“Cast all your anxiety on God, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7

The streets of Eads have been a quieter lately since the school has been closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, teachers, and several employees in local businesses were home in quarantine too. Sadly for the residents, Prairie Pines Assisted Living Center and the Weisbrod Hospital Extended Care Unit are closed to visitors. So, this makes it so lonely for all. I plead with those of you who would take time to write notes or maybe make phone calls to the residents. Robin Musgrave and I deliver things to residents in both places by ringing the bell; then someone answers to deliver the cards or bags to the residents. There are 14 residents at Weisbrod now, and 13 at Prairie Pines, so if you want to write a note or send a little card, there is a hint. I could tell you their names, or just write a general note to any resident. Ken Grant will deliver them in Weisbrod, and Brandy Barnes will get them delivered at Prairie Pines.

Besides the lonely residents, please remember that more teenagers and elderly folk are lonely these days because of being isolated. Hopefully we are all more aware of neighbors and friends who need some attention and encouragement.

It is good to see the harvest trucks rolling into the elevators to unload red maize, coes, or corn. Oh, the country sides are so pretty with golden grasses, red feed crops, and green wheat growing. My mother, Ida’s, rust mums are blooming in the yard where she planted the roots from our country home 45 years ago.

Rick Glover brightened the lives of many senior citizens October 20 after he started barbequing ribs at 4:00 a.m. He also prepared baked beans and his favorite home-made ice cream, which was served with baked potatoes and so many good side dishes. We were missing several men who were driving harvest trucks, and others who were sick or away, like our President, Loretta Seibel, who was in Kansas to help celebrate her daughter, Theresa Heatwole’s, 60^th birthday. Another regular meal attendee who couldn’t be with us was Terry Voss, who is in the Centennial Rehabilitation Center in Colorado Springs. Happy 60^th birthday to Terry, too.

Thank you to Jimmy and Amanda Brown, who have brought the Down East Boys gospel quartet to Eads for well over 22 years. This year they performed at the Praise Church October 17. It was impressive to see that may people who came were from other surrounding communities. I especially enjoyed hearing the people sing as our Jimmy Brown played the grand piano for us. He has a few more CDs for sale that Down East Boy singer, Doug Pittman, recorded and produced. Jimmy and Amanda’s daughter, Lauren Brown, illustrated this CD cover. Jimmy wrote a deserving dedication to his wife, and I saw his son, Ross, was busy setting out chairs. What a fine family. Another nice happening is that all of Louis and Lauretta Brown’s children’s families now live in Eads, except Mark, who has a busy family life up in northern Colorado.

The bus trip travelers to Branson, Missouri, returned from a week of concerts and touring from a new resort place near Branson. The ladies told me at coffee hour last Monday that they had such a good time with tour directors, Wanda and Virgil Lessenden. Lola Igou said, “I had so much fun I would pack my bags and go tomorrow if there were a trip!”

Window painter Shelley Meyers has been painting fall designs on many businesses’ windows. How nice of her to share her talent with us and those who shop in our town.

Postmaster Susie Paintin sent out a big auction poster to me about Hazel Krueger’s auction November 13 at 10^th and Wanstead streets in Eads. She and her three children are selling a massive number of antiques, furniture, autos and treasures, plus her home.

Jack Johnson of Kit Carson has shared a stack of Fence Post magazines with me that I have been sharing with others. Jack’s engineering career took him to many Middle Eastern and African countries. He writes interesting articles and about ethnic foods he cooks in the Range Ledger.

The Senior Citizen’s will revive a custom Sunday, October 31. Seniors will have a soup supper and wait to greet costumed “trick or treater” youth and adults to come in for treats from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. while law enforcement officers will be on Maine Street in Eads to give out treats.

Natalie Mitchell Garcia reminds us that “It was 10 years ago and life has not been the same. Our hearts still flow, and what it meant to lose you, no one will ever know. In memory of Howard Mitchell, Tony, Tayla, Anthony, Jeremy, and Austin.” When I see photos of that summer with those dear young souls who were in Vacation Bible School at Trinity Lutheran in Kit Carson, I am suddenly hit with the pain of losing those precious children and teenagers and Natalie’s father in that highway accident.It reminds me of the sorrow our people in both towns experienced.

Congratulations to Leisha Peck and Mike Walsh on their marriage last weekend. Leisha works as the Bent County police dispatcher, and Mike leads the Weisbrod Hospital maintenance department. Her grandmother, Gloria Peck, was glad to live to go to her granddaughter’s wedding, and she did well!