Tecumseh news: May 10, 2017
<p class="p1">As travelers drove over the highways Sunday there were many signs of spring with blooming trees, including service berries, dogwood and others that are especially beautiful, besides the yards where special species are sometimes on display.</p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">New life comes out at springtime. Birds are busy preparing their nests, and in some, eggs are already in the process of hatching cute little birds. I have a martin box out here, and a couple of the martins have really been busy. I’m looking forward to having them here this summer. I’m told they eat mosquitoes. Of course, there are always predators like larger birds and snakes that try to interfere.</span></p><p class="p1">I enjoyed Sunday’s visit at the home of my son Marlyn and Charlene Pitcock’s in Forsyth. Once again we had five generations present. There was also lots of good food to enjoy and lots of visiting. As we drove over the lake and the flooded areas we saw the overflowing areas. Surely a lot soaked into the ground for summer. </p><p class="p1">As we crossed the Theodosia bridge, it brought memories of when the piers for the bridge were being poured with concrete deep into the earth by Gillozz Construction Company, who employed my late husband, Eldon Pitcock, in the late 1940s and early 1950s on their concrete work. Arising at 4 a.m. many days, he and other workers drove the distance and worked long hours, getting home at dark. Union wages then were a small portion of what union wages are nowadays, although it was a government job. We would drive over there on Sunday afternoons to see the bridge piers. Eldon liked to take his family to see the progress they had made the week prior. The structure has withstood rising waters all these years. </p><p class="p1">My granddaughter Kindra Vega is home in Forsyth for a time on a break from her work with repossessed homes. Her company sends her all over the United States taking care of the repossessed homes. </p><p class="p1">Karen Davis took her daughter Lisa Keller for a doctor’s appointment on Monday. </p><p class="p1">Hummingbirds are arriving for summer from Mexico and the deep south although the weather isn’t too suitable as yet. We enjoy the little hummers but don’t get close to them as their bills are too sharp! We were sitting on the porch swing recently, and they were diving at me because I was wearing red. </p><p class="p1">Marcia Lyon had a doctor’s appointment and tests Monday at Mountain Home. We wish her better health.</p><p class="p1">A warning is to watch out for snakes as they come out of their cover since the grounds are flooded badly. I have read that even little newborn copperheads bite and are poisonous. When I was selling fish bait years ago, I started rubber gloves to handle my red worms because I inadvertently picked up some little copperheads with the worms. I had ordered a large carton of the red worms from Minnesota, and enclosed with the worms were some of the little snakes. True story!</p><p class="p1">In past years, April 22 was celebrated with my mother’s birthday as we attended both Lilly Ridge and the Gainesville Christian Church. I have a picture taken in the backyard of our house in Lilly Ridge. The Christian Church and Lilly Ridge congregations came out and celebrated my mother’s last birthday in April before she passed away later that year on Dec. 4, 1935. Mother had taught school all over the area, so she knew many people. Daddy fixed sawhorses with boards and tablecloths, and we had a big dinner in our yard under the pear tree in honor of her 51st birthday. </p><p class="p1">Kris Luebbert, Alexus Owens and I helped celebrate McKayla Braden’s 23rd birthday Sunday at Marlyn Pitcock’s. She had a beautiful birthday cake and some gifts. McKayla had decorated her own cake as that is her job at the Hollister Country Mart.</p><p class="p1">As news is scarce this week, I will say hello to cousins and friends who read our items. </p>
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