Thanks again to my author friend Jared Jackson for his hard work in rounding up all the fun things we can celebrate in November.
This month, have some fun with friends observing the important and unusual in November. Looks to me like November is geared to readers, writers and giving thanks, and I am all about that. Not sure I care for Fibonacci Day on November 23. (I hate math.) Anyway, enjoy!
The month of November has all this. Who knew?
•  National Novel Writing Month
•  Family Stories Month
•  Military Family Appreciation Month

Luttrell Elementary School would like to recognize some outstanding students and their achievements during the first nine weeks of school this year.
Perfect Attendance:
Mrs. Stephany's Pre-K class - Beau Lawson, Caiden Blankenship, Hayden Cooke, Nathaniel Tharp, Phoenix Scarbrough, Gage Tallent, James Naylor, Keela Kiser, Brooklyn Canada
Mrs. Sarah's Kindergarten class - CJ Bougard Jr., Dee Braden, Brooklyn Mingie
Mrs. April's Kindergarten Class - Kenzlei Lawson Vanessa Miller

Union County veterans and families should be proud of the newly refurbished Veteran’s Memorial Wall located at Wilson Park. Beginning early summer 2019, changes went underway. Meeting the goal of completion for fall 2019, the wall is now complete with beautiful updates.

The front of Tennessee school registers in the 1940s had the following note on the bottom of the front cover:

NOTE: This register is the property of the State of Tennessee. Each classroom teacher must keep the Register neatly and accurately according to instructions, completely fill in all data, and return the Register at the close of the school term to the office of the principal or county superintendent to be filed before the teacher’s salary for the last month can be drawn. It becomes an important official record for the school. PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.

Joints are designed to withstand the loads placed on them and provide a full range of motion. Each joint is made up of at least two surfaces that touch each other and allow for movement. These include ball-and-socket joints such as the hip; hinge joints such as the knee and elbow; and gliding joints, such as those in the spine. The bones that make up the joint allow movement, but it is the muscles that pull the bones that produce the movement. Muscles are attached to bones by structures called tendons.

When Mom and I pulled into my driveway, I knew something strange was happening. My daughter Sara was standing in front of my garage door and she was yelling at something and stomping her feet.

Unfortunately for me, I had already pushed the button to raise the garage door. I was riding with my mom and had the door remote with me.

“You shouldn’t have opened the door! I was trying to keep it from getting into the garage,” Sara yelled as I stepped out of mom’s van.

When my husband returned home from the Navy at the end of World War ll in 1945, jobs were easy to find. No experience was necessary for most of them. The first job this farm boy found was in a nearby factory machining automobile crankshafts for the Detroit car companies. He was still working there when I met him in 1947. With no experience as a machinist, he was soon looking for another job. Machinist training would have been an excellent use of his GI Bill, but that was not to be.

With a nod to the season of Halloween, I would like to share a tale about something that has creeped people out for centuries. A superstition that came across with settlers from Europe and established itself here in the eastern U.S. It involves death and a bug.

When my dad was stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War, the rest of us lived in the Oklahoma City suburb of Warr Acres. It wasn’t far from where my grandparents lived.
Living in Oklahoma had me looking over my shoulder every time a storm came through. I had seen The Wizard of Oz every year on television, so I knew about tornadoes, right? Funny thing was, in that year there was only one time when a weatherman said there might be a tornado. Never saw one, and never saw a witch on a bicycle, for which I was duly thankful.

This is an easy recipe to fix the day before grocery shopping day. This is, if you still have some potatoes in the bin and sausage in the freezer.