Brevort
By Lois Movalson 292-5581

Don't you just love the seed catalogs that show up in your mailbox? One can spend some quality time planning a vegetable plot or some flowers around your house.

Betty Giordani remarked it was very quiet in the woods surrounding her and Gio's home on Worth Road, but she was looking forward to spring and maple syrup time. The days are getting longer. Yea!

Dave and I drove to Neenah, Wisconsin, to visit Tracy Movalson last week. It was bitterly cold, but who needed to go out? One afternoon the wind chill was only about eight degrees below zero, so we ventured to a mall close by for a little shopping.

Friday night was basketball in Newberry. Rick Weber and Sonny and Mary Weiss rode with Dave and I to enjoy the game. Our Saints won, but not without a good battle. Congratulations to the team.

Dr. Robert "Rocky" Young left a message on our answering machine while we were in Wisconsin, wanting to know about classmates and friends Lee Foster and Melissa Foster. Thora Shepard has contacted him this week with news of Lee and Melissa. Lee is still at a resort south of the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. They don't have the snow amounts there that they expect every winter. The clientele is able to ice fish, and some dog sledding is going on, but not so much cross-country skiing. Lee has to go 43 miles to make a cell phone call. There is no television at the lodge so there's lots of reading and DVDs being traded back and forth. Melissa Foster and Pattie Truman are in Athens, Ohio, checking out the housing situation as they will be moving to Ohio in the spring; Pattie will be enrolled in medical school.

Ken and Sharon Smith attended a volleyball tournament in Boyne City Saturday. Their granddaughter is a member of the team.

Wednesday lunches are ongoing at the Trinity Lutheran Church fellowship hall in Brevort, under the able direction of Pega Kennedy and crew.

Joe Chalmers called this morning from sunny Florida. He and Sharon are enjoying their house, and Joe is setting up at local flea markets. He says there is a "pecking order" as to where you set up, and he is usually on the grass, a nottoo favorable spot, but he will persevere. He's that kind of guy.

Dave and I called on Bob Flora Sunday afternoon with homemade soup in hand. He still has renovating going on. He has a north-facing bedroom that is a lovely shade of red, and another bedroom, a soothing sage green. He has an eye for color.

Dot Glashaw has been in St. Louis visiting her daughter and sonin law, Theresa and Derrick Jewel and family. She then went to Lowell to visit an old friend for a week.

Jerri Rose, Shari Baron, and Dot Glashaw all attended the Red Hat meeting Saturday at the home of Linda Wilkins. Topic of discussion was the upcoming convention in St. Ignace this summer.

Tom and Joyce Gustafson, Pega and John Kennedy, Gayle and Charlie Lamoreaux, and Sharon and Ken Smith enjoyed a Valentine's dinner out Saturday evening.

Joyce Gustafson and Gayle Lamoreaux will be joining 43 other health workers on a trip in March and April. Doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and many others with medical training will be a part of a group under the auspices of Ste. Anne's Church on Mackinac Island.

Get well wishes to Bruce Dodson, who underwent heart surgery last week.

Condolences to the family of June Cotton, who passed away Friday, February 2.

Happy birthday to Lucy Evashevski February 11, Pastor Tari Stage-Harvey February 13, Pega Kennedy February 19, and Jean Bentley February 23.

Happy Valentine's Day to all. Chocolate and flowers rule the day.