Oh my we are close to mid September!!!

TERRY

I am NOT a  happy camper so to speak.  NO therapy for Terry last week.  After I called Friday they said we would have PT Saturday but no show.  Sometimes one wonders about health care.  I would say Terry is holding her own.  Yesterday was Saturday and we just stayed home.  Today will be the same but am hoping for more therapy this week.  I will be on the phone tomorrow AM.  As I write Terry is either sleeping or just resting as I hear nothing.  She often does not sleep well at night so sometimes she lingers in bed in the morning.

It almost appears as if we are in the middle of a monsoon.  I emptied the rain gauge last night.  Here it is 9:20 AM and I just emptied the gauge again as it had 3 3/4" in it.  Weather says we are to have rain ALL morning.  I think it may be the result of hurricane season close to us but not sure.  As I look out it is almost dark and of course wet.

Sundays are often "think back days" so here is Cayuga Grade School I think in the year 1960/61.  Mrs. Fox, on the right, taught 5th and 6th while Mrs. Odenbret on the left taught 7th and 8th.  I wonder how many of these young people are not with us today.  Of course I have not kept up with most but I do know that at least 7 are not living today.  These kids today would be ages 69-73.

There are MANY stories of years gone past both long ago and some not so much.  Some are things that just affected me while others I was not involved in at all.  Some are:

• One boy, as an adult, was involved in a very serious accident as he tried to be a good samaritan.  The last I heard he was in a nursing home and bed ridden.
• One of the gals who was popular and outgoing had a terrible thing happen in her family and she became almost a shut-in as a result.
• One gal was the unfortunate player in a serious child/adult situation.
• AND one can guess that there are ones who are liberal+++ and others who are conservative+++
• Some went on to become very successful in their work while others struggled always.  I know that there were those who spent some time locked up.
• Some still live close to home while others ventured far away.  I would say the majority have stayed in North Dakota or close.
• I would say that IF one looked back at the grade school days and high school days and THEN looked at the same people today you would not recognize many.  By that I say they grew up shy or kind of loners but today are outgoing.
• I was going to count the kids in our room, the 7th and 8th grade room BUT I admit I cannot really remember many of the kids who were one grade behind us.  I just cheated and looked up in the high school year books.  That year we had 8 in our grade, 8th, and 6 in the 7th grade which means we had 15 in our classroom.
• Let's say this picture was taken in the spring of 1961 which would mean the students would range in age from 14-11.  Well I am guessing here the age range was maybe 11-16 IF you get my mind set!
• I would say that for myself these days of my life were good.  I do know that was not true for many of the kids.  On the farm we were money poor but rich in family while many in the picture were money poor and also very poor in family.  As I look at the group I doubt that any of the kids were rich in money but of course some had more than others.

Enough for this rainy dark Sunday.  I have finished my FP, which by the way did not exist in my life way back in 1961, and I am ready to clean a bit and get the kitchen ordered!