Hello December 2018

Day 50, "Every picture has a story"

Here is the picture of December on the calendar I made for family.  Could one write a book about life on the farm and education at Wood Lake School???  AND of course Roxanne who lived such a full life but a life that was too short.  From the little girl Helen baby sat in Fargo while Mom went to school to the cowgirl in Strawberry Point Iowa to the business lady in Rapid City SD Roxanne was a person so full of life and so loving to your family.  Yet, as we all know, life, family, friends can be here today and gone tomorrow.  I sometimes ask God WHY the young person who dies way too young and then the elderly person who is waiting to die but it does not come soon enough?  Will I get the answer in the "after life"?  In the picture of Dave, Joan and Janet the trees are pretty small in the back.  I could write a story about picking weeds in the trees and finding these large green worms and other things too.  Now when a farmer plants trees there are no work days of picking weeds but rather this ugly black material that goes down the row with tiny seedlings popping up every so often only later to become a tree.  It actually sounds too easy but then maybe it sounds better too???

I finished the planner book that I make for Terry and me that I make each year.  Those darn store bought ones just do not do the trick.  Our book includes about 75 pages, 40+ pictures and information like addresses and important dates.  I brought it to Staples yesterday and they said it would be ready no later than Sunday.  I print it on presentation paper front and back and then have Staples cut it down to a 5X7 size and put a front and back plastic cover on.  This year I included more pages for notes, pages with an entire month on it and then 6 months into 2020.  It is a weekly planner but it is nice to have pages of the whole month too.  After I thought I had finished it I went through it page by page and found a few things that I had missed.  After I finished that Terry mentioned an aniversary in her family and yes I had missed that too.  Yikes, it made me waste several more pages as I needed to take out old and insert new.  

It seems almost impossible that we are into the last month of 2018.  Terry and I have been in Naples this fall/winter for almost 2 months and it seems like 2 weeks.  Maybe I need to start my list of projects for the summer in St. Paul!  No, hold on-----live in the moment because there may be something interesting that you miss!

It is almost 7:30 and the hash browns, eggs, bacon and FP are history so on to something that needs to be done!