Quilters host Friday Night Pajama Party

With the persistence of our oldest quilter, Hazel Holt, we followed through with one of our conversations while quilting on every Wednesday! On Friday, October 24th, the Turner Community Quilting Club ladies pieced together an evening of fun and fellowship with quilting, baking and a thimble of work! All had such a great time we are thinking about having one in the summer of 2009! Most of the ladies are seasoned quilters with one raw edge in the block-Charlotte. This was only her third time to quilt! In all there were ten ladies framing out the evening ranging in age 48-almost 88: Hazel Holt, Doris Riggs, Willie Ruth Jones, Ina Daily, Loretta Holt, Mildred Sims, Jeanette Gibbs, Marilyn Marshall, Arlene Riggs, and Charlotte Holt. Unfortunately, Doris and Arlene Riggs and Willie Ruth Jones were unable to spend the night.

They said it couldn’t be done! (some scoffers) But it was!! Your just stitchin’ in the ditch if you think these ladies don’t have what it takes to stay up most of the night and sleep in a bed roll on the cold floor of the community building. Friday night at about 7:30 pm, the ladies ate supper together, some ate Hazel’s homemade chicken noodle soup while others ate what they brought and some ate before they came. Jeanette brought an interesting dish-bacon wrapped jalapeno’s stuffed with cream cheese (without the seeds) hoppin’ hot and yummy!

Our Loretta turned 71 and we helped her celebrate it with a strawberry cake made by Mildred and presents too! Loretta brought fixins to make her famous cinnamon rolls and some that wasn’t staying overnight asked if Loretta could bake them so they could enjoy the rolls before returning home--sooooo being the good egg she is, Loretta baked the rolls that night! When the cake had been cut and presents opened and the cinnamon rolls sampled, we went back to quilting, and all the while we noticed the heating unit didn’t seem to be doing any good, our noses were getting colder by the minute. By now it was 11 pm. We were bound and determined to stay. Hazel suggested to Marilyn to go to her house and get the space heater she had and Willie Ruth said she had one also. After Marilyn fetched the heaters and got them going it seemed to take the chill out of the room. Another pot of coffee brewed, sewing needles threaded and flying in and out of the quilts being worked on the ladies were diligently trying to finish one before going to sleep! And they did!! Another quilt framed and ready to start on, it had been a productive evening. Making our beds and getting in them was no small feet. As a matter of fact, some one of us even faced de-feet bent over trying to get into bed!! Some crazy noises were being made by most all the ladies during the night, I think it is called snoring or something like that!ha!

On Saturday morning, we woke up with sunlight streaming in the windows. We had smiles on our faces-yes, we did it, we had made it through, now if we could just get up? How? Roll over and crawl to a chair and push up or sit up and yell “I need the bathroom now, help pull me up” ha! After all the RFD is just next door!! Breakfast was great: biscuits, gravy, bacon, eggs, hash browns, juice and coffee, and more cinnamon rolls. The best part for me was when we held hands in a circle in the kitchen and prayed, thanking God for friends and family, celebrating another birthday, good food, and fellowship. These quilters love their hobby and when it becomes a job, it wouldn’t be fun anymore. An elderly woman once told her teenage granddaughter-pick a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES YOU DID IT! You went where none of you had been in a real long stitch of a time and slept overnight in your jammies on a bed-roll.

Remember: A day hemmed in prayer never unravels!

Bringin' the Fixin's

Several ladies have stated they would like to be involved in furnishing a dish when we have an event at the community building if they knew what to bring. The November Pie Supper and Christmas Program are about the only times we don’t have to have volunteers for food. Except pies for the Pie Supper and/or decorated cookies or candy for the Christmas Program. This year the EHC has volunteered to help with refreshments so we should be in for a real treat since the theme is “An Old Fashioned Christmas”, hopefully with some of the toys and games you found under the tree when you were young. We certainly invite you to the program which Luann and the 4-H kids do so well each year, then stay for the refreshments. We may even have a visit from our favorite friend at Christmas--Santa Claus himself.

Whitley Township

This is the township wherein Turner community is located. The township was established between 1880 and 1890. It consists of a land area of 27 square miles and a population of 1109. Churches in Whitley Township are Revis Hill Assembly of God and Ozark Chapel. The reservoir is Donnahue Lake with creeks being those of Rock Creek, Sherman Creeks and the Little Mulberry Creek. People have been voting at the Graphic Community Building for years but the new polling place is at the Sheriff's Youth Ranch 2.5 miles southeast of the Graphic Store.

Thanks

Thanks to Travis Steel and Don Wilkinson. We now have plenty of boards for our signs for posting Turner events. If you would like to take on the sign job, just let us know. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks once again to Darrell Mirus for a beautiful lawn-mowing job. The grounds looked fantastic.