TERRY
As I write Terry is still resting. I think she is kind of awake. I think we may try her using the walker today. I need to strip the bed and wash the bedding so it would be a good time for her to walk from the bedroom to the living room. Before she fell she was doing that pretty much on her own but IF it happens today I think I will put the belt around her waist just in case she needs some support. Tomorrow it will be to the pool and then to the doctor so she needs to rest up for sure today.
SOME PICTURES FROM THE PAST AGAIN TODAY
One could almost say this was John's first girl friend but of course that would not be true but he surely liked his skating teacher. I think he thought she was much better than Mom or Dad!
That was kind of the beginning of biking for those two. Both raced in many many bike races when they were in high school and college AND I might add they did very very well!
I drove a cement truck for Lake Ready Mix for a few summers. Here Mom had brought the boys out to Fort Totten where I was pouring cement for a new home. The boys thought it was a BIG truck. I would take maybe a dozen trips to the Fort each summer. It was a sad sad situation. One would pour cement for a new home, built by the government, one summer and then when you came back the next summer for another new home the one you poured for the year before would be in great disrepair. Often some of the windows would be broken and maybe the door off!
Here I am with the three boys in August of 1973 as that is the month Aaron was born. It looks like I have been on my knees a bit too much!
I think this was the only time the three boys were on the same soccer team as this is grade school and the boys were 8, 6, and 4th grade. Little did we know that they all would be part of a high school state championship team in different years. John and Travis in 1986 and 1987 and Aaron in 1991. As their sister Cynthia, in grade 2, said in gym class when the teacher asked if anyone had been to a soccer game she replied, I have been to hundreds"! All 4 kids were on traveling teams in the summer and in the summer of 1987 I counted up the number of games we attended and it was more than 100 just in that summer.
Here are pictures of the same sign taken 43 years apart with Terry in the top photo and myself with John in the bottom photo. I see where they put a National Park sign on it later. Not sure why the sign was not up in 1971 as it became a national park in 1947.
I just have to add something about Minneapolis. They have any interesting city council. Several of them want to defund the police department. Not sure what would happen then. Now they have passed a new ordinance for the city parks. Now both men and women can enjoy themselves in the park while going topless! It will be interesting to see who visits the parks next spring!!!
A little bit about the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas during the time we were in grade school. It was "MOM TIME" so to speak. She had full responsibility for the church Christmas Program and she loved doing it. It gave her a chance to be creative and also to play all those Christmas songs which she dearly loved. The scene was pretty much the same year after year. Sunday school kids would be dressed up in clothes from the past and the Christmas story was told. It never was a question of would you be in the program it only was a question of what would you be. There were angels, shepherds, Mary and Joseph and other people as well. For some reason I NEVER was given the part of being an angel! Of course the "choice" parts were Mary and Joseph. IF I remember correctly the only thing I ever played was a shepherd. I think Mom did not want to have people think she favored her kids. I am sure it had nothing to do with the fact that Chuckie and I talked all the time! Well what was one to do if you go to the church on a Saturday afternoon when you could be playing marbles or Touring cards or playing table tennis on the kitchen table!!! I mean for kids at that age to sit in a church pew and just watch--it was not going to happen. Anyway Mom did a great job and when the program took place at church Mom received much praise and thanks which she richly deserved. I should not admit it but I was always happy when the program was finished for the year and we could go back to our regular Sunday School lessons. There chuckie and I would duel Carol Jean, Pasty and Gay in the lesson quiz of the day. I want to say we won most of the time but then can a person really remember 60+ years back??? As I look back on those days they were really special even tho as they happened it seemed boring. I actually think the huge thing that came out of that was Mom got to do her thing which did not happen very often. She so wanted to play the organ in church but that belonged to someone else and Mom could only do it as a fill in. Not sure I ever recovered from the fact that Dave and Jim G got to pull the bell most of the time for the beginning of church. Chuckie and I were younger so we seldom got to do it. I mean it was fun. You would pull it really hard and then as the bell swung and you held onto the rope it would pull you off your feet. Life, as a little kid, does not get much better than that.
So here it is about 8:15 and I do not hear anything from Terry yet even though I am pretty sure she is awake. I have gotten the paper and it is on the kitchen table waiting for her. I pulled out the sports and read it in about 10 minutes! I am on my last cup of FP so will sign off for the day. May everyone have a blessed Advent as today is the first Sunday. May you be drawn closer to the Lord. May you and family have good health and on the other side of the scale may you have a great Christmas with the presents that you desire!
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