By Janet Siers
304-655-7254
countrymebe@yahoo.com
Well the holidays have come and gone with just plain bad weather. The electric was off here for a week in December with trees falling on the power lines in all the surrounding counties. Rt. 4 in Clay County on the Elk River was a disaster and Walker Creek Road was about the same.
I'm so glad I could get to a friends house on Moore Fork in Clay County to watch TV and take showers and best of all stay warm. When the electric is off I have no water or heat. Now in January we are faced with extreme cold and it's getting ready to snow for days and I wish us all good luck. Right now where my daughter heather lives in the Netty area the snow is so high that it's over Lea's head. She just hated it but Ruby loved it. They have plenty of wood and their electric never went off. They were just housebound and they are all OK. Ben and Heather have a wood furnace outside and she told me that the smoke was falling. A sure sign of bad weather as told by generations of long ago.
Deer season is over now. Buddy Watkins and I drove all over looking for deer. Wonder how those things know when they're in season? Everyone is out in the woods and it's hard to tell where they go. Buddy shot one in the neck on Two Lick. I've seen animals die and both of us knew in our hearts that it was dying. We had to drive a short way to Minnora and when we came back to get it the poor thing was gone. Who knows? I hope that someone got it. There is a deer laying at the mouth of Walker Creek someone killed and gutted, however didn't take the antlers or any meat. It's just lying there. Thankful it's cold weather, it's probably so frozen nothing can eat it.
Ken and Barbra Mace came down for haircuts and we had a nice visit. Barbra has had the Swine Flu. She was hopelessly sick for a month with a 102 temperature. She was unable to do anything and it took another month just to get to the point where she could get down here. She always feels better when she gets a hair cut. She's a pretty lady. We talked about all the old-timers here in the county. Her granddaughters and their children were here for
haircuts. These are really nice people.
Blaine King tells me his son Kenny is better now after he suffered from being in a bad wreck. Blaine is still taking care of the Chenoweth place on Nicut. Someone had broke out a wing window in his truck. All the cats jumped up on the hood and climbed in together in the seat. I told Blaine that they must have preferred the closeness in this cold weather rather than staying in the big barn. Sure glad I don't live in Cleveland.
Times are hard for me right now and I'm sorry I've let everyone down but will make it a point to communicate with you. I love you all.
Have a wonderful week!
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