A missed day but not much new

 TERRY

Terry is doing about the same.  She has been having some stomach cramps and that is concerning.  She continues to have a good appetite and is using the walker a couple times a day.  More and more she seems most comfortable in bed and not on the couch.  Over the last week or so it has become usual for her to spend maybe a couple hours on the couch but she says she is most comfortable in her bed.  I think that is really only based on comfort and not for any other reason.  She has her last scheduled therapy session this afternoon and then next Tuesday will be evaluated again.  

I did not blog yesterday and in the back of my mind I thought that was the case but often about the time I was going to do something a need came up.  Anyway that is my excuse!

I do have tennis at 7:30 this morning and then will take Terry to therapy leaving at 12:40 and returning at 3:15 or so.  That is all I have planned for the day.  It sounds like not much at all but for some reason I have been so tired during the day.  I was able to take an hour nap yesterday but that did little for my tiredness.  I do not sleep all that well at night BUT last night I slept through the night and did not wake until 6:00.  That is most unusual lately.  Terry woke at about 6:15 and said she needed help.  She thought things needed changing but she was in good shape.  As I write she is reading the paper.  I am not sure "why' but in the past she would maybe take an hour and a half to read it and lately she is usually finished in less than an hour.

I do not know why this story came to mind this morning but it is short so here goes.  

As I was pouring cream into my FP at 6:30 this morning my Mom came to mind.  After Dad sold the cattle and we did not milk any more Mom still needed/wanted her cream.  There was a family living on a farm a mile and a half west of ours and they sold cream.  Mom absolutely loved their cream.  She would drive over there at least once a week and come home with a quart of HEAVY HEAVY cream.  At the time I did not drink coffee but Mom loved to put cream in her Sanka instant that came to the table with foam on the top!  I would take the opportunity to once again use cream on cereal which I had for breakfast from time to time.  One really had to spoon the cream out when Mom first brought it home.  To once again have cream for breakfast instead of milk was a treat.  I have never figured out what kind of cows those farmers had but of course you do NOT need to spoon out the heavy cream that you buy today.  I still can see Mom, with her wonderful smile, spooning cream out and thinking that it was as good as a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

I think I need to find some things to keep my mind more busy.  I should perhaps get a good book as I have NOT read one book this winter so far.  BUT what is happening is my mind wanders into chapters that I should not go into so often.  Thoughts of Dave, of Ronald, of Janet, of Dad and of Mom come to mind way way too often.  I do not know if those thoughts are a blessing or something else as one gets older.  I would say that 95% of the time the thoughts are of good times, of happy times but still I feel it is not good to have TOO much time to think about "things of the past".  I would say that multiple times a day something comes up that reminds me of Dave.  The memories range from golf in Fargo to the harvest field at home to talks in Jamestown to a hundred other things.  Of course I cherish memories but what the heck I do NOT want to live in them MUCH of the time.  I want to live in the moment and make the most of life today!  

No here it is 7:05 and time to dress for tennis and get to the courts.  It is Thursday so the play will be with the guys I am with twice a week.  It will be fun but not quit as fun as the other days when the play is a notch or two higher.  My FP is still in my favorite cup so will heat it up when I get home about 9:10.