A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

Fairview-Riverside State Park and Otis House Museum will host a beginners crochet workshop this Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The project for the class will be a snowflake Christmas tree. Phone 792-4652 to register. Participants should bring a sack lunch.

The program is free with park admission of $1 per person ages four to 61; under three and 62 and up are admitted free. The park is located one mile east of Madisonville on Louisiana Highway 22.

Charlie celebrated his 70th birthday surrounded by his multi-generational family and close friends. They roasted him. When his turn came he said: “First, let me finish this story I was telling my grandchildren: ‘And then, the big old wolf came running out of the woods and ate up all the fussy women and the rude children. The end. Did you like that story?’”

There were boos and catcalls from the women and children. Charlie let that all die out and then he said, “Apparently, the wolf didn’t get them all.”

The Slidell Symphony Society is presenting a Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas Concert this Saturday. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Northshore Harbor Center.

For more information, phone 643-1010 or 649-4273; or go online at www.slidellsymphonysociety.org.

A guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D.C. The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. “That’s impossible,” said the tourist. “No one could throw a coin that far!”

“You have to remember,” answered the guide, “a dollar went a lot farther in those days.”

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

— Mother Teresa

Terry Maddox is publisher of St. Tammany News.