Yes, for sure!

I went to the mirror this morning to see if my rash had gotten better.  Before I noticed the rash I noticed that my body is a bit over weight and a bit old.  Well what can one do?  Oh, I could lose weight which I have in a small way over the last few days but the old part, I guess I will just settle for being a bit on the old side and settle on being happy with it.  What the heck, would it help to be unhappy?  Regardless the red rash has now turned into a mellow brown so I take that as a good sign.  I am thinking that I am on my way to normal health again and soon.

OK I am kind of goofy when it comes to my team and how I look at it.  BUT it is fun as well.  I looked at the top 4 teams in the league as they appear to be the cream of the crop and I figured out where they are in terms of courts won per match.  I have to do that as everyone plays 9 matches for the season but we play 10.  Well I was pretty happy with my figures.  Two teams are averaging 2.25 court wins per match and two are averaging 2.2.  We are one of the 2.2 ones.  That is a huge jump from last year.  Now it is true that we are only half finished with the season and we have yet to play some of the better teams so time will tell but for now it is fun.  One never knows.  We may finish in the top 4 or we may end up below that but what the heck, enjoy the moment right?

Terry and I are looking at a pretty quiet weekend.  There is a Valentine tennis round robin thing today and we will not take that in.  I may get back into a book that I started a week ago but have not touched it the last few days.  Oh, I could do some work in the garage IF I have the energy.  However for now it is all in the "maybe" stage!

It is February 15, 1958

Dave and I wake up about the same time.  It was light enough for me to see my breathe as I exhale into the cold morning bedroom air.  With a bit of light coming through the window I could see the nails in the ceiling covered with frost.  Did I really want to get up?  It was Saturday so no school but I had a feeling that Dad had some things for us to do.  Yesterday when I forked hay out of the hay barn for the cows the supply of hay kind of told me Dad would have a job for us today.

Finally I jumped out of bed, into my pants and grabbed my shirt as I hurried downstairs.  Mom was up, as she seemed to always be, and she reminded me that she would have pancakes and venison sausage AFTER we finished milking.  Right after me Dave was downstairs as well.  With both of us milking it would not take long so off we went to the barn with steps in a new dusting of snow.  We had kept the cows in the barn over night so milking was just a matter of getting the kickers on two of the cows and then settling down to squirk the cats and milk!  Almost in record time we finished and were in the entry way of the house pouring the milk into the separator.  We would even have fresh morning cream for our pancakes.  Now life pretty much does not get any better than this.  Fresh cream and chokecherry syrup on buttermilk cakes and then a side of venison!  

I was hoping Dad would decide he needed some extra sleep BUT no dice.  Before we finished he was dressed and out of the bedroom.  AND it was no surprise that he said we needed to get TWO racks of hay today.  One was needed in the haybarn for the calves and milk cows and the other would be used for spreading hay in the barnyard for the rest of the cows.  Joan, Dave and I had our day planned out even before I could think of Lincoln Logs and card games.  With a new coating of snow maybe there would be enough to sled down the hill just behind the outhouse!

So much of our day was decided.  Dave walked to the shop to get the Ford tractor.  We hitched the hay wagon up and headed to the alfalfa field near Rollof's.  I should add that Helen was too little to help BUT she wanted to be in the picture!  The first load was brought home and we forked it into the haybarn.  We felt we had worked kind of hard so we needed a break.  You could guess that Mom knew us pretty well and had a treat for us when we got into the house.  After, maybe too long of a break, we ventured out again for the second load.  That load would stay in the hay rack and maybe last 2 or 3 days.  Each morning we would pull the hay rack out into the barnyard and fork over hay for the cows.  By noon we were done for the day but knew it would be necessary to repeat the job by mid week.  As we hurried into the house after our second load Dave and I decided we had enough of the outdoors for the day so the Touring Cards came out and we entertained ourselves with games and puzzles the rest of the day.

Time to sign off this morning.  I have one more cup of FP and that will help me settle into the couch with my book.