YOU are more interesting than ME
What better Christmas present could we all have but that beautiful rain Saturday and Sunday! I think we had some on Friday, too, but my days are so mixed up, that I probably couldn't tell you what today is - except that it's the day we have to get out another paper. Next week we will be back on regular schedule and all of us here at The News-Reporter will be so glad.

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To get back to the rain: Norris Ware, my dependable rainkeeper on Hill Street, tells me we had 2.8 inches last week (Monday to Monday); and that on Saturday and Sunday when it started raining just before midnight Saturday and didn't stop until around 7 p.m. Sunday, we had 2.1 of that 2.8 total. The month of December was better than usual with 5.7 inches recorded. The total for the year is 33.05 which means that we are still 12.3 inches short for the year. But that's better than a lot of areas in Georgia. . . . I'm sure there are other people in the county who "keep up with the rain." If you would like to report rainfall from your area, please call me before 5 p.m. on Mondays. Rainfall is always different in different areas.

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My spouse and I went to the wedding of our great-niece, Kelley Randall, and Patrick Castaneda at the magnificentFirst Presbyterian Church in Clinton, S.C., Saturday night. It was a beautiful wedding with magnificentmusic played on a magnificentorgan by a magnificentorganist. The bride and bridegroom were beautiful and the grandparents of the bride - Jo and Buzzy Randall - looked pretty elegant themselves. Kelley is the daughter of Randy and Kim Randall of Clinton. (Please don't be appalled at my overuse of "magnificent."I know better. It just was: magnificent.)

. I have not been out of the county in quite some time. On the way to Clinton it was hard to believe how low the water was in the lakes. It made me know that we've got to cut back on our water usage. Norris said that on the way to Augusta Monday morning there was a trickle of water in an area of the lake which had been absolutely dry. And Walt Marsh of Walhalla, S.C., interim pastor at First Baptist, said that a place at Lake Hartwell that had been extremely dry, had a trickle of water in it Sunday as he came by.

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The Washington Little Theater Co. will have its annual meeting Tuesday, January 8, at The Playhouse on North Alexander Avenue. It's an important meeting and all the members and prospective members will want to be sure to go and enjoy the entertainment which includes Debbie McLeod singing songs from "Gypsy;" Emma Collins playing the violin; Genevieve Coe playing her harp; and maybe the Jones Boys, picking and singing. The meeting is at seven o'clock.

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Did you see that beautiful full moon during Christmas week? I think it was at its prettiest on Christmas Eve. It was so warm one night that we were sitting in the yard keeping an eye on "The Beagles" in the pen and watched that beautiful moon rise from nowhere and make its way across the sky.

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I'm sure you've seen the Christmas greetings from people in our armed forces overseas. Last week on Channel 26 TV, Major Amy Roberson wished her family and friends in Wilkes County a merry Christmas. Amy is stationed in South Korea and is the wife of Hamp Roberson of Wilkes County. He is the son of Shirley and Larry Roberson.

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Veteran theater-performers, Tom and Gail Duggan, will star in the Washington Little Theater production of I Do! I Do! in February. They are the only actors in the show.

What would Christmas be without children!! I had the privilege of meeting two pretty little girls and one handsome (pretty) little boy all in the same week. The first little girl I met was Scout, six-month-old daughter of Maria (Burgess) and Joel Walker, from Dallas,Texas, who were visiting Scout's grandparents, Janet and Martin Burgess. . . The second little girl was Ella Jane, 18-month-old daughter of Sarah Jane (Stover) and Matt Gaither from Canton. Ella Jane was visiting her granddaddy, Jerry Stover, along with her grandmother, Celeste Stover. . . . The pretty little boy was Johnathan, five-month -old son of Beth (Bell) and John Conard. He's the grandson of Pauline Bell.

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I don't do a lot of shopping, but I did during Christmas. It was hard to findgifts and other items that were not made in China. I always check to see where things are made and try to buy American made. If it says "Made in China" I don't buy it. It makes shopping take a little more time than I would like for it to, but that's what I did.

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At the end of each year we clean out our picture fileat The News- Reporter and store the pictures alphabetically by the year. Every year we have hundreds of pictures which people have not picked up after bringing them to us. If you count the storage of pictures we have upstairs for the past 20-25 years, we have thousands! It would be great if you would come by and get your pictures or if you want to look through the fileand take some you would like to have, you can do that.

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Now you know! If you don't call and tell me items for this column, I have to write about ME, and I had rather write about YOU. You are much more interesting. So call me at 706-678-2636 or 7781, and this column will be more interesting.

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Thank you to all who read this column and who are so helpful in telling me interesting things about interesting people. You know, just as I know, that there are no better, no kinder, people in the world than you right here in Washington-Wilkes. I love you all.

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