It’s Saturday morning and the pantry is empty and the refrigerator is bare. You know what time it is . . . time to shop for groceries. As you drive to your favorite grocery store, you already know the actions you are going take. You will enter the store, grab a buggy, and browse aisles upon aisles of products. After your cart is full and all items are checked off your list, you will head for the front to pay, hoping of course, to find the shortest and fastest checkout.

UT Extension provides resources to encourage learning throughout the summer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Just because children are out of school doesn’t mean learning has to stop! This summer, University of Tennessee Extension is excited to offer parents and caregivers fun resources and tips on how to teach children smart money habits that will stay with them throughout their lives.

Brent and Cindy Taylor were honored with a fiftieth wedding anniversary party May 28. The event was hosted by their family and held at Beaver Dam Baptist Church where the couple was married on June 16, 1972.
The Taylors traveled to Arizona and California in June and celebrated the actual day of their anniversary at Yosemite National Park, where they also spent their 20th anniversary.

Chickens are one of the best pets. What other pet can poop breakfast?
Eggs are only one of the many benefits of chickens. Most chickens fall into two categories, layers and broilers. Layers are defined as chickens whose primary purpose to lay eggs. Broilers are defined as chickens primary purpose is for meat production.

Farmers, veterans, and their families are invited to an evening of celebration for the farm community to be held at Heartland Meadows in Halls, Tennessee, on July 8, starting at 6 p.m. The program will feature presentations on Faith, Family, Farm, and Freedom. We will honor our special guests—representatives of the Greatest Generation who served during the World War II era—and all who have served or are serving in the armed forces of the United States.

What captures the eye may hold the key to research solutions
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — What is the value of a gaze? In the hands of researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, the value could be immense. The Institute’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics recently launched the REM Lab—an acronym for research, extension and marketing—to capture visual attention data that can be used to develop a myriad of solutions.

Dr. Paris Alton Palmer (Pat) was born in 1868 and died in 1951. He was the son of William Esau Palmer and Margaret Russell Palmer, grandson of Jesse Green Palmer and Sarah Sharp Palmer. He married Belle Miller, who was the great-granddaughter of Martin Luther Miller and “Pioneer” Henry Sharp, two of the first settlers of Sharps Chapel. Dr. Pat and his wife Belle were the parents of seven children, and from those siblings there were 10 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Some of you may be aware that I endeavored to start a travel blog last year. Well, life got busy and writing about where I had traveled wasn’t as appealing as actually traveling. My apologies.
I am making a second attempt by documenting our fiftieth wedding anniversary trip from which we just returned. Bear with me as I get you from Knoxville to Phoenix, Arizona.

My grandfather will be 98 years old this year. He is a veteran of World War II. Montgomery Jackson Kennedy, known as “Jack,” served in the U.S. Navy and survived an air raid by the Japanese while in the South Pacific. The air raid destroyed the small ship he was on and he was rescued shortly after by another navy vessel.

Many years ago Porter Wagoner did a recitation on his television show entitled “Trouble in the Amen Corner.” You can access it on YouTube.
The recitation tells the story of an old gentleman named Ira who sang in his church choir. His cracked voice did not harmonize well with the rest of the choir and he sometimes missed words.