Hello from our home to your home, Carol Carson came on Tuesday afternoon to have our Bible Study at 3:15, but many ladies were getting a manicure with Whitney Pollard from Three Rivers Hospice, so our starting time was delayed a while and then when we got started it was…
Hello from our home to your home. This month has simply flown by with snow storm and 80 degree weather, but Spring is definitely here. Our shrubs are beautiful with new growth and some are blooming. I rolled out into the shade of the trees and it really took some…
Hello from our home to your home. It is such a lovely day, absolutely perfect with a slight breeze. I just returned from a journey outside. I managed to visit the fish pond and spend a while under the shade of one of our Bradford pear trees with the breeze…
Hello from our home to your home, it has been a busy week around our home getting ready for the annual Easter Egg Hunt for Ava Head Start and the Ava Elememtary Kindergarten classes. The Easter Bunny is scheduled to appear on March 27th at 11:00, we all look forward…
Hello from our home to your home. Oh, my, the weather has been wonderful for a few days! It is as if Spring were already here. Today is Sunday and it is raining and that too is like spring. Saturday morning Mrs. Norma Stillings was here playing the piano and…
Hello from our home to your home, the weather keeps amazing us with its turns- rotating from hot to cold over night. We played Pokenno Saturday afternoon. Anna asked me to call Pokenno. She and Danny wanted to play, so we had it announced over the inter-com and we had…
Hello from our home to your home, we have missed much of the snow that fell on north Missouri, but we have certainly felt the cold breeze blowing. Spring is just around the corner so we can anticipate a change in the foliage. I love to watch the foliage over…
Hello from our home to your home. We were anticipating the big ice storm that was forecasted and we got it in mostly sleet, but very dangerous. Some of our caregivers stayed here at the home overnight, but some stayed home the next day, so things were quiet around here. …
Hello from our home to your home, we don’t know what to expect from the weather, one day it’s really nice, the next day it’s cold and damp. Just a bright reminder that Spring is just around the corner. Saturday morning Ms. Norma Stillings played the piano and Bro. Tom…
Hello from our home to your home. We had a little skiff of snow, enough to make the ground white and it stayed so cold even in the sunshine that it did not melt all during the day. Then we had some rain and the weather warmed up, but it…
Hello from our home to your home, we stay busy guessing the weather and what our high temp will be, several residents are always in the gardening mode. It’s time to start thinking about planting the flowers, tomatoes and our other vegetables. Tomatoes are the most important, everyone loves the…
Hello from our home to your home, well it seems that spring has sprung-it is supposed to be around 70 degrees today. But don’t trust it because it is to be down into the 30′s and Wednesday with snow flurries. We just haven’t had much rain or snow yet this…
Hello from our home to your home in this January 2013, which we anticipated to be snowy, blowy and bad, but with many days of spring-like temperatures, and I must say, we have been disappointed because we need the moisture to raise the water-table after last summer’s scarcity of rain. …
Hello from our home to your home, it was a very merry holiday season at our home this year and it continues in the new year. Connie Burris our activity director has been on vacation and we have truly missed her around our home. All the trees and decorations are…
Hello from our home to your home, it has been a while since we sent in any news, a lot has happend around our home. We have went from Fall to Christmas in just a matter of days. Everyone has been mentioning to us that there hasn’t been any news…
Hello from our home to your home, it has been a while since we have written any news. We have had our Annual Fall Festival with a large number of family members attending. The music was by The Gospel Strings, The Rod Humbryd Bluegrass Band and Jam Dandy. Everyone enjoyed…
Hello from our home to your home, we are truly enjoying the wonderful fall weather, Tonya had started to decorate the outside of our home for fall. Mums, haybales, pumpkins and corn stalks are just a few of our favorite things to decorate with. We have had several musical groups…
Hello from our home to your home, we are enjoying the beautiful weather around here. Our volunteers are simply awesome around here. Thanks to Norma Stillings and Bro. Tom Hawkins for starting our week off with some wonderful piano music followed by a church service. Charles Anderson and Danny Ousley…
Hello from our home to your home. It has been another busy week around here. On Saturday morning Norma Stillings and Tom Hawkins had a church service in the main lobby. A lot of wonderful piano music followed by a Bible reading with Tom Hawkins. Our home is blessed with…
Hello from our home to your home, this is Thursday evening and it is raining- oh, so nicely! We are praying for a good soaking! We have had a busy day with exercises and activities and our regular volunteer, Ruth Evans, with us and then our Pastor, encourager, Jeff Smith,…
Last Weeks News – Hello from our home to your home. The weather is the biggest concern for everyone, it seems, because it is so dry and everything is about to die. You wouldn’t think it would bother us in the home, but it is really on our minds. We…
Hello from our home to your home. We are very thankful for the rain we received, but are praying for more because this terrible heat has evaporated all the moisture although it did cause the lawn grass to green up some. As I walked outside today a good breeze was…
Hello from our home to your home, we have enjoyed some of the rainy days around here. The weather is so different this summer. We appreciate everyone who has donated fruits and vegetables from their gardens this summer. We have enjoyed them. The Cooking Club peeled apples and made crock-pot…
Hello from our home to your home. Many people have been visiting residents this week. I guess because it is some cooler than usual. We finished the large jigsaw puzzle which we have been working on for at least two months. We got all but the blue sky put together…
Hello from our home to your home, we have been busy around our home getting ready for our 27th Annual 4th of July Celebration. Our Celebration of Independence Day on June 29th was a great success as far as I could tell. I will honestly say it was hot enough. …
Hello from our home to your home. I just wanted to say how proud I was of Friday, Tonya Sue Day during National Nursing Home Week. The big day was Friday when we roasted our administrator, Tonya Cutbirth. She was a really good sport about all of it and carried…
Hello from our home to your home. It was a very busy week for us here at our home. It was National Nursing Home Week and we celebrated in style. Sunday afternoon we started National Nursing Home Week off with a Mother’s Day Tea honoring our mothers. Bro. Tom Hawkins…
Hello from our home to your home, today is May 1st and Resident’s Council Day, the day we all gather with the staff and discuss things we would like to change or to see happen. Our staff officers listen and digest our suggestions and discuss them and the possibilities or…
Hello from our home to your home, April was a very busy month for our home. We have had Easter Egg Hunts, visited with Peter Rabbit, several groups of school children have been here helping get our garden and flower beds in shape for spring planting. Tom Hawkins was really…
Hello from our home to your home. We began our week by celebrating Easter with the children of the community with a big Easter egg hunt on Tuesday morning for Ava Head Start. Ava Jr. High Student Council was here bright and early helping the Easter bunny stuff eggs. While…
Hello from our home to your home, we are saddened by the passing our good friends Billie Leonard and Mrs. Lillian Haskins–two lovely ladies who went home to be with the Lord in a sweet and gentle way. Bro. Haskins testimony to their years together in faith and service was…
Hello from our home to your home, We welcome Bertha Mattijetiz back with us,we hope she enjoys her stay with us. Tom and I had a weeping good time today while dicing up onions for the corn salad, but the salad was good anyway. Ray and Bill were dicing up…
Hello from our home to your home, it is amazing how this weather is holding so warm and spring-like. Usually when we miss real cold weather in January, we have it in February and now. February has passed and with cold, stormy weather. Now, March is sailing past just as…
Hello from our home to your home. We look forward to a spring like day with temperatures up into the sixties and the opportunity to get out and enjoy a van ride this morning. Our van rides are an educational break in our regular routine and we really appreciate those…
