Christiansen's Comments from Hinds county Gazette June 02 2011

Okay first things first….

Very Urgent

We are having Bible School at the Edwards Presbyterian Church , July 20, 21, and 22...every child is welcome….so mark your calendars. But the reason I bring this up now is Lesley Cannada is organizing Bible school for us and she is in a desperate search of a camel …a real camel….You got one? I promise it will be well loved and we will not be trying to pull it through the eye of a needle.

Edwards Prebyterian Church

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It is not what you know, it is who you know…

I did not know Keith Jenkins except that he is the writer of the Bolton News. But I do know Doug Beard. Doug Beard invited Doug and Kay Turner and myself to come to the Farr Road Bridge that goes over I-20 to watch the Annual “Run for the Wall” , well the riders came through much earlier then in previous years, so we missed it , but we didn’t miss the neighbor hood cook out Keith hosted in his front yard….Hot dogs and hamburgers, homemade desserts, good conversation…. those Bolton folks are so hospitable and friendly!

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Speaking of Doug Turner…he retired recently and he has been working replacing the rotted wood on my house…as I said. Doug is retired, so he works me in when there is not something more fun to do….like cook outs and the like….Which suits me, I am retired too and no hurry. Doug is about finished with the front porch…Remember way back yonder I told you my back steps had been built as a temporary solution? So I asked Doug to put me on his list for new back steps….



Doug and Scout



Doug and were discussing the back steps… when I had an epiphany! …“I don’t want steps! I want a ramp! “ ……at first Doug was not sure a ramp was such a good idea, because right now he didn’t think I needed one. But when I explained I could just load my groceries, bottled water, etc in a cart and pull them up the ramp and how helpful a ramp would be getting those 50 pound bags of dog food to the back porch, I sold him…But I thought if both Doug and I think the ramp is a good idea…I just knew Kay would hate it…Kay is sort of my ecstatic advisor.

 I called Kay, and she did hate the ramp idea… vehemently hated the ramp idea….Kay didn’t care if the ramp would ease my burden, it was tacky …Then, way on after while she remembered Charlie, my old dog, and how his old bones are beginning to bother him…and she said, ”It would make it much easier for Charlie get in and out.” and with that thought, Kay was on board. With Kay Turner, Kay Turner it is all about the animals and their comfort and their convenience.

By the way, Kay and Doug son, Jeff will be in New York New York doing a show in June…so if you are in New York !

http://metropolitanroom.com/show.cfm?id=84640

Hey I got to go,

call if you need me or find a camel.

Post Script

We are in mourning here at 201.....My old dog Charlie died this week.



Charlie at my pre Chemo party
March 2006



Christiansen's Comments from 03/31/2011 Hinds County Gazette

We have had lovely weather of late….

I have gotten much accomplished in the yard….lawn mowed, and trimmed, a tree moved and replanted, sprayed 3 gallons of Round Up and dug up day lilies…plan to replant the lilies when I finish here. And I have moved the fire pit from the back yard to the front yard.




You might be a red neck if…you have a fire pit made out of used concrete blocks in your front yard.

                                                                      Fire pit in the distance....
                                The white things are concrete stools I made...Just gets tackier and tackier...

All of my lawn care equipment has now been cranked and ready for Spring and Summer 2011…the string trimmer needed no encouragement, it cranked on the first pull, the push mower started after replacing his spark plug, on the second pull, ….the riding mower after getting a new spark plug was still a bit hesitant, Then Doug Tuner squirted ether in to his carburetor, that dose of ether had Riding Mower, singing a different tune. After receiving the ether treatment Riding Mower was more then happy to get up and get to work.



Doug retired last fall, he has been here the last couple of weeks replacing rotted wood on my house…we are looking good here at 201! I am so tickled…I was getting depressed looking at the rot…no one else seemed to notice it. But folks are noticing my house is looking nice now…some thought it had been painted or had gotten a new roof ….

                                                                           Doug on the scaffolding
                                                                     Kay and Jo Gayle on the ground...


Saturday I went to town to get the ferns for the front porch and while at the nursery I picked up a few azalea bushes …I am planting the azaleas as a screen between the fire pit and the house.



You might still be a red neck…. Even if you plant azaleas to hide the fact you have a cement block fire pit in your front yard.



It is 7:20 AM Monday morning March 28. Bertha Rather just called, she and Charles heard on the scanner, (Charles is a volunteer fireman) that there was an ambulance called to Worrell Road….that is where our Ms. Worrell lives.  Ms. Worrell is 98...will be 99 in July.  Let me go see what I can find out….I will let you know what I know.



9:30 still no word…and no answer at Burleigh.

Ms. Worrell's home

"Burleigh"

11:30 I can’t get REBUL to answer the phone. Brooke, Ms. Worrell's son, teaches at REBUL

11:58ish REBUL answered, Brooke is not in today, he is with his mother at the hospital. The nice man that answered the phone at REBUL seemed to think things, at the moment things were going well with Ms. Worrell….



That’s all I know now.

Love to all