beats me, but as I tell myself, I am an outside person and this is not my cup of tea to be doing housework. Surely other people let this happen, too, and I'm not in this boat all by myself. Last night "WAS" going to finish decorating our Christmas tree "UNTIL" all of those rock n' roll classics from the 60's came on the PBS station and brought that to an abrupt halt! Sure was hoping I didn't disturb my neighbors as I always crank up the volume quite a bit. I had to sit down in the recliner and put it in park, as "Aubrey" would say, and check out all the different groups and performers with their great songs that it seems I have loved forever. Speaking of Aaron, one time Aubrey and Aaron and some other guys went to pick up I think it might have been three or four old International Dozers and bring them back to our place. Well, where the dozers were, it would have been back in what I call the boonies. While getting some tin and other debris out of their way, they encountered snakes under a lot of this. Needless to say, gunfire remedied the situation with the snakes. One time when Aaron shot, the bullet ricocheted off a piece of equipment and hit Aubrey's leg. He told Aaron it was nothing and he was fine. At home that night Aubrey told me about all the fun they had that day and about his leg. He then asked me about some crutches that his sister "Glenda" had let him borrow, when his foot had been broken. Of course, I asked him what he was going to do. He said he was going to pull something on Aaron. I said surely you're not going to do that. He just gave me that grin. There was always that pause when Aubrey knew that the person had believed what he had said, and then he would look at you and just grin and you knew you had been taken in by this big guy. He was so good at doing thing. Quite a remarkable man who was talented in so many areas. Talked with Aubrey's sister, Betty Sue Hullett, who lives in Indiana on Sunday. We have to catch up on all the happenings here and in Indiana concerning the family. She is doing okay. Excitement is building around here as Friday, December 13th, is getting ever so much closer to being here. "Clyde" and my birthday celebration hopefully will go off without a hitch at Short Mountain Market. I do hope "Bobby" behaves himself as this is really a deep concern for me. Clyde seems to thing there might be a parking problem. The only parking problem I can see could be me parking the "monster truck". We have joked about if either one of us had written a book like "Wayne Gunter", Aubrey's cousin, we could "kill two birds with one stone", and have a book signing and people could come in droves for that. There might even be a parade. Oh how our minds do wonder! If you have any news for the column, just give me a call at (615) 563-4429.
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