Category: Malakoff

By Loretta Humble

We’ve had a lot of wildlife action down here at the farm lately. Let’s start with the rodents.

The mystery squirrel has returned. I saw him once, from a distance, snapped a really grainy picture before he disappeared. He is a little larger than the average squirrel, with a regular squirrel-colored belly, but the top of his head, his back, and part of his sides, look like they’ve been dredged in flour. Or maybe like he just got a frosting job. I couldn’t find anything like him on the Internet, and nobody I asked had ever seen anything like him. This time I got good pictures so I can prove I’m not nuts.

Then there is rat situation. Some of you may remember I had a big battle going on with some huge good looking rats two years ago. Finally trapped them and carried Continue reading “Around Malakoff: Lots of critters on the farm”

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

I have two pieces of medical advice for you this week. The first one is this: Trust your home town pharmacy to do you right. Don’t be so sure the big chain pharmacies can do as well.

I still don’t understand why or how this happened, but this is what I experienced this weekend:

Someone who has no money, that I’ve been trying to help, got his hand hurt and it got infected. Even though I paid for him to go to ETMC’s Emergency Clinic, it continued to get worse. Sunday he had to go back to the real emergency room. They lanced it for the second time, and gave him a prescription for some powerful antibiotics and pain medicine. I was out of town. All the regular pharmacies were closed except one of those big pharmacies, and they were about to close. He called me, and I called somebody back home, and asked them to call to find out what the prescriptions would cost and loan him the money. She was told it would be $32, so she loaned him that. When he got to the store, they told him the antibiotic was $92 and the Continue reading “Around Malakoff: Trust your home town pharmacist”

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

Christmas will be here before you know it. Really before you know it. Like in another week or so here in Malakoff, where downtown merchants are getting out their Christmas decorations for their second annual Christmas in July event. And this year they plan to have 12 days of it, like the song, having some special event every day, starting Friday, July 19 and going through Tuesday, July 30. There will be an art show, and a couple of teas, and a book sale, and cash drawings, and demonstrations, and I don’t know what all. There will be refreshments in many shops, and of course, extra special specials. My Cedar Lake companies are going to be participating by offering some checkups like blood pressure, glucometer and oximeter readings, and whatever else we can think of. Maybe we’ll even weigh you if you want us to. The list of events will be elsewhere in the paper, and in Henderson County Now and all over the Internet. I sure don’t have room to list them all here. Don’t miss the fun!

I got a late birthday present last week when my daughter Liz and daughter Tina and her whole family took me blueberry picking at Echo Springs Blueberry Farm. That was fun. I’ve posted a lot of pictures of that on www.facebook.com/aroundthetown. They have great muffins and free coffee Continue reading “Around Malakoff: Getting ready for Christmas in July”