Here we are with two days left in April as we look at April 29, 2021

 TERRY

If you open my blog to see how Terry is it is same same.  I could say that there are tiny concerns in some areas.  Perhaps once a day she has a spell where she has dry heaves.  It does not last long and then it is back to normal so it should be OK.  Yesterday she did not go into the living room until late in the afternoon.  It is good if she goes 3 or 4 times a day as that does get her up and out of bed.  She continues to sleep well and for the most part she is awake all days.  Once in a while she may doze for a short time either in the morning or the afternoon.  As usual, as I write she has the Naples paper and the WSJ with her.  She did ask for a lettuce yesterday so I am thinking I need to go to the grocery store and get lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, some ham and maybe even croutons for a delicious lettuce today.  That is all for now.

I may go over to the courts for a short time this morning.  I have NOT been there for a long time as I sit home with a bum foot and a bum back.  I looked at the court schedule this morning.  Courts are at 7:30, 9:00 and 10:30.  Well there is play in the PM as well but usually not all the courts are busy then.  I see this morning there are 3 courts open at 7:30 and again 3 are open at 10:30. That means people are on the move going back up north.  As we get into mid May there will also be open courts at 9:00.  I think I mentioned yesterday that I will give play a try tomorrow so I will see how this foot is and back as well.

I did get some work done yesterday but of course it was not really work!  My go to place to buy golf clubs is a thrift store.  I had these two clubs that had grips on like the one on the left.  Each time I would use them my hands came off black!  I looked into getting them regripped and I just did not feel like spending $35 on a club that I had paid #3 for!  So my friend, Amazon.com, sent me three grips, glue etc so I was able to do them myself for about $12 a club.  Still one can question putting $12 into a $3 club BUT to buy a new driver can run you well into triple figures so I think I did OK.

No, I think I am going to ride my bike over to the courts at 9:00 and just watch for a while.  Sonia will be here at 9:00 so Terry should be OK. I may even ride around for a time as my exercise over the last two weeks has been NONE.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"Now, living on the farm by himself, Jerry mingles with the folks in town.  I get to the bowling alley about 6:30 every morning and have coffee with a few people.  It's kind of a ritual.  You have to talk to somebody, you know so you won't have to talk to yourself."

"At least twice a week, you find Patricia and Reynold at the farm where she grew up.  On the homeplace.  I have three brothers, bachelors, and my second oldest sister that's living. We go down there after church and have dinner and play cards.  About 25 show up every Sunday.  Last time we took hamburgers and buns, so more or less all we have for dinner is hamburgers and buns and wieners.  My mother's brother's kids come down after church, too.  Some Sundays we don't have church, so then we somethings go over anyway.  This Sunday we got home at 10 at night, just in time to watch the news."

As one can see I am enjoying the book.  I guess it brings back a lot of memories and of course one chooses to remember the good times, right?  like:

• egg sandwiches and dill pickles Sunday after church
• Sunday school every other Sunday with a quiz boys against girls
• playing ball against the south wall of the barn
• hitting the three golf balls, Arnie, Jack and Gary with Arnie always winning
• hiking up to Lake Tewaukon with an old fishing pole and a can of worms
• biking up to the lake and back all the while never touching the handle bars
• going out to the barn on my pogo stick to shut off the water 
• drowning out gophers in the pasture
• catching snakes on snake rock in the pasture
• shooting black birds and feeding them to the cats
• spending most of the summer breaking up the pig barn foundation and making the yard look nice for Mom
• playing ball against the corn crib with Dave and Ricky
• jumping off the Ford tractor in the hay field to kill a mouse
• etc etc etc etc

My FP is down to the last drop