Nibby Priest -Life On Purpose

Living at Mile Marker 803.9 of the Ohio River in Downtown Henderson KY

Flooded Ohio River- My front yard

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This is an aerial photograph of the flooded Ohio River in front of my house at the downtown Henderson KY riverfront. You cannot see my house in this picture because it is hidden by the trees.

One thing they say about Henderson KY is that we are on the Ohio River but never in it.  The downtown area is very blessed not to have to be dealing with some of the flooding issues that the outlying county areas are dealing with.

This picture was taken May 6, 2011.  The picture is a high resolution photograph.  Please click on the picture for a more detailed view.

Thank you pilot Randy VanWynsberghe for sharing this picture with me.

 

Encouraging Peace at your table

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You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Abba in heaven; . . .
Matthew 5:43-45a

“May peace prevail upon the face of the Earth.”

Let us start right now, faithfully following in the way of Jesus, being peacemakers in our own time.

My Prayer
Holy One, help me to be more like Jesus, show me how to do the hard work of loving my enemies, praying for those who hurt me, loving others as you have loved me. Amen.

-copied from a well known Dallas based female PhD Reverend.

Tomblinson Funeral Home-Henderson’s New Funeral Home

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Henderson Kentucky has a new funeral home that opened last month.

Tomblinson Funeral Home. They opened in the former location of Wolf’s Convention Center at 325 First Street in downtown Henderson KY.

Tomblinson Funeral Home has locations in Sebree, Earlington and Slaughters/Hanson.

The owner is Chip Tomblinson is from Hanson KY.  Chip’s daughter Leah Tomblinson graduated from Western Kentucky University in the Spring of 2011 and is working in  the Henderson Chapel.

See the advertisement below that ran recently in the local newspaper The Gleaner.

Tomblinson Funeral Home
Tomblinson Funeral Home Henderson KY

The phone for Tomblinson Funeral Home is 270.826.2544.

We are so fortunate in Henderson to have many fine funeral homes to choose from: Rudy Rowland Funeral Home, Tapp Funeral Home and Benton Glunt Funeral Home.  Both Benton Glunt and Tapp Funeral Home are owned by the same person.

If you need choices and funeral arrangements within your budget, I personally recommend the services of Tomblinson Funeral Home.  Do keep in mind that prepaid funeral plans and burial life insurance policies can be moved to the funeral home of your choice.  They do not have to be used at the funeral home where they were purchased.

Here is some important information about “What you need to know about prepaying funeral expenses” from the Kentucky Department of Insurance .   Another good document to review is Funerals: A Consumer Guide from the Federal Trade Commission.

Some are mistakenly calling it Thompson Funeral Home in Henderson KY but it is truly Tomblinson Funeral Home.  At one time they were known as Tompkins Funeral Home.

Funerals and the death of loved ones are not high on the priority list for anyone to have to deal with.

What has your experience been using and working with funeral homes?

updated 5/24/2012 original post 4/16/2011

Beauty Shop Pickles

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Just a few weeks ago I was in our historic downtown Henderson KY getting my hair cut at one of our towns oldest beauty shops-a precious place full of some of Henderson Kentucky’s finest operators (now known as stylists) and customers.

It was a late Thursday afternoon.  Thursdays and Fridays at Kelly’s Mane Event (formerly known as the Cardinal Beauty Shop operated by Dorothy Kockritz) are very busy.

One of the hot topics of beauty shop gossip was: “How does the ever popular Downtown Sandwich Shop make those great pickles?”  One of the ladies who was just getting up from the hair dryer said she knew the recipe, and it was easy.   She went on to say that a lady on North Main Street was making the pickles for the Downtown Sandwich Shop, and their business was growing so much that she couldn’t keep up with the demand.  It was also said that she had her hands full building a home in our downtown and that was another reason she had to give up the pickle making.

Here is the recipe as I heard it:

Sweet Pickled Dills

1 gallon of sliced hamburger dills (Sureway and Sam’s Club have these drain them well-you will not use any of this juice)
4 pound bag of sugar  (usually is around 9 1/3 cups)
4 Tablespoons of Pickling Spice (found in the spice isle of grocery)
1 small packet of dried red chili peppers (about 8-10 peppers)  That is if you like it hot!

Mix everything right in the jar!

Tighten the lid of the pickles. Turn jar upside down frequently for the sugar to dissolve.  It usually takes about 24 hours for all the sugar to melt and make the new sweet pickle juice. Keep the pickles on the kitchen counter for seven days turning up and down frequently.

After seven days of turning the pickles place in the refrigerator.  They should keep for  four months.    They are so good you will find them gone way before then.

Have you tried to make the Beauty Shop Pickles?  How did they turn out?

Often times when we think of a beauty shop we think of gossip.  However, it is more than that.  It is creating community and when we have community together we learn and sometimes that can be how to make dill pickles sweet!  Encourage a community of spreading good positive news in your community like they do at Kelly’s Mane Event.

What have you learned at the beauty shop?