Veteran's Day 2019

This is my senior picture out of our 1965 year book.  There is a reason I post it this morning!  As I sipped my FP and ate a heated up prepackaged breakfast sandwich this morning I thumbed through the WSJ.  A full page story on A11 caught my eye.  The reason, it was about 1969 which was the year I graduated from college.  This story was about the 50th reunion of grads from the Naval Academy.  Now those guys are my age.  It was a great story about the ups and downs of the guys in the class.  It was about what they did, how they lived their lives, how several died at a young age etc.  It did talk about reunions that took place every 5 years starting with year 20.  Each year a few more came to the reunions until this year every living grad came.  BUT what really got my attention was a paragraph near the bottom of column one. I quote, "I was 17.  I came off a farm.  My social skills were terrible.  I had no leadership skills.  I was trying to survive, says Mr. Schram."  Now of course I did not graduate from an academy nor did I go on to do great things but "for sure" I graduated from HS, from college and then way beyond that still my social skills were so bad and so lacking.  I could write about saying the wrong things in a situation.  I could write about behavior that was childish and after the fact embarrassing and the list goes on.  I do not blame anyone but it just was the truth.  I think the combination of "who I was as a person (in many ways I took after Mom)" and farm life just stunted my social skills for much of my life.  I could write about situations well into my 40s and 50s and perhaps beyond that where I just did the wrong things socially.  I am not claiming that I have good social today but they are light years ahead of where they were much of my life.  I am not saying that if I could go back and change my up bringing I would.  No, but what I am saying is sometimes there is a combination of factors that seal the deal so to speak and for me that stunted my social skills big time.  I should add that it was all on me, not on anybody else.  

Not sure what Terry and I should do today.  I can jump in the pool because the heater is fixed.  We can turn on the AC because that is fixed.  We can enjoy cold water because we have a working fridge.   What else is there to do?  Oh there is tennis for me Monday-Friday and Terry has a couple of appt so I guess we can keep busy.  I do need to read up on the Traeger website so I know how to do a turkey in the smoke/grill mode.  For some reason it is not in the Traeger cook book that came with the grill.  

Terry and I did make some great purchases at Target yesterday.  They had Butterball frozen turkeys for $.89 pd and frozen turkey breasts for the same price.  We purchased 2 of each and that should carry us over the holidays.