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            Fight! For Good Health

Welcome to our Health Care issue; you’ll find interesting and informative articles in these pages. We are blessed to live in an area that has many, many good doctors and nurses, plus state-of-the-art medical facilities.

We hope you are enjoying this beautiful North Georgia weather. The flowers, trees,and bushes have outdone themselves this year. We recently drove up through the mountains,and the woods were filled with beautiful dogwood trees. The iris in our yard are the prettiest I’ve ever seen. Most of the vegetable garden is planted and I can almost taste those tomatoes, new potatoes, and corn on the cob.

Mark your calendar—May 8 is Mother’s Day. Be sure you remember your mom on that day. Having a sense of humor is essential to being a mom. We may not always mean to be funny, but sometimes the words that come out of our mouth are good enough for a standup comic.

A few good examples of our words of wisdom:

If someone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? Don’t talk with your mouth full. Why? Because I said so, that’s why! Did you put on clean underwear? What if you were in an accident? I don’t care what your friends do, you follow my rules. I’ll give you something to cry about. I hope someday you have children just like you. You are going to be sorry if I have to stop this car.

            The Bridal Issue

Thanks to Keith Key for our front and back cover this month. A Southern photographer and media professional for 25 years, Keith’s work has captured life’s essence with images of families, children, seniors, couples, and professionals in a legendary way, with style reminiscent of a family with a century of quality experience.

Sandy, Keith’s wife and first choice as a second photographer and assistant on shoots, has become invaluable in her ability to manage the details of photography as a business. The centerpiece of Key’s decision to excel in photography is seen in his world-class wedding photography. Key has photographed weddings of both the well-known and the not-so-well-known, and the demand for his work is exemplified by his assignments to photograph weddings in the world’s two premiere wedding locations, Hawaii and the Caribbean.

As a visionary photographer, Key is widely traveled, from yachting in the Caribbean to kayaking on the Gold Coast of Maui. He knows the importance of setting in his stylish photographic creations, and it shows in his passion for the world’s finest wedding portraiture.

            Our Winter Wonderland

The weatherman was right about the snow coming to Georgia this time. Out of habit, we usually listen to his reports with our skeptic’s hat on. But by the looks of the grocery stores, we changed our habits this time. If you didn’t get enough bread and milk early, you just had to do without. It started snowing and didn’t look like it was going to amount to much; but before you knew it, the snow started to get deeper and deeper, and drifts got bigger and bigger. Things basically just shut down all over North Georgia, and even to the south of us. Thank goodness we do a lot of our work on the computer and by telephone. A lot of shop owners, restaurants, entertainment sites, churches, schools, and government offices were at a standstill. The poor firemen, policemen, and DOT workers were about the only folks out. Even the eighteen-wheelers were at the mercy of the snow and ice, backed up for hours around Atlanta.

This early January snow probably holds a record for being on the ground longer than any snow in years. It was beautiful, and families had a blast playing in it, building snowmen, and sliding down the numerous hills around here. One person said they met all their neighbors out on the street playing in the snow. Any other time, they would all be at work or school and never see each other.

            Easy Style is IN

We’ve had some top interior designers contribute their ideas to help make your home a cozy, beautiful place to be. Their articles may be just the thing you need to give you ideas about how to put new spark into your kitchen, bedroom, or living area. Sometimes it takes new furniture, or a new lamp, colorful pillows, a new flower arrangement, or new window treatments to change that dull room into a place of beauty. And a place you will be happy to invite your friends into. We encourage you to shop with these advertisers, and tell them you read about them in 400 Edition.

Haven’t you enjoyed the nice warm days we had last month? Didn’t seem like a typical North Georgia February. Maybe we had all our cold weather early.  March 20 will be the first day of spring and I think we will all welcome it. I heard someone say the other day that they couldn’t wait to get out in their yard and start planting flowers. I agree—but Bob is usually the one who does the planting. Our April issue will be about gardening, so email us with any ideas you may have about that. We live in a beautiful place, where flowers and trees are plentiful. Bob is already planning his garden; sounds like it will be another big one. Hopefully the deer will go somewhere else to eat this year.

            Watch Us Grow in North Georgia 

It looks like April is going to be a busy month. We have several religious holidays this month: Palm Sunday, the beginning of Passover, Good Friday, and Easter. Palm Sunday is April 17 this year. This observance commemorates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem a week before his death and resurrection. The Bible tells us that as Jesus entered the city, he was greeted by crowds waving palm branches. This account can be found in Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John 12:12-19.

Passover this year will start on Tuesday, April 19, and continue for seven days, until Monday, April 25. I discovered while researching this that in the Jewish calendar, a holiday begins at sundown on the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Passover beginning at sundown Monday, April 18.

Good Friday is April 22 and commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus on the cross. Many churches have times of prayer on this day. And this year we celebrate Easter on April 24. This is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. What a glorious day! Read Matthew 28:1-10 or Mark 16:1-8 in your Bible for the story of the resurrection.