5/26/25

Memorial Day

“Home of the free because of the brave.”

Happy Birthday:  Abby & Janolyn May 27

Happy Anniversary:  Ashley & Trevor May 26 / Nick & Lisa May 28

Congratulations to High School Grads:  Lilly , Ethan, and Hailey

Prayer:  Natalie safe delivery – due anytime soon / Raegan, Katherine & Cierra healthy pregnancies

May 26 – World Redhair Day

Redheads:

• Less than 2% of the population have red hair
• Redhair-blue eye is the rarest combination
• Scotland has the world’s largest percentage of redheads – 13%
• Ireland is second with 10%
• Redheads require more anesthesia than people with other hair colors.
• Redheads are more likely to be left-handed
• Redheads don’t go gray
• Any ethnicity can have red hair, more like to occur in people of Western and European descent.
• Both parents must carry the MC1R gene
• Redheads have thicker hair, but less individual strands of hair. 

Good morning from NC.  Looks like rain is in the forecast for the next few days, so Dean is out early trying to get all the mowing done before the rain rolls in later this morning.

Fairly quiet week here.  Mackenzie had her end of year band concert.  Since she is in the percussion ensemble, she is in the back of the 90 band members most of the time.  At 5 feet we could barely see the top of her head.  Sometimes we would see her hands moving if she was playing the big drum or the snare drum.  She did get up front when she played the xylophone and the vibraphone.

Hailey had some senior stuff.  One of the things they do is the seniors wear their caps and gowns and walk the halls of their elementary schools.  The elementary students line the hallways and wave and give them hi fives.  It is a sweet event.

Brian, Jess, Mackenzie, and Zoe went to the mountains for the weekend.  Hailey stayed home to work.  Dean and I watched a lot of college girls’ softball, and I finished 2 puzzles.

Have a blessed week,

Love,