Cherokee Day at the Cherokee Home for Children is Saturday.  Everyone is invited to come out and tour the facilities and have a BBQ lunch with the children and staff.  You can come as early as 9:00am.

The strangest things happen in Cherokee-  most of which have to do with heavy metal.  Not the music mind you, but 'heavy' metal!  Last year someone called and asked if they could have some tin for a roof and that the tin I had at the barn was exactly what was needed.  Well, since there were several stacks of tin in the barn and I didn't need all of it I told them they could have some.  You can imagine my dismay when I walked out the door and realized that the tin that was needed was on my barn roof and half of it had been removed!  Well, the tin on my barn roof was replaced in a timely manner and all is well.  Then, a few weeks ago I received a call about a 'community project' and I was asked about having some of the old appliances hauled off.  Recalling the barn roof incident, my initial answer was no, but when asked specifically about an old non working washer or dryer I agreed that those could be hauled off and when asked if there was anything further I specified that there were a few things on the East side of the house just outside the door like a couple of non-working vacuums, and typewriter or two.  Imagine my dismay when I learned that my BBQ grill (which we and our guests use regularly) was gone along with two wood stoves and a round pen consisting of 13 panels which I have had on loan for the past 12 years, belonging to my father!  Beyond those things the house had been accessed, a door pushed in the wrong way, knocked off it's hinges which are now bent at a 45 degree angle and the storage shed door was knocked in.  I've been a home/property owner more years than I was ever married and in all those years, I've just never experienced anything like this.  Anyway, if anyone calls you about hauling off your appliances, beware, it might be more than you specify that gets hauled off.  

Jeff Cockrum Jr had a successful fishing expedition this past weekend.  He hauled out a good sized catfish and he was grateful that mom happened to have the camera along so he could share pictures with his friends as well as his fish stories.

Clarece Lively is in Seton Hospital recovering from a stroke.  She is certainly missed in Cherokee.  Susan Magill had emergency surgery in Florida last Saturday afternoon.  Hopefully she will be feeling better and home soon.  

Funeral services were held last Tuesday at the Church of Christ for Geraldine Thompson Gray.  Geraldine had been living in Amarillo near Jamie and his family.  We extend our sympathy to the family.  

Until next week, that's the news from Cherokee, Texas.