CARMEN LEE--LIFE IS NOT A VACATION, IT IS A JOURNEY

 TERRY

Terry is currently watching the Supreme Court on TV.  Not much new today.  I am waiting to hear from a phone call I made yesterday to see if we can again get therapy in as that has been lacking for some time now.  It is a matter of wait and see!  A PT is coming this afternoon to evaluate how Terry is doing.

Daughter Kim will come over this afternoon.  She drove down from Atlanta yesterday.  I THINK she may make dinner for tonight!  IF she does I promise it will be several steps above the tuna sandwichs that I make!  I am hoping she can come over tomorrow morning as I have tennis at 8:00 and then I NEED to get a haircut!

ICONS OF THE FARM

Yes, this shows the outhouse WAY past it's prime BUT it certainly was an icon on the farm and IMPORTANT part of the farm when all of us were growing up.  I am guessing that it fell into disrepair after Mom and Dad had an indoor bathroom installed which of course was AFTER I left home.  You can not see this but on the left side of the outhouse was a board that a person would put down when there was business to take care of.  The sign said, "BUSY".  There, of course, was a door that one would not really have to close as the sign said it all.  It had three holes and then there was plenty of space on the bench for the catalogs that were used for paper!  No, it was not used in the winter as we had a 5 gallon pail upstairs! But in the summer it was busy a lot!  Often Dave and I would do our thing at the same time and that was always a time to talk about life and yes it often went to "what will life be like after the farm?"  I will not get into the catalog pictures to share which pictures we would look at but just remember we were boys!  I can remember one time that Dad changed locations but just a short ways from the original one.  It sat near the fence to the pasture and just down the hill from it was our rock dam that caught fish in the spring when the water was up!  I would say that this picture kind of tells a lot about our farm.  Not ordinary, not modern, but it was a place that fostered a lot of love!