"Too Late For A Crutch"

                  One less limb on the peach tree. I'm sure it won't miss it. 8-20-2019 Perryton, TX

 

It looks like I will be pealing peaches a lot this next week. Chuck's tree is so loaded the limbs are breaking. I plan to freeze as many as I can make room for in the freezer, and can the rest in jars. It's a lot of hard work, and I had sworn off of any more canning but those peaches are so good. They are much better than the ones you buy in the can. Peach cobbler is my favorite fruit pie. I will tackle the job starting tomorrow. I have been eating fresh peaches right off the tree for two weeks. I just must save as many as I can. It took me a week off and on to get an apples tree staked for Chuck. The ground was so hard till I had to keep pouring water in the hole before I could dig deeper. I finally got the hole deep enough, and drove the metal stake in the ground. I let it settle for a few days, and today I successfully got the little apple tree pulled back to where it was almost straight and tied it to the stake. Before it's trunk was almost touching the ground. Chuck planted it crocked a few years ago, and never staked it up. It took every brain cell I have to figure out how to straighten that bending tree up. Then it took all my muscle strength to follow through with my idea, It worked just fine, My son, Chuck, was even excited about the success. He does not have strength to help because of a bad lung problem, but he still likes to see his fruit trees bearing fruit each year.

I had a call today from a friend who moved to Oklahoma from Perryton several years ago. She had rented a house here and was in the process of moving back, but the house was found to belong to some drug dealers so she declined to take it. She wanted me to be on the look out for another one, so I now have another job to keep me busy. She is a good friend, and I want so much to help her find a place. Friends like her are rare, and only God can make them available for you. She and I can share the most secretive parts of our life, and feel comfortable with it. I am excited, and anxious to get her moved back. She will be a blessing to any church she decides to attend.

Hopefully I can make it to the Senior luncheon tomorrow, I have been missing too many, and it shows up on me when I start hearing so many things that happened while I was away. I don't like surprises when it comes to hearing about bad things happening to my Senior friends. Their lives are too important to me, and to the community to let misfortunes attack them. There is strength in unity, and that's what our Senior Citizens Center is all about. Let us keep building on that strength.

God Bless

Myrtle Jean Sharp