Dear Gabby

Welcome back to the Dear Gabby advice column. Happy Independence Day! God Bless America; America Bless God. Ronald Reagan once said: All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Tag; you’re it! It’s summer vacation time. Several years ago, I hung a map in my house to put pins in all of the locations I have visited. I had to go to Cape Flattery, Washington and Madawaska, Maine first, so the map wouldn’t fall down. This year, I checked my summer vacation budget. I’ll be going to a movie. Send your questions to me by clicking on Dear Gabby at www.PostcardsLive.com/share.

DEAR GABBY

My husband loves gadgets. Consequently, he has one of everything, and it’s very hard to buy him gifts. Do you have any suggestions?

PUZZLED for his birthday. I used to have a nice large wooden cutting board. Now I have two small ones. It’s going back!

GABBY

DEAR PUZZLED

Not knowing anything about your husband, I’m sorry, but I don’t. But, my husband is the same way. I do have a suggestion of something to avoid buying for him. My husband Dud really likes to keep the household knives very sharp. He thinks they are actually less likely to cut you badly since you’re not required to put much pressure on what you’re cutting. He sharpened the blades the old fashioned way, so I bought him a fancy new electric sharpener

CONFIDENTIAL TO “PET PEEVE”: That is exactly mine, too. To fly Old Glory in an improper or tattered condition is not honoring what she stands for.

Please replace any worn or discolored flags. Thank you, and have a safe and happy Independence Day!

Do You Know?

Story by Wes Altom

“Lord, don’t let me rust.”

After Luther Eugene “Gene” Hunter passed, his daughter Patricia Blaikie found an old Bible that had belonged to him. She looked through the pages, certain she would find great verses he underlined to lead her life by. The only thing she found was that single handwritten sentence in the back.

At 71 years young, Patricia seems determined to take those words to heart, embodying a determined spirit of volunteerism she inherited by example.