April 28, 2021

 TERRY

Terry is the same.  As I write she has the papers in bed with her and is reading up a storm.  She continues her treks to and from the living room doing it all on her own with the walker.  There are no doctor appointments in sight for now.  It would be so so nice if Dr. Vickers office would call and say he has a cancellation and could Terry come in but I do not know how often that happens.  So it is just wait and see AND take one day at a time.

Karl sent an email yesterday saying Rusty canceled on Friday and did I want to take his place.  I told him I would give it a try.  I am still trying to keep off my feet as much as possible as that right foot heals and it does feel much better so I will give it a shot.  IF I can play 90 minutes my game will be rusty so we will see how things come out.  

I actually did get some work done yesterday.  I talked to the pool person as he came over to look at the pool repair job.  He said he would order the material and the job should be on his schedule late this week or next week.  That will be nice.  Also Terry and I have some money in investments where you have to take out some each year after a certain age.  I took care of that and the letters are in the mail today.  I also got half of the items that I need to try and clean our travertine floors so when the other items come I can work on the floors.  Little by little some things are getting done.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"Joe Simon has fond memories of teacher Gunhilda Crain.  "Good lady, just love the heck out of her.  Tougher than a drill sergeant.  She chewed my rear end out to the day she died---she used that ol' gnarled finger:You could have been valedictorian and whatever." She insisted you learn whether you wanted to or not.  And she taught you, and that's all there was to it.  And if she caught somebody out of line, she would come upside their head with a book.  But everybody that got rapped had it coming, and they didn't tell their folks.  I was quick enough to duck it, so she never did hit me."

"Joe and Pauline's first child was born July 19, 1950.  Their last child, number 21, was born September 23, 1971…….According to son, Joseph, they butchered four to five pigs and about three beef a year."

Here it is 8:20 and about time to sign off.  I still have most of a cup of FP left so will linger on the computer for a time before I try to find some work to do!