Lifestyle

First, thank you to those who responded to our SOS for new volunteers in last week’s column. We appreciate you and all the support we get from the community.

Hello, I hope this week finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. We are all doing well here. My son made it in from his extended job out of state so we are all blessed he will be home for the holidays. Can’t believe this month is going so fast, Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. So, it’s time to get your dinner shopping done before the stores run out of everything. As always enjoy time with your family and Enjoy the Little Things.

Hospice of the Ozarks provides many services to patients and their loved ones at some of the most difficult times of their lives. Palliative and endof- life care is customarily thought of.

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In Dad and Grandpa McNew’s country pool hall, the old timer’s they called the front bench regulars were the same age then that I am now. I recognize the similarities in them that I now figure is normal for me and others in their seventies. Out of 15 or 20 of those men who fit into the category of ‘old-timers’, there were men who still coon-hunted, trapped and paddled down the piney. Then there were some who could have but didn’t. That was a puzzlement for me, a thirteen-yearold kid back then who always wanted to and could have but had the problem of what Dad would allow. I didn’t always have enough money either when it came to buying ammo, and many of the old timers had that problem too. And of course, there were those who would have been out in the woods or on the river as they had always been, but age gave them a bad back or a ruined knee or an ‘ol lady’ who wouldn’t let them waste the money.