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Fenol, Jr., M.D. Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Creature war HOLIDAYS THIS WEEK June 7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day June 8 Best Friends Day June 9 Donald Duck Day June 10 Iced Tea Day June 11 National Corn on the Cob Day June 12 Red Rose Day June 13 Sewing Machine Day Source: HolidayInsights.com Pike County Personals by Judy True BIRTHDAYS May 30 – Payton Wright turned 16 May 31 – Rebecca Parker June 1 – Benjamin H. Belling June 2 – Jane Garber June 7 – Inez King; Gordon Drew turns 78 June 8 - Kamber Wright June 11 – Wanda Rowland June 13 – Mitch Breidenbaugh; Ken- ny Hurst turns 47 June 16 – Cliff Vinson ANNIVERSARIES Junior and Janie Arnold celebrat- ed their 63rd wedding anniversary on May 23. Gordon and Patty Drew celebrat- ed their 58th wedding anniversary on June 6. Damon and Angie Pugh celebrate 30th wedding anniversary on June 15. MT. OLYMPUS ALUMNI BANQUET JUNE 17 Mt. Olympus alumni banquet will be June 17 with a social hour at 4 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m. catered by Schnitzel- bank Restaurant of Jasper. The cost is $14 for the meal with a reservation, or $15 at the door. Checks with the grad- uation year on them can be sent to: Mt. Olympus Alumni, P.O. Box 236, Princ- eton, IN 47670. For more information, call Patty Craig at 812-385 -8228 or 812- 779 -7409. RUTH'S NEWS Todd and Audrey Morrison and Deb- bie Alexander visited with Ruth Morri- son on Saturday. Lucy McKannan took Ruth to get her hair done before enjoying lunch together on Friday. Alan and Tina Barrett visited with Ruth on Sunday afternoon. On Memorial Day, the Morrisons had a day together with 31 in atten- dance. Those attending were: Ron- nie, Patty, Tylar, Noah, Lilly, Sophie, Todd, Audrey and Ruth Morrison; Lu- cy McKannan; Karla Schroeder; Olivia and Marleigh Wright; Damon and An- gie Pugh; Debbie, James, JoAnn, Jax- on, John, Krystal and Jacob Alexan- der; Paige Barrow; J.T, Tonya, Kaidyn, GraceLynn and Dawsyn Krieg, Netah Roberts; Freida Mason; Alex Strick- land; and Aaron Morrison. Everyone enjoyed the great fellowship together held at Todd and Audrey's Hart Street home. Todd, Ronnie, Patty and Tylar Morri- son, and Tina Barrett visited on Tues- day evening. WEEKLY TIDBITS On Sunday, Charlie and Betty Jo Wright went to morning and evening worship services at Bunker Hill Bap- tist Church in Vincennes. On Friday, Luella White went to her daughter Sharon Williams' home to get her hair done. A fter that they went to Bob Evans and met Luella's other daughter Nina Holderbaugh for lunch. Maggie True Armstrong and Trac- ey Berthiuame went to Fairview Or- chard in Mt. Vernon to pick cherries at their U-Pick. Dessi Waple and two friends went to the movies on Saturday afternoon to watch Wonder Woman. Donna Corn Horrall went to Pig, Ky., for a week of food and bluegrass music with friends from across the US. Sun- day evening is girls' night out for Don- na and her local friends. She's keeping busy making quilts. Sue Ellen Barton reported the death of Betty Belcher Johnson, a 1944 Mt. Olympus High School graduate. Bette Coomer has returned home af- ter a stay in the hospital and rehab cen- ter. She's improving and happy to be home with her husband, Joe. Leon and Alice Whittington went to Curt and Debbie Cain's home on Sun- day for the preschool graduation party for Gavin Rothemeyer. Others attend- ing were Betty Cain, Margie Shouse and Beverly Belcher. Alice and Leon Whittington went to the funeral visitation for Jeff Ford on Tuesday at Colvin Funeral Home in Princeton. A fterwards, the Whit- tingtons stopped in to visit with Liz Thompson. Rita McGuyer attended the visita- tion on Tuesday for Jeff Ford at Col- vin Funeral Home. On Wednesday, Ri- ta had lunch with her daughter Tish in Vincennes. On Thursday, she had lunch with Carrie and her sister Fran at a local restaurant. Last week, Rita McGuyer welcomed a new great-great-grandson, Bander Styick. Betty Cain enjoyed having her sis- ter Margie Shouse spend the weekend with her recently. Beulah White hosted a cookout at her home on Memorial Day for her en- tire family. On Thursday, Maggie True Arm- strong and Tracey Berthiaume drove to Indianapolis for the weekend. The girls spent the weekend shopping, ex- ploring the area, swimming and plan on returning home early next week. Susan Dick of Kentucky called her sister-in-law Betty Jo Wright to check in on Betty's husband Charlie. Monday morning visitors of Jim and Inez King were their daughter Judy El- ber with Caleb and Sarah who visited in honor of Jim's birthday. On Thursday, Jim King went to Evansville for a doctor's appointment and was released from doctor's care. He's improving and feeling better. Denver and Marylee Sullivan went to Vincennes on Friday to do some shopping. Denny, Diane and Colt Hadley took Walt and Marcella Robb out to dinner at a restaurant in Princeton after at- tending the visitation for their friend Jeff Ford at Colvin Funeral Home. Margie Wheeler enjoyed company on Memorial Day with her two sons, Bill and Bob Sloan, her daughter, Judy, and her husband, Danny Robb. Margie cooked a delicious meal for everyone. Janie Arnold was a hospital patient recently. Sharon Rumble enjoyed a visitor from Katie Jo Rumble, of Washington, on Wednesday. Steve and Patty Sherman, and Sha- ron Rumble decorated graves last week at the local cemeteries. Adam Peil visited with his grandfa- ther, Dale Beadles, on Thursday and Friday. Dessi Waple worked a half day on Saturday helping out a few friends be- fore treating herself to a pedicure. Michael Salm had lunch with friends at Mission BBQ. Tylan Waple is visiting his Aunt Li- sa Flint in New Orleans, La. SUBMIT YOUR NEWS If you'd like to see your news and events in the Personal's Column, call Judy at 812-354-6502 or email your notes to pikepersonals@wildblue.net. My mailing address is 7438 W. State Rd. 56, Hazleton, IN 47640. We'd love to hear from you and share your hap- penings. In April, I wrote about a creature in our house. It's now creatures, plural – creatures so fast that I have been un- able to identify them. There have been many guesses as to what they are – mice, moles, voles, alien life-forms, a wolf spider carrying her babies on her back. Look that last one up if you are looking for something to haunt your dreams. On second thought, don't. They live in my walls, in my vents, in my cupboards. They are only ever seen as a flash out of the corner of my eye. Half the time, I can't be sure I have not just seen a shadow in the night – a shadow that, if indeed an alien life- form, sucks out the memories from my brain when I sleep. I tried to be kumbaya about the crea- tures. This was their house first, I tell myself. This is their wild, and we are trespassers in it. And isn't this why we moved into the wild – for the nature, even if it's nondescript vermin-infested nature? And with a house so shoddily made, the only way to plug all the holes would be to knock it to the ground and start fresh. So I tried to embrace the creatures. But rather than appreciate my hos- pitality, they invited their cousin and in-laws to move in. We went from one quirky friend to a carnival of crea- ture chaos practically overnight. Try- ing to embrace my inner tree-hugger, I reached out to the local quinoa-eat- ing, chia seed-drinking, yoga-loving community and asked whether any- one knew of a local pied piper – some- one who could rock sweet lullabies on a recorder and seduce the aliens, monsters, mice and spiders alike out of my home and back into the woods. The nature-lov- ing community laughed and told me to get Termi- nix. Or a cat. One person even has a cat named Psy- cho Killer – actual name – and offered to let me bor- row it for the weekend. I re- sisted – mostly because I'm more terrified a cat named Psycho Killer would take me out in the middle of the night just as eagerly as it would a vole. So once again, I tried to make peace with the creatures in my home. They weren't really hurting anyone. May- be they were actually part of a secret alliance, defending the home against evil spirits and robbers who are afraid of mice – you know, such as burglar- izing elephants. It could happen. But you'll never see rogue pachyderms at my home, because we have creatures. But then, the creatures crossed a line. In efforts to obtain a cereal bar, they ate through my backpack. There is no greater crime. Some folks love shoes, some cars, some Pokemon cards, some pineapples with googly eyes dressed up as dolls. Hey, I don't judge. I love backpacks. I've spent ma- ny a day sitting on the floor of a camp- ing store, running my fingers down their zippers, opening every pocket. Is there a greater rush than purchas- ing a new backpack? And now these creatures had taken this joy from me! Nice time was over. I set up traps around the home, in- cluding one under the coffee table in the living room, where I had often seen the creatures hide. On the first night with the traps, I watched a creature scurry under the coffee table and thought, "Aha! Now I caught you! Now I'll know what you are! " A lit- tle brown mouse poked its head out from under the table, walked out into the middle of the rug and glared at me as if to say, "Et tu, Brute? " It then scurried back under the coffee table, and once again I thought, "I've got you now! " But then the mouse scooted out from un- der the coffee table, tail first, pulling with it the trap. It left the trap out in the open, stared at me again and ran off. A number of years ago, my dad was battling squirrels that kept eating his corn crop. He eventually put a chick- en-wire fence around the corn. The next morning, my dad found five corn cobs, the corn completely gnawed off the cob, stacked outside the slid- ing glass door leading out to the sec- ond-story deck. A squirrel watched, perched on the deck railing, as my dad discovered the present it had left for him. I think I'm going to lose this battle. Like Katiedid Langrock on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/katiedid- humor. It's that time of the year when I will be heading for some R and R. I need to see the ocean and walk on the sand, and hear and feel the sea breeze, enjoy some shrimp, crabs and oys- ters prepared by my brother- in-law, who al- ways caters to our dire needs. At the place where we stay, it is just so relaxing to sit on a balco- ny and watch people as they head to the beach, and watch families playing volleyball. People soaking in the sun and just doing nothing. It is time to see the palm trees, hear the rustle of their leaves, see the sea birds as they grace- fully fly and chirp. It is also that time of the year I do some catching up listening to the oldies music of the 50s, 60s and the 70s when we had great and good music. There is a band that plays every af- ternoon in the condo where we stay. Some "music" cre- ated the past few years are truly just noise and non- sense. Sad indeed to say but the music culture bare- ly produces soothing music anymore. It also is time to do some catching up with read- ing books that I've always wanted to read, but seem to not have much time. It is, I think, very important for the mind and soul to expe- rience these wonders ev- ery so often. So when one experienc- es and sees these beau- tiful myriad of Creation, I know there is indeed a Di- vine design for all these wonders. I have trouble be- lieving these things are a product of chance. • • • Through the years, I've had a chance to see some leisure boats in the area where we stay with fun- ny labels. Here's some I'd like to share: Acqua Holic; Seas the Day; Marlin Mon- roe; Fish and Chicks; Ye- ah Buoy; The Codfather; Moor Often than Knot; She Got the House; Aboat Time; Pier Pressure; Cir- rhosis of the River; Nauti Buoy; Eggs –ta-Sea; Tate N'Nick; 1.2M Kayak; Great White Shack; Canoe Nice; Sea Seek; Look Serious; Fish Inn; Bait N Swish. And Some fishing boats with these labels: Oh Crab; Dip Sea; Happy Nest; Net so Fast; O. Sean. 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