A late posting

Here I am at 5 PM and I have not blogged yet.  Will post the answers to my pictures from yesterday.  The first is in Veblen of the Lien place where there was a pool table and burgers if you wanted.  It also was the place workers gathered for a morning and afternoon break.  They would shake dice to see who would pay.  Next door was a grocery store.  As one can see they are LONG ago closed and vacant.  The second is in Lidgerwood.  It is the bowling alley that was doing well during the time we were growing up and it still looks to be open today.  I would say it seems to be doing a lot better than much of Lidgerwood.  As I have said in the past rural America is not doing well.  Towns are getting smaller and smaller and farms are getting bigger and bigger.  AND the population is shrinking at an alarming rate.  I do not have facts but I am guessing that there is one farmer today for every 5 farmer in the 40s and 50s.  I would venture to say that NOBODY uses 2 bottom and 3 bottom plows today like Dave and I did in the 50s and 60s.  Perhaps the 3 bottom plow has been replaced by the 30,40,50 foot digger.  Progress, maybe?

My aching back is a tiny bit better and my cold is somewhat better.  Enough and as one could guess the FP is history history.

What is the connection?