The first Friday in September 2020

 TERRY

Terry has a doctor appt today at 10:30.  We have seen nothing new over the last few days.  We are still expecting and hopeful that this month will bring new health into her body and that she will be able to begin to walk again.  We will do all we can to make it happen.  

Not much new today.  Here we are looking at the beginning of Labor Day weekend and we do not have anything planned.  There were many many years when this weekend was the last of summer.  AND for many years it was the last of the "free" days as school would get into full swing on Tuesday.

In the middle of my blog Terry woke up and we decided to go for a walk before her doctor appt.  So here I am back and it is about 2:30.  

Temp is 95 today and I think they said it would be a record high.  We got back from the doctor and it was time for lunch so I made tune/dill pickle/salad dressing sandwich which we really like.  We by the wild caught tune packed not in oil and it is very good.  Of course that is almost the limit of my culinary skills!  I went to the grocery store to get some things and am home again.  I rubbed Terry's legs and am now ready to finish this and post.

I think Kim is coming this afternoon and will make a tator tot hot dish for dinner.  I told her that was a good idea but I already had my "hot dish".  

Once again this is a bit short.  Not a lot to say.  As I write Terry is taking a short nap.  I am hoping PT comes this afternoon but have not heard so that may not happen.  Anyway there is a lot one can do so will sign off for now.  I finished my FP a long time ago so!

SCHOOL OPENING OF 2006--September  5th

The morning sun was barely above the tree line as I drove the short distance to High Park Junior High.  I had in my mind that this would be the last year of teaching for me.  I had been in Deaf Education for 37 years and really I knew I could teach for another two years at least.  BUT that was not going to happen.  Gail had been sick and I just had this feeling that I needed/wanted to spend time with her.  With teaching, coaching etc that just was hard to do.  I had checked into retirement and knew that by retiring at the end of the year I would qualify for full benefits.  There was also the issue of my colleague whom I shared a room with.  She had been more than a pain in the side since she came to Highland Park two years ago.  It seemed that she had decided that she would not like me and it came across in many ways.  I was not willing to continue my career in education working in the same room as she was in.  Gail and I had decided that we could manage our finances if I retired but only if we or I did some things to supplement our income.  For the fall of 2007 and 2008 we worked the State Fair and had a great time and earned some needed money as well.  Gail went on to then work the 2009 census as well.  So I arrive at Highland Park on the 5th and had in front of me a book with the count down to the end of school which would be June 15th 2007.  The year proved to me that we had made the correct decision as relations during the school year were less than great.  My colleague even managed to get one of the students to go to the administrators and tell them that I was a poor teacher.  I will not get into that!  Anyway I remember that day as if it were yesterday.  It truly was the beginning of the end of a mostly fun career.  Sometimes when I sit back and think about our family leaving Devils Lake and the School for the Deaf I almost get regrets mixed into my mind but then I look at the over all picture and am very happy with our decisions and how things worked out.  So here I am today.  Thirteen years away from the fall of 2007 which is the first fall of my retirement.  Now my life is very different.  I am one blessed man.  I have a great life at the age of 73.  I have a wife who is wonderful and there is little to worry about for the time.  I am hopeful that Terry will get well and that all the kids and grandkids will be OK in this time of Covid-19.  I am so thankful for a full and long life.  I so so miss brother Dave and yes I also miss Ronald and Janet who left this earth a long time ago.  I am blessed and thankful  for Glorine, John, Judi, Ron, Joan, Marlys and Helen.  Even tho I miss those who have left us I am so thankful for those of use who are still living a full life and giving glory to our Lord.  I am hopeful for many more years and I look forward to more reunions with family.