Smoke Signals and other news
Until this week, I have never had to have a tire repaired in Holly Springs. This past week, I had a low tire warning twice. The first time I went to the Tire Center of Holly Springs. Two young men were eating lunch but jumped up immediately to see how they could help me. They were professional, and efficient. They removed the tire and showed me the guilty screw. It was quickly plugged and put back on the truck. “Ethan” even took my payment inside and brought back the receipt. I never left the truck. I didn’t get the other employee’s name, but both were great.
Then, on Saturday, as I neared Holly Springs, the low tire light came on again for the same tire. I returned to the Tire Center to find they had closed an hour before I arrived. I’m unfamiliar with tire centers in and around Holly Springs, but a sweet young lady helping with my husband at Holly Springs Rehab suggested another, Discount Tires. Indeed, they were open. The tire was removed, and I was immediately shown the two nails within an inch of each other in the same tire. It was quickly repaired and put back on the truck. The payment was taken at the truck, and once again, I never got out.
The customer service was excellent, speedy, and courteous. Neither of these businesses could have known that my knee was in very bad shape and walking on it was a struggle. Maybe they were just being nice to an “old woman,” but I think this is the service given to all their customers.
Sunday was Grandparents Day and many had the opportunity to attend school or church with their grandchildren. The room is filled with excitement as each grandchild waits for their grandparents to enter their classroom to share this special day. I have attended several such events. I have stood in for grandparents who could not participate so a child would have someone to be there. Treasure these events. Time passes so quickly that they will be graduating before you know it.
Fuller Street Playground has a new fence around it to help keep the children safe. Emma Schooler and Lisa Baxter added some wonderful colors to the playground.
Drive by and admire the handiwork of Chandlers Lawn Service installation of a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape at the Old School Commons.
Car shopping is exhausting, especially when your knee screams in pain with every step. I think my son has taken me three times this week. We have narrowed down the choices of makes and models. Now, to find “the one”. Although I enjoy driving my truck, it is difficult for me and almost impossible for my husband to climb into it. I have to get something not so tall and a bit easier to park since I now do the driving.
The Ruth B. French Library is hosting a Patron Appreciation Event on Thursday, September 14 and 28, from 3:30 p.m. To 5 p.m. With a Family Friendly movie and snacks.
More for your history lesson.
This event was important to Byhalia because General Ulysses Grant decided to send out all his wagons to collect food and supplies from the local population to replenish his supplies and make the local population pay for their glee. Much to Grant’s surprise, the wagons returned loaded with hams, tons of fresh vegetables, beef herds, and plenty of fowls for every taste. This was Grant’s first lesson in supplementing his supplies from the local citizenry and a practice that became quite common for both armies’ duration of the war. In Florence McRaven’s book “Swift Current”, she wrote of her grandmother, who lived near Byhalia, telling how “the Yankees would swarm over their place, take all the food from the smokehouse and cellar, shoot the chickens, calves and hogs and leave them where they fell.” This family, like others, learned to cope with this style of warfare and inhumanity as usually “there would be a grapevine message that the Yanks are coming and holes would be dug to bury the food and camouflage the spots with brush piles. Horses and cows would be tied in a thicket of undergrowth far from the beaten path.
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