April 25th, we count down to Saturday, May 1st!

 TERRY

Terry has a 10:30 appointment at the doctor today.  I do not know how long it will be as she will have a scan.  After that I need to make an appointment with Dr. Vickers to talk about what the scan shows us IF anything.  As far as I know now, that is it for the week.  

Terry's daughter Kim came for a short visit yesterday and I think we will see her again today.  As far as I know she will fly back to Atlanta tomorrow.  Not sure if she will come here or if we will go out to eat.  Terry did talk about going out but we will wait and see what happens.

As for me it is kind of same old, same old.  I continue to try and be careful how much I walk around as I am trying to get that darn right foot well.  It seems a bit better but then there are times I step maybe a bit different and it hurts.  I would say that it is not fun getting older but then when I think of the alternative I have NO complaints.  Sometimes when I think of getting older, having aches and pains etc I think of John Mouw's dad Tracy.  The story goes like this.  From a young age Tracy had some kind of a horse accident I think and he had one stiff leg.  Well it did not seem to prevent him from living life and doing well but as all of us as he got older he had some health issues.  Well he decided that he would go deer hunting with John, Dad, Dave and I in the North Dakota Badlands in western ND.  From my version of the story his wife Edith did not want him to go as he did have a heart condition and "what would happen if he had a heart attack out in the hills?".  Well Tracy's response to that was he could not think of a better place to die than out in the hills with the deer!!!  Well I admit I may have some of the details wrong but I think I got the jest of the story!  In that same hunt I have another story.  

It was around noon and we had not shot or seen any deer all morning.  We were back at the truck eating lunch near the river.  The water was flowing fairly fast and a large log came floating down the river.  Tracy thought that would be a good target to see if he could hit it.  He shot and we could see he hit high and to the right.  He shot again and he hit in the same place.  I think he shot several times and each time he hit in the same area.  He then decided the gun did not shot straight!!!  We had a wonderful time on the hunt and Tracy was a great guy to be with.  I still can see the sparkle in his eyes and hear his laugh!

I have not done much work lately so I needed to convince myself that there have been times when I did get something done!  Here are pictures of the kitchen windows on Niles Ave before and after.  The top of course is a picture of the old windows where I needed to put screen/storm windows on each season. I think a person even may be able to see the glaze on the top windows where it is falling out etc.  On the new windows there is NO glaze and the storm/screen is one unit and needs not be painted.  The house has a total of 31 windows of which 26 can be opened and closed.  ALL 26 that can be opened are new and the other five are piano windows in the living room and den.  They have new storms but they do not open.  Enough history for this morning BUT I got my point across, I have not always been lazy!  I am thinking I probably should list the work that has been done on the house in the last 10 years but then I think I would have to list all that work that is not finished!  Enough

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"After his discharge, Duane returned to Kempton and the oil business.  He married Dolores Severtson in 1949.  They have three children.  The couple met at a dance in Larimore in a hall over the Red Owl store.  As she tells it, "There were eight of us single women teaching there in Northwood that year, and the whole bunch of us had gone that night.  Duane asked me to dance, and a year later we married."

We have about an hour before we leave for Terry's Dr. appointment so I will enjoy the last sip of FP and sign off for the day.