Thursday, December 20, 2018

Day 67, "Every picture has a story"
Way back in in the fall of 1959 Cayuga, Cogswell and Forman schools joined.  Everyone in high school was bused to Forman and Cogswell and Cayuga were left with their grade schools.  The new school was named Sargent Central and they became one of the largest, if not the largest,  high schools in the area.  In the fall they fielded a 9 man football team and were part of the Wild Rice Conference which included schools from Lidgerwood, Hankenson, Fairmont and others.  The next school year  they joined the conference with towns to the west like Kulm, Ellenday, Ashley etc.  In that first season of football they dominated the conference and went undefeated.  Well the word was they had a monster line that averaged 225+ and for high school that was huge.  When I was a senior I was 180 and above average weight wise on the team.  Well all one has to do in order to realize that times have changed is look at the picture.  Here is an 8th grade team from Massachusetts that have linemen averaging 6 foot and 260!!!  In the school year of 1960/61, as an eighth grader, I was 5' 11" and weighted about 160 and I towered over all of my classmates.  Times change for sure.


Here is Terry's table when her ladies arrived Tuesday.  A great mix of store bought and home made goodies with another table of water, wine and coffee.  No wonder everyone who came had a great time.

9:00 tennis today.  I played yesterday and my game was half a notch below the previous day but still better than it was last year before I got hurt.  Yesterday was fun as one of the guys is  a bit below the rest of us who play.  Well in the last half hour of our play he was unbeatable and it was actully not disappointing to lose.  Almost every shot he hit was a winnner down the line, down the middle or a lob over our heads.  Afterwards he was so excited and it in turn was exciting to see.  I am hoping that I do not enjoy losing again for a long time!

We received some rain last night and I think we are supposed to get some storms late today.  We need the rain so that will be good.

Cynthia sent a text yesterday and said Mr. Shear, who lived on Niles Ave, died.  I am guessing he was in his upper 80s.  He was our mailman for several years.  He scolded the boys for walking on his lawn when they delivered the morning paper so sometime later Travis had to take his little Kodak camera and play detective.  He shot pictures of Mr. Shear walking on lawns as he delivered the mail!!!  Leave it to Travis for sure.  I think the Shears lived in the Niles Ave house for more than 60 years.  Well one can guess when happened when they sold last summer.  A demolition crew came in and pretty much gutted the house and then after redoing it put it up for sale.  I actually did a small paint job for them way way back.  After they moved last summer it put me at #4 in terms of length of stay on Niles between Cleveland and Cretin.  I am guessing there are about 35 houses in that span.  I am guessing Judy F, our neighbor, may be the longest as she has lived there 54 years.

It is almost 7 and I may have to bike over to the courts to see if they are playable.  Sometimes they are wet at 7:30 but by 9:00 are OK.  NO sun today so that may not be the case.  Anyway I need to to something as my FP is long gone and I just have a faint taste of ham, egg and hash browns left in my mouth.

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