April Michele

I love the Fourth of July. We always get to gather around family and friends, eat good food and celebrate the night with fireworks. I only remember one Fourth of July that is rained. I believe they just shot off all the fireworks the next night. So we got an extra day to celebrate our country’s birthday!

Today we thank our soldiers for serving their country. It is a somber holiday for people who have lost a loved one to war or accidental death while in the service. We lost our father many years ago to Cancer, but he served our country in the war and I think of him fondly on every Memorial Day.

There is this one couple that has been coming here for the past 4 years.  I see them several times a year in fact but there was something a bit different about the lady this time.  Come to find out, she had plastic surgery done.  It was absolutely amazing how much younger she looked.

Now I’m not as old as she is but it sure started me thinking just a bit.  If you are going to have something like this done, please make sure you find a reputable plastic surgeon.  We have all seen and heard about the nightmares of a bad plastic surgeon so what ever you do, make sure you find a good one and not some fly by night doctor.  I sure will if and when I have something like that done.  In fact, I’ll ask Mrs. Thompson who did hers since she looks so good.

Well we did have a weekend to ourselves and on Sunday morning, we always play some type of gospel music unless it offends any of our guests.  This Sunday, we decided was a perfect Sunday to hear Elvis sing gospel.  This is one of my favorites because you can see the pure joy in his face and hear it in his voice as he sings for fun with JD Sumner and the Stamps quartet. Thank goodness for youtube so I could share this with you.

Back to school time will be here before we know it and as usual, we are running our ‘back to school’ special which is that if they bring a book bag full of the supplies a child would need, they get one night half price.  We have to look out for the children with all of the cutbacks in the school system.

It has become a tradition here that we collect school supplies and even people from the community will stop by to donate a few items here and there.  They ask nothing in return either.  It’s all done just out of the goodness of their hearts.  This is a great community and I just love it here.