THE CROW’S
NEST-----------September 19, 2009
SUMMER HAS ARRIVED IN
EDINBURG!!!!!! Wow, we are
experiencing absolutely
beautiful, warm weather. I
can almost watch my tomatoes
ripen. The temperatures
have been in the 80’s during
the day and in the high 50’s
at night. What more could
we ask for? I guess we
waited long enough for warm
summer weather. The
forecast is for it to
continue in to the
weekend. LOVE IT!!!
I mentioned to Chuck the
other day that we have had
very few grain trucks go by
the house. Usually at this
time of the year farmers are
busily hauling their grain
to the elevators. Not so
this year. I visited with
Dave Ramsey (the manager of
the elevator in town) the
other day and he said
harvest has really been
slow-----and late!! To the
west of us there were lots
of fields that never even
got planted last spring. I
know my cousin Allen Sorbo
had fields he never could
get into to plant.
All the kids are back in
school. Changes are coming
to many schools in the
area. Consolidations will
most likely have to take
place as student numbers
dwindle. It makes me sad as
truly there is no better
place to live than in a
small community such as
Edinburg. Edinburg no
longer has a football
program. Two Edinburg
students, Jeremy Ulvog and
Tyson Holm are playing with
the Park River-Fordville-Lankin
team. In fact, I read in
the Walsh County Record that
Jeremy was quarterback for
their game last week.
Students have to travel far
and wide now to play
sports. This still is a
great place to live.
This past Wednesday we had
our annual Turkey Supper at
Trinity Lutheran Church. We
served somewhere in the
vicinity of 480 people.
That number of people coming
to eat warms the hearts of
all of us who prepare the
food. It makes us happy to
think that everyone enjoys
“our” turkey supper!!! It
is amazing as people come
from a 30 – 40 mile radius
just to enjoy a turkey
supper with all the
trimmings. It takes a lot
of HARD WORK and LONG HOURS
to make this happen. There
are so few of us and each
year we are getting older!!
In the end everyone pulls
together and helps make this
a huge success.
I am so thankful for those
that spend long hours
getting everything
prepared. I want to
acknowledge Ruth Hall, (my
sister), Dorothy Hall, Katie
Hall and husband Chuck for
many, many hours of work put
into the preparation. There
are so many that truly help
out in every way. I do not
want to start naming
everyone who helped as I
will leave someone
out---just suffice to say it
“takes a church family” to
make this a success. I
write as if I was chairman
of the supper. I AM NOT,
but I am a person who keeps
notes and makes lists of
everything. By virtue of
these habits I kind of fall
in to the “take charge”
category.
O yes, WE ALL are in
anticipation of the birth of
Katie and TJ Hall’s baby. I
thought after all the work
Katie did for the turkey
supper she would surely go
in to labor! Each day we
decide if she has “dropped”
at all. This is just not
Katie and TJ’s baby; this is
“Edinburg’s baby”!!!!!!!!!
Katie is due in just a few
days. Katie, you are dearly
loved by everyone!
Cheryl and Glenna (Lee) have
be here visiting with their
mom, Julia. It has been fun
to see them walking around
town in the morning and to
visit with them.
Mary Burkett and Delores
Geir’s sister, Dorothy Plett
is here visiting. She lives
in the Phoenix, Arizona
area. I watch Mary, Delores
and Dorothy walk Mary’s dog,
Sally around town. I know
they are having a great
time. Mary says she has one
more sister that is also
coming to visit so we have
to watch out when all FOUR
are in Edinburg.
Chuck and I are celebrating
our 45th wedding
anniversary today. It seems
like only yesterday I was
walking down the aisle at
Odalen. What a wonderful
life we have experienced
even with the separations of
Chuck’s 3 tours in Viet Nam
as a pilot. We have 3
wonderful children and 6
fantastic grand children.
What more could one want!
Hope all is well with
everyone and we will most
definitely talk later.
I
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