Here we are at Saturday, February 6th!

 TERRY

It is now past 10 AM and Terry is finished with the paper and doing fairly well today.  Not any news on Terry as we are here at home enjoying the day.  She did say that she WANTS to start walking with the walker more in the house and that is a very good thing.  She has had a couple of evenings now where she is throwing up and I do not know what that is about but will keep a log of what is happening and will see if that continues.  As for now "one day at a time".

Grandson Henry had a BB game last night and John sent the link so I could watch it.  I spent at least 30+ minutes on the computer with NO luck so finally gave up.  I tried this morning and presto it came up right away!  I watched the entire game and Trinity had a great game as Henry was pretty much the link that made things happen.  I did not keep track of stats but I am guessing he had 15+ points, double digit rebounds and some steals.  They won going away with a score of something like 52-22.  He was way more aggressive last night which for him is very good.  At 6"4" and muscle to spare he used his body to go to the basket which was really fun to see.  I do not know if the most fun is watching him play or as he plays it brings back wonderful memories of my playing days a LONG time ago.  Oh but then with that I also get into the memories of the cheerleaders!!!  I still can hear the cheer, "Carmen Carmen he's our man, if he can't do it nobody can"!!!!  Well it is not a terrible thing for OLD men to have memories!!!!!  I may add the there were games when Carmen could do it but then there were games when he could NOT!

I have been on kind of a roll.  I now have 20 cards finished with only 20 to go.  The difficult part is finding pictures that are good enough for the cards.  I will hopefully get another 5+ done today.  I have kind of taken care of the ones where the pictures were easy to find.  Now it is on to the ones where I may have to search for a bit for the picture.  It will get finished by the end of this month.

Sargent Central High School

Sargent Central was THE item in my life from August 25, 1961 to May 27 of 1965.  The beginning was the first day of football practice as a freshman and the ending was graduation as a senior.  In those about 1200 days my mind was often on Sargent Central.  Now most of that was GOOD but I admit that there were times and events that I was not that crazy about!  Perhaps a few of the highlights were:

• Just being able to join football as a freshman
• Our undefeated freshman basketball team
• Our co-championship football team of the fall of 1963 and then our trip to watch the Vikings play.  Well the school bus ride to and from in the same day was not so great!
• Our basketball trip to the state tourney in the winter of 1964.
• Our band trip in May of 1964 when we marched in the Indy 500 raceway.
• Our 12 or so band trips in the fall to take in homecomings at colleges were always fun
• It was fun to be a class officer all 4 years.
• I would say my desire to have a special friend during those years was not the best thing in the world but then I always have wanted/needed someone to be with.  One can say that is good or one can say that is not so good but one takes what is there and does the best one can!
• Of ALL the things that I did during high school there is NO doubt that football was the most fun during the 4 years.  I would say that I am NOT one to like a fight but the tackling in football was just so much fun!  

BUT as I sit here in Naples 2300 miles from Sargent Central I am thankful for high school.  I know many kids graduate and say high school was not a good time but for me it was a grand time, most of the time!!  Brother Ronald died during the fall of my senior year and that did put a damper on much of that year but then as we all know family comes and goes, friends come and go and life moves on without a hitch.  As devastating as Ronald's death was it kind of brought me into the adult world of "life is NOT all fun and games and one just has to make the best of what comes".  It perhaps gave me some insight and grace to deal with adversity when it happened as life evolved.

Well I think I have said enough for today.  My FP is long gone and now there are cards to make and a wonderful wife to care for.