Wednesday, November 8, 2017

A project finished

A North Dakota photo perhaps taken around 1970 or so
From left to right Marvin Lee, farmer and son, Bob Mouw, John Mouw and Dad
I am sure the prong horns were loaded into John's trusty red Ford pickup for the trip home
I shot my one and only prong horn in the late 70s but was not on this trip
Last year I searched and searched for a 2017 calendar book for Terry but could not find what I liked so I made one.  She uses it so much I thought I would make one for 2018 and also do one for me.  I insert pictures of people on the week of their birthday/anniversary and then put in ages.  I purchased a 100 sheet pack of presentation paper so I could print on both sides.  At the end I had 4 sheets left to put in the back for notes.  I finished it yesterday and took it to Staples to have it cut to size (5X8) and then bound.  I will pick it up today.  Terry already has a Dr appt for 2018 so she needs it.  It was a fun but frustrating project.  With figuring out pictures, note pages and weeks I ended up wasting about 6 pages but in the end it turned out fine. Nice to have it finished.
Every once and a while I will go to LuLu publishing to see if any books have sold.  At this time, two and a half years after publishing, most of the time the revenue page shows -0-$ but this morning 3 e-books and 3 paper backs were sold!!!  That means a check for about $9 will be coming this month.  A little bit closer to my million dollar goal.  Wait a minute, that means I am only .0016% to my goal so I may have to wait a bit😕.  I guess I had better not go out and spend $$ based on future book income!  No Bentley for me yet!!!  I am thinking that I may need to start promoting it in a big way.  Here in Naples you often see someone standing on a corner waving a banner for a business.  Maybe I should go to Staples, get a 6X8 banner and stand on the corner.  "North Dakota Boy writes history book.  Pull over and get you HOT copy"  On second thought it is not so hot so I may just forget that and play more tennis.  Speaking of tennis we have our 3rd match today.  I will be playing court #1 with the best player on our team.  I was thinking maybe we should move down to court #3 to kind of make sure we win.  No no I would not do that but after losing 2 straight weeks in a match tie breaker maybe something different is in order.
Terry is still struggling with her broken bone in the left foot.  Yesterday we saw the Dr and he read the MRI report.  She is now in a boot and will see the Dr. in 2 weeks.  It is healing but way way too slowly. We hear of people battling cancer etc. so I guess we should be thankful and patient with a broken bone.  Brings thoughts back about my broken wrist and the two surgeries to repair and take out the metal plate.  Of course bones will heal and many other ailments are not that way.
We are having warm weather for this time of the year.  Today as I take the court the temp is supposed to be high 80s.  I guess the idea is to have plenty of water and not run like a crazy man on the court.
Enough for now as the FP, with no cream, is finished.  No cream because Terry and I are experimenting with something new in our eating.  If we are successful I will share at a later date.  If we fail you will hear NOTHING!!!

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