I took a deep breath and realized September is more than a third over!

 TERRY

Terry will finish the week with a doctor appointment this morning.  I am expecting it to be not long so I am hoping we will be home by noon.  I am also hoping that she may have PT this afternoon.  IF she does I am not sure what they will do as she has that left foot with a fracture on the outside.  I just feel that she needs the activity and I also think it helps lift her spirits when a therapist comes in to work with her.  We will see how the day plays out.

I had expected to play tennis this morning but Lee called to say he could not find a fourth player so that is out.  That means I will not get on the courts this week at all.  Disappointing but then life can be that way from time to time.  

I had a NOT fun time at the Honda Dealership yesterday.  I do not like to be away from Terry for long periods of time and that is especially true if I am away from Tarpon Cove,  Well it was time for an oil change and the dealership is about 20 minutes away.  I left home at 9:30 for a 10:00 appointment.  I arrived and there were two lines.  One sign was "service lane" and the other sign was "express" lane.  I did not know which one I should go into so I stopped about 25 feet from both.  I sat there for close to 15 minutes and nobody came to help.  So I went inside and the guy said it made no difference.  Well I asked him how long an oil change and tire rotation would take and he said an hour and fifteen minutes.  I asked if it could be somewhat shorter as my wife was home in bed and she could not walk so I needed to be home as soon as possible.  He said he would put a rush on the service.  After an hour and twenty minutes I finally asked when it would be finished.  The guy went back into the bay and said it would be 10 minutes.  Finally as my phone timer showed 1:46 I got into the car.  As I got on the road Terry called to see when I would be home.  I will make sure I do something different next time.  Terry was OK at home but still that was way too long.

Not much else to write about.  

This Bird of Paradise flower is one of 4 next to our pool screen.  They are very pretty.

Lake Tewauken at sunset

Lake Tewauken of the PAST

Lake Tewauken

Lake Tewauken today--no boat ramp when I was growing up!

For the sake of writing we will call Lake Tewauken a classic example of what many people may call PROGRESS!!!  These pictures are not ones that I took but they are of the lake.  In the 50s and 60s Lake Tewauken was a a gathering place for summer and winter fun.  There was ice fishing in the winter and in the summer there was fishing, boating and swimming.  Today, after the US government bought up the farms surrounding the lake  by using eminent domain, it is a wildlife refuge.  I do not think you can swim in it any more.  There is fishing and the surrounding area is for wildlife.

A FAR cry from the Sunday afternoons of swimming, water skiing and just having fun.  As I have driven around the lake shore on the east side ,which is where we used to go, there is very little signs of picnics etc.  I am sure that the ducks, geese, deer etc have a great place but for a lake to be the ONLY lake for miles and miles in North Dakota it seems kind of sad.  However I am so grateful that it was used for recreation when I was growing up just a half mile south of the lake.