TERRY
Here it is mid-afternoon and once again I am late with my blog. Terry is doing OK today. She was a bit tired after her WT yesterday. BUT the news is they scheduled her for another thirty days which I am most thankful for as I did not expect they would. I do think that next week we need to get more serious and get in our pool. I do not think it will be too difficult for Terry to do that. We will see. As for now we will enjoy the weekend coming up.
I had tennis this morning and perhaps had the most fun in a match for a LONG time. I played with 3 guys I often play with and they are great but the back and forth play was outstanding I felt and a lot of fun. I was on the winning side in the first match and the losing side in the second match but really it made little difference as it was back and forth with mostly good shots and just just a lot of fun.
I have been in kind of a "down" mood the last few days. Don't know why but it is what it is. I have had many many flash backs of Dave and I. As time goes by I more and more realize that growing up with little money did not mean our growing up was not fun. The farm was fun (WELL OUT DATED BUT STILL A FUN PLACE TO GROW UP) and provided a foundation for life. Perfect, far from it but really I am so thankful for it and appreciate it to this day. As I sat on the couch today thinking about life then and life now I had some of these thoughts:
- I admit that there were times Mom said she thought Dave and I would kill each other but really I think those were few and far between.
- Town kids had their play areas and we had Lake Tewaukon. Town kids had their ball fields and we had our corncrib as a back stop for our ball field. Town kids had Bud's store to buy candy and we had Mom's cookies to enjoy. Town kids had free time to do whatever and we could play as we picked rocks. Town kids went up town to buy milk and we had Betsy and several other cows who gave us thick cream for cream and bread with chokecherry jelly on. Well we did have something that most town kids did not---work much of the time.
- Of course any time I think about the farm I remember playing cowboys and Indians with guns we made out of scrap wood using the saw and vise.
- AND yes the days of walking to Lake Tewaukon to skate in the cold North Dakota winters.
- There were the days in 53-56 when we walked to Wood Lake School most of the time. A time to race, kick stones, throw at fence posts, try to hit a gopher with a rock and often in the winter a time to run and jump into the ditch filled with snow!
- There were ball games with Dave and Ricky who lived a half mile to the north.
- There were days of shooting black birds in the trees by the shop and outhouse and then carrying them to feed to the cats
- On sunny summer days we could bet on at least one snake sunny itselve on "snake rock" which was on the north side of the bend in the creek
- One can not forget walking to the bridge just east of the lake and jumping off into the water again and again.
- I remember driving the Ford tractor pretty much all day as Joan and Dave stacked the hay. My job was to drive around gathering up loose hay and dumping it on a pile that Dad would pick up with the Jayhawk stacker.
- AND one can not forget shooting buckets on the hoop Ronald helped us put up on the electric pole near the barn.
- Yes one of my favorite things to do was shimmy up the pole by the barn door and lie on the west side of the barn roof and dream. Dream of things far away in terms of miles and years.
- OK so I could go on and on but perhaps enough memories for today. I
I WILL END BY POSTING A PICTURE OF A WATERFALL NEAR THE HOUSE IN St. Paul
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