Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Headed towards the end of January

Day 104, "Every picture has a story"
I think this picture is good for today given the forecast for the midwest today and tomorrow.  St. Paul is currently -8 with a low of -31 tomorrow night.  Geneseo is currently -13 with VERY cold temps tonight.  Chicago is expecting a storm and the lowest daytime high ever tomorrow.  So here are Helen and I on the farm in maybe 1953 or 54.  By the looks of the fort we must have had help from Dave and or Joan.  I think it is west of the house with Mom's clothes line behind.  It looks like those are the trees to the west of the creek.  I do not remember but a good guess would be we spent our time building the snow fort as well as sledding down the hill beyond the out house.  The hill seemed to be a great place to play in the winter.  We did NOT use the out house in the winter but instead had a pail upstairs and then would take it out before it got too full and pour it down by the creek.  Today that would be considered pollution and the county would come out and say NO.  It is hard to see but there is a black dog by Helen.  I do not remember the name of that dog.  I know it was not Tiny as she was brown.  I would say we did a pretty good job of building!

Terry and I had a full day yesterday.  We were in the car by 7:00 AM on our way to Winter Haven.  The service for Judith's husband was nice and then there was lunch afterward.  Don was to be buried in a military cemetery later in the day.  At the luncheon were Larry Dahl and his wife.  Larry was in brother Dave's class.  He and his wife still have a farm near Forman, a cabin in Minnesota and then they spend the winter near Orlando FL.  On our way home Terry got a text from her daugther Kim that they were in town and would we like to have an early dinner.  We arrived home about 2:00, Kim and Dave arrived about 4 and we went out for dinner at 5:00.  

Tennis away today with a departure time of 12:15.  I play court #2 and am looking forward to it.  I will be playing with a guy I have never played with so we need to come up with a plan before we start.  Then tomorrow my team plays one of the best teams in the league.  I know who is playing but I have not come up with the pairings yet.  I could go kind of several ways with 3 of the 6 guys.  I think I need to call one of the guys to get his input on where he may play.

As I stepped out of the house to get the paper this morning it was 43 which is cold for here.  However I did go out in my barefoot so it was not that bad.  

The FP did a great job of getting me going this morning but sadly it is now history.


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