Thursday, April 25, 2019

The last Thursday of April 2019

Day 178, "Every picture has a story"
Some of the sights along the Alaska Highway that we drove in 2014.  The highway was built in 1942 during a period of about 6 months.  It was not usable until 1943.  The United States felt they needed it to get supplies to Alaska after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.  We saw some of the equipment that was just left along the road.  The highway begins in Dawson Creek and ends in Delta Junction and runs a total of 1350 miles.  As we drove the highway we had nice paved road, MUCH construction, many muddy stretches but over all it was a pretty nice drive.  Of course our car and camper were muddy most of the time.  Really a great drive and one I would not mind doing again.

I see that I have not written since Monday which I can hardly believe.  Over the last couple of days I have tried to get on top of papers which piled up for, I will not say how long.  I had the licence tabs in the file for the car and camper in St. Paul.  As I went through some of the file and filed new papers the tabs were not where they had been.  I looked several places and nowhere.  I had this grocery bag of papers to go to the recycle and I thought do I really have to go through it paper by paper?  Then yesterday afternoon it dawned on me that maybe, just maybe I had filed them in a different file.  The second file I looked in was labeled "important papers" and presto there they were!  Anyway, after several days of a table filled with messy papers, the papers are all taken care of and put away.

Terry had a Dr. appt yesterday at 1:15.  We arrived on time and sat in the waiting room for some time.   About 1:45 or so we found out that it would be another hour--Terry went to the desk and canceled her appt.  As we left there were at least 3 other people in the waiting room to see the same Dr.  I think we will just skip the appt this spring.  One gets a bit tired of waiting for Dr.  Last week Terry and I had 2 appt in the morning and it took the entire morning.  Our first was at 8:30 and I think we got out of the second at about 11:30.  What the heck, it seems that most people, including us, have more important things to do than sit in Dr. offices for hours.   Really, it seems the Dr. or the offices need to do better than that.

No tennis today, a match tomorrow I think and then one on Saturday.  Today, a rest will do me good.

The guest bedroom is beginning to look like a holding place for things that go north.  As things come to mind I like to put them in a box to go.  Of course many things need to stay in place until the last minute but there are plenty of things that can be put aside now.

No breakfast today, only FP which is about finished.  

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