We had a strange experience early Tuesday morning of last week. At 6 a.m. my husband turned on the news as usual. He awakened me to tell me something strange was going on. I saw that Fox News was in Pakistan or some place like that with their language, CNN was in China with Chinese language, another news station was in France speaking French, a cartoon channel was speaking in a foreign language and channels 6 and 12 were blacked out. I had the feeling that America had disappeared overnight. After about 30 minutes everything was back to normal. I wonder if anyone else saw that. Faye Lamar said she saw the same thing so we didn’t imagine this. ƒSpeaking of strange, I did see on the news where a man in Massachusetts had what was thought to be a tumor in his lungs and was having surgery for what he thought was a malignant tumor. The doctors found a pea sprout in one of his lungs. He had evidently had a pea to go down the wrong way several months before. How many times have we told our children, "Don't swallow those watermelon seeds or a watermelon will grow inside you?" ƒI received an interesting e-mail from Madeline Heard Poteet in Texas. She sent me a picture of a beautiful quilt that was pieced together by someone in her husband's family in the late 1920s or 1930s many years ago. Madeline got her neighbor to help her with the quilting. Her neighbor grew up in Midland, Texas, and when she was young, she was a babysitter for George and Barbara Bush. Madeline said she enjoyed hearing about her experiences with them while she quilted. When preparing the top for quilting they were able to figure out who pieced this together when they saw some small light brown spots in a couple of places on the quilt top. It dawned on Madeline that the spots were snuff! Eddie, Madeline's husband, had once told her that his great-grandmother was a big user of snuff and bought Levi Garrett (brand) by the case. She realized that this quilt was put together by Ed- die's great-grandmother. When I was a child there were snuff samples sent in the mail. My sister, Kay Tyler, was dared by me to try the peach snuff sample. It sounded so good. Well, I thought she never would quit spitting. ƒ Scott and Kathy Ware and Stacey enjoyed supper with Kathy's parents, Paul and Gail Vandiver in Union Point, last Saturday night. ƒI understand Bill Savage fixed Brooke Dawson's car with a pair of kitchen shears last week. So if you need help with anything needing to be fixed, call on Bill Savage. ƒKathy Robertson of Winder and Jim and Jessica Turner and Jordan of South Dakota visited with Louie and Vivian Wolozin on Wednesday of last week. Vivian enjoyed seeing her little greatgranddaughter, Jordan, who is now three years old. Morgan and Jackie Waters of Buford visited Saturday with Louie and Vivian. ƒJohn and Nonie Yochim and little Maddie Davis attended a cookout at the home of Dale and Kathy Robertson in Winder Saturday. This was in honor of Kathy's daughter, Jessica, and her family of South Dakota. ƒBlake and Angela Davis spent a few days last week at Myrtle Beach, S.C. ƒCamping over the weekend at Hester's Ferry were Mark and Angie Thornton, Laney and Jackson, and Ben and Tammy Echols, Dylan and Taylor. ƒKay Tyler spent Saturday night with the Greg Tyler family in Hoschton. ƒRalph and Mary Will Denard enjoyed Mary Will's 50th high school class reunion Saturday night at the Woman's Club in Washington. Edna Lamar, one of their former teachers, rode to the reunion with Ralph and Mary Will. Each teacher attending was given a floral arrangement with the school colors made by Gale Hill. There were 84 people in attendance. ƒDavid and Nancy Hilley visited with Amanda, Owen and Warren Hilley, in Commerce Monday through Wednesday of last week. Stacy was at Fort Gordon with his annual training. Nancy attended the 89th birthday celebration of Mrs. Frances Fortson held at Fortsonia Baptist Church Saturday. ƒFrances Johnson of North Augusta, S.C., has been staying in her mother's home for the week. ƒMarjorie Gibson of Dallas spent the weekend with Peggy Sale and Saturday and Sunday they visited their mother, Lois Sale, who is at Spring Valley Health Care Center in Elberton. Lois celebrates her 86th birthday this week and it was good to hear that she is doing so well. Marjorie and Peggy went to the fish fry at Beulah Baptist Church Saturday night and Marjorie enjoyed getting to see the people of Beulah that she had not seen in quite a while. ƒLadies who would like to go on the ladies retreat to Toccoa on September 17-18, please contact Kay Fincher for information at 706-401-9095. Karen Dilbeck will be the speaker. ƒI understand Beulah Baptist Church is having good attendance at their revival this week. ƒWe extend sincere sympathy to the families of James Vinson, George Garrard, and Betty Jean Guin. ƒLet's remember the following people in our prayers: Frances Vinson, Christine Burton, Peggy Ware, Tina VanHart, Kathryn Anderson, Irene Echols, Lois Sale, Becky Thomasson, Becky Stover, Destini Long, Shirley Roberson, Juanita Parker, Rose Ware, Patsy Epps, Judy Wright, Marvin Weaver, Scott Williamson, Randy Butts, Judy Thornton, Tommy Garrett, Charles Pullen, Charles Blakey, Vivian Wolozin, Phoebe Davis, and Almond Standard who will have surgery this week. ƒIf at first you don't succeed, try reading the directions.