Monday, April 15, 2019

Day 171, "Every picture has a story"
This is in 1974.  People see or they purchase these cheap plastic swings for their kids.  No way here.  Lumber, chains, wood for seats and "for sure" a baby seat for Aaron and we were good to go.  In todays world they may not be consider safe but I would beg to differ as we never had anybody get hurt by falling off or going too high.  One can see by the lawn below the swings that they were used a little bit!  I thought about taking it apart and bringing it to St. Paul when we moved in 1977 but decided instead to build one in St. Paul as well.  A side note is seen on the back of the house in the background of the picture.  For some reason we had cable TV for some time but decided no more.  We called the company and asked them to disconnect it.  A day later our TV screen went snowy so no more cable.  A few days later I was mowing the lawn and happened to notice the cable connection on the house.  It looked funny and as I looked closer it was severed.  I spliced it together and presto we had cable again.  I am guessing the person who came to disconnect it was late for a luncheon date so he just cut it and left!  Note, that happened in 1972, not 2019!

A friend called yesterday and asked if I was up to hitting cross court yesterday afternoon.  One can guess what I said, yes!  To set the scene we got to the court at 3:00 and the temp was high 80s.  I had played 6 times in the last 6 days and what did we do?  We decided to play singles for the practice.  Yes, playing singles is very good practice and to make it better we gave each other up to 3 serves each point.  Usually one gets 2 serves but doing 3 gives one more practice at serves.  Karl, the friend, does play singles fairly often and I play singles pretty much never.  In the first set we were tied 3-3 and then my legs told me I had taken NO time off from the courts in a week.  I lost 3-6 and agreed to play two more games but at that I called it quits.  Will see what those legs tell me at 10:30 today.  There are 2 appt to go to tomorrow so no tennis then and I think maybe none on Wednesday as well.  I feel that may be a welcome time off.  Oh, I could cut down on eating and lose weight, maybe that would help?  I often have such good ideas and such little resolve, poor me.

We are into Holy Week with high expectations of Jesus rising again on Sunday.  Come Lord into my life and into the life of friends and relatives in a powerful way.

There is one more cup of FP waiting for me as I finish the WSJ.

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