It fills me with dread. Every time I’m out with my mom and there’s a “Clearance” sign, I know it’s time to find a seat somewhere and wait, and wait, and wait.

My mom is the kind of shopper that doesn’t like to leave a stone unturned. But when she sees a "Clearance" sign, it's worse. Usually, she finds some items she likes and she’ll carry them around while doing her second run through.

If you paid attention in health class you know that our body needs to move materials around to function properly, such as oxygen. The transportation system is the bloodstream, which utilizes red blood cells as a bucket brigade, going to the lungs via veins to pick up oxygen, and carrying it to various body locations via arteries. A tree has similar needs and uses a liquid transportation system.

Here is a variation on a lemon meringue pie I hope you will try. So, you have problems with pie crust? This crust can't go wrong. Just stir up the ingredients and press into the bottom of the pan. Cook the filling and top the crust with it. Spread with meringue and pop it in the oven. There you have it. A nice easy version of a lemon meringue pie. Also, you can get up to 15 servings out of the pan.

LEMON MERINGUE DESSERT

Crust:
1 1/4 cups plain flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup cold butter or margarine
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

My son, Tommy, worked for Domino’s back in the mid-90s, to earn money to attend the University of Tennessee. He had an old Dodge sedan my brother had fixed up for him, and a good memory of the neighborhoods of Athens. It wasn’t a bad job; he got a salary and tips.

I’ve always been in awe of the heavens above me on a dark, clear night. The majesty of the brilliant points of light that make up the starry canopy above our planet is enough to take your breath away, if you pause long enough to appreciate it. Try to count the visible starts in the night sky. If you are far enough away from city lights, the task soon becomes impossible as you lose your place while finding dimmer objects in between the brighter ones.

There was street parking only for most of the morning on May 11, when the Sharps Chapel community came together to celebrate a long-anticipated event at the Historic Oak Grove School, now home to the Sharps Chapel Book Station.

Norris Lake Quilting Bee members Mary N. Johnson, Emily Lemming, Rita Poteet, Nancy Sullivan, Judi Gerew, Rebecca Miller, Janet Pauciulo, along with three Sharps Chapel residents, Kirra, Judy and Peyton Duncan made a decision to dive headfirst into a community project.

It’s a posture so common we almost don’t notice it anymore: someone sitting at a computer, jutting his or her head forward to look more closely at the screen. But this seemingly harmless position compresses the neck and can lead to fatigue, headaches, poor concentration, increased muscle tension and even injury to the vertebrae over time. It can even limit the ability to turn your head.

The Courtship
Bringing all the covenant imagery to life in Jesus Christ.
(NOTE: This is part 3 on this subject. The last article in this series was published on 04/30/2019)

Revelation 21:9
“And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.”

Sometimes you find an immature bird that has fallen out of the nest, which can happen in the spring when the birds are old enough to move around in the nest but too young to fly. Their flopping about sometimes puts them on the ground and in serious trouble. So what to do?

Mincey’s Musings
Year Two, Week Eighteen

One has to be careful when typing or texting, especially when texting. Sometimes the auto-correct on Facebook can get a person in trouble, like the preacher who once texted me that he was sitting on his deck; unfortunately, auto-correct changed the vowel in the word “deck”. The message that came to me, though totally unintended, was hilarious, and provided my soon-to-be-deceased stepson one of his last moments of hilarity. I never told the preacher of his mishap.