By Dave Ellis
If a person thought July was hot, wait until Thursday when the month of August starts. If the temperatures won’t get a person, the humidity will as it lingers on.
If one noticed, daylight is getting less each day, so it will be getting darker sooner and the nights will cool off.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins – Mary Mitchell, Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Alice Johnson, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Hazel Simmons, Sandy Washburn, Larry Moyers, Mary Alice Simmons and Sandra Vandevander; prayer list – Richard Campbell, Tristan Hartman, Joshua Shirk, Ava George, Roberta Bennett, Kenny Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Debbie Horst, Myrtle Hammer, Pam Rexrode, Nancy George, Neal Eye, Margaret Wimer, Donald Burns, Wendell and Darlene Nelson, Ruby Gail Roberson, Ruth Bauer, Anna Mauzy, Linda Maxwell Looney, Wayne Kimble, Leann Britton, Bennie and Mary Alice Evick, Martha R. Kimble, Jimmie Bennett, Ruthalene Judy, Kathy Puffenbarger, Wanda Pitsenbarger, Gloria Moats, Tim and Dee McCormick, Judy A. Simmons, Nancy Blankenship, Jackie Smith, Rick Waggy, Frankie Judy, Jim Judy, Jessie Simmons, Lucy and Charlie Westfall, David Berg, Minny Rhoads, Mary and Gary Hess, Phil Downs, Larry Rexrode, Ethel Murphy, Bill Snyder, Troy Bennett, Marcia “Marty” Warner and the Stanley Propst family.
Prayer thought: “Dear God, you’re my safe place. Yours is the presence that will never leave me to fend for myself. Your help and protection surround me always.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for July 22 through July 28, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: July 22 – 80°, 65°, .09” (80°, 53°); July 23 – 83°, 61° (82°, 54°); July 24 – 81°, 65°, .01” (85°, 59°); July 25 – 82°, 64° (84°, 61°); July 26 – 84°, 58° (90°, 57°); July 27 – 85°, 56° (91°, 71°, .05”) and July 28 – 91°, 59° (93°, 65°, .01”).