Kind of a busy day

 TERRY

Terry has two things going today.  First at 10:45 she has a nerve test at Dr. Vickers office and then sometime in the afternoon a person will come in to evaluate Terry for OT and PT as we are changing companies.  We will see how things play out but I have new hope as we get ready to start OT and PT with a different company.  They seem to be good but time will tell.  Terry has decided that she is ready to have the feeding tube removed and I am hoping that can happen in the next week or so.  Well maybe in the next two weeks.  I have not used the feeding tube the last two nights so we will see how things go.  Really one should go without the feeding for some time before the tube is removed as we need to be certain that she can eat enough to not lose weight.  Just call me Dr. Lee for the time bringing😐😐.  Actually we did have a PA in several weeks ago and she said we certainly could do some of the decision making on our own BUT of course getting the tube removed is actually a surgery and we will have to schedule that.

Kim came down for a week and came over twice yesterday.  She brought lunch and then made dinner which was very good.  She will come over for lunch today as we will probably be back from the doctor about 11:30.

I will bike over to the courts and play tennis at 8 this morning.  I had scheduled a 30 minute lesson for 9:45 but will cancel that as I will need to get back here and get ready to take Terry to the doctor.

FARM ICONS

Putting the house aside there was nothing and no place that was more deep in my soul than the barn.  There was just so so much work and fun that revolved around the barn.  As you look at this picture the barn of our youth was NOT like this.  After I left home Dad put the gas tank where we used to pull the hay rack up and throw hay into the barn.  Then he decided he wanted a garage for the car so he cut part of the wall out for that.  Given this was many years AFTER the barn had been used for much of the livelihood of the Lee family.  So I guess I should not be too upset.  Dave said that when the farm burned he had stored several things in it as they had moved to Iowa.  He said he had a brand new radial arm saw that had never been out of the box and it all went up in smoke.  Anyway the barn prehaps helped create more memories than anything else on the farm.  Some of them:

• Lying flat on my back on the far side of the roof and dreaming of the future was a favorite pasttime of mine
• Shoting sparrows at night as they lined the roof boards was a fun activity.  I am guessing many went past the sparrows and through the roof!
• If one wants to get sentimental one can remember milking the cows in the warmth of the barn in the winter with the lantern hanging on the nail behind the cows and squirting milk into the mouth of the cats was an art.
• throwin the rubber baseball against the south wall and fielding it like a major league player was so so much fun.
• Playing in the hay barn that was stacked high with bails OR just loose hay.
• playing tag with Dave on the beams above the calf pens.
• Cleaning out the SE pen after Dave or I forgot to turn off the water and we had to scoop out water!
• Playing with the young calves that were penned up after we took them away from their mother so we could milk them.
• Just climbing the light pole that one can see in the picture.  NO ladder was necessary.
• Playing with the MANY cats that we always had and for sure when the babies were born.
• AND AND AND

It goes on and on as the memories are forever years and years after fire destroyed the entire farm.  Enough for this morning as I need to get to tennis.