Ryder News for Sept. 10, 2020
Visiting
with Doris Ann Zieman over the Labor Day weekend were Marcus and
Melanie Smith from Maryville, TN and Codi Smith from Nashville. On
Monday afternoon, Doris Ann, Melanie and Codi stopped by for a short
visit and a look around the old home place here before it is torn down.
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| Broken tree limb at the playground. |
Wow,
we had lots of wind and wind gusts on Tuesday, Sept 2nd and there are
quite a few tree limbs broken and branches and leaves on the ground
around town. I swear that one gust was at least 50 mph as dirt was
blowing and then it was sprinkling rain so my windows on the north side
of the house got rather muddy looking. A large tree limb was broken on a
tree at the playground. There was also a tree blown over north of Gary
Hagen’s house and it hit one of the utility trucks that was parked along
the street. September seems to be starting out as a windy month. Wonder
if the old Farmers Almanac says anything about windy months and what
they mean or if there are any Old Wives Tales about it!
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| Fallen tree on utility truck by the Gary Hagen home. |
It
sounds like we are going to get hit with freezing temperatures tonight
(Monday). Sure am glad that I don’t have any flowers this year or a
garden. I remember all the fun (?) it was to have to drag rugs and
blankets out to cover everything up.
RTC
is installing fiber optic cable around town and some streets and alleys
are blocked off with all the equipment working. The other day it seemed
that every street that I tried to go down was blocked by these machines
working and digging holes or filling in the holes they had dug and
burying the cable, etc.
We
should let the people responsible for getting the Ryder Rosehill
Cemetery prepared for the two burials there on Saturday Aug. 29th know
how much they are appreciated. They leveled the areas where trees and
shrubs had been removed, mowed and trimmed. It looked very nice for the
Hagen and Cunningham families.
The
Ryder museum now has display cases mounted in the church area for each
of Ryder's past and present churches. They need help finding pictures
and items to display from each church. Please contact John Warner if
you have such items and would like to donate them. Thanks, John, for
getting them up.
Staci,
John and Johnny were out here on Saturday so John could install some
outside lights on my garage and get the outlets put up for my garage
doors. He got the holes cut for the lights and the boxes in but realized
he didn’t have all stuff that he needed to get them finished. At least
he got the outlets put up for the garage doors. This is all slowly
coming together but I am beginning to wonder if I am going to get moved
into my new home before the snow flies. The crew is busy working on my
home today to get all the outside work done and then when they leave,
the next crew comes in to finish up the interior. After that is done, I
still have to have the rooms painted. Wow, still lots of stuff to do!
Upcoming Events:
Sept. 13...10:30
a.m. Ryder’s Calvary church will continue to hold Parking Lot Drive-In
Church services at 10:30 every Sunday morning until further notice. Tune
to 107.5 on your FM radio station to listen to the service.
Sept. 13...9 a.m. Worship Service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti.
Sept.13...10:30 a.m. Worship Service at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder.
Sept. 16...7 p.m. Bridal shower for Trina Howell at the Makoti Senior Center. Trina is the Fiancée of Caleb Karna.
