Saturday, April 10th, 2021

 TERRY

Terry is now pretty independent at home in terms of moving around the house.  The wheelchair has sat by the front door unused for several days.  She pretty much gets out of bed when ever she wants or needs to and uses the walker to get to where she wants.  I commented yesterday that she hardly needs me but she did say that was not true!!!  Now I feel we need to get outside more.  I am sure she is NOT ready to get outside and walk with the walker as she is not that steady on her feet nor is she that strong but I feel that is coming.  BUT as I do say in my mind still, it is one day at a time.

Yesterday I did something I had not done for some time.  In fact I think I had golfed twice in the last maybe 8 years or so.  Karl invited me to play with him and Scott at Spanish Wells Club which is about two miles from us.  It looks really nice and the price would make it seem REALLY nice but I would say it is a fun golf course but not upscale at all.  Well I take that back.  If I were to look back on my college days in Fargo and think about the courses Dave and I played I guess Spanish Wells is upscale.  Well again the Fargo days are LONG LONG ago so what can I say.  Anyway we teed off at 12:30 and finished the first 9 holes about two hours later.  Karl and Scott planned to play 18 holes but I felt I should not be away from Terry for 4+ hours so I parked my cart after 9 holes.  Now I would say in my YOUNGER days I was NOT an accomplished golf but I was above a duffer, I think!  Well yesterday it took me about the first 4 or 5 holes to remember SOME things about golf and at that point I was not embarrassed from then on.  I did NOT keep track of my score as I did not want to be depressed BUT I played hole #9, a 400 yard hole, in 4 strokes which was par.  A nice way to end things.  Maybe I should add that was my only par BUT I am guessing I played the last 4 or 5 holes in maybe one or two over on each hole.  I do know one thing I have to do IF I play again.  My driver grip made my hands black which says I need to regrip it IF I am to play again.  The 4th guy who played with us did mention that 15 of the 18 holes a person has to take water into consideration.  IF I remember correctly I had one shot in the water.  It was a fun outing and I am hoping to play again sooner than a few years from now!  I should add that one is required to rent a cart on that course so I had my own cart which in some ways brought back memories of Servant Camp where I always rented three golf carts.  Two for the directors and one for the runners.

So Terry and I are now into mid-morning of Saturday and we really have nothing planned for the weekend.  I do need to go to the store today and maybe this morning is the best time.  

Here is more from the book I have been reading.  A fun read for sure.

"It was a tournament at Hettinger, and at the end of the game it was all tied up.  Bud recalls.  We played two overtimes, and it was still tied up.  Nobody could make a bucket!  I guess the officials got sick of it, so they flipped a coin and we won!"

"Ione recalled attending rural school.  In my first, second, and third year we had a teacher who was pretty religious.  She read out of the Bible every morning.  We always prayed.  Every morning.  That only lasted for about three years."

THIS IS ABOUT RIDING THE FREIGHT TRAIN

Way back it was not uncommon for guys to grab onto the train and go wherever.

 

"One time we were riding on a load of telephone poles--logs, highline poles--on a flat car, and when he put on the brakes, or whatever happened, the logs shifted.  Almost pushed us off the front.  And the bums, they come sneaking around there to see if we were alive yet.  They said, That will teach you.  Don't ride in front of the logs"

Grandpa Saunders had stories of riding the rails.  

Wow here it is 11:15 as I had several interruptions this morning.  One was putting a screen back on over the pool as I looked out at the pool and there were two doves in the screened pool! I opened the side door, shut the shutter that separates the pool from the house and then walked around the house thinking this could take a long time to get those birds out.  When I got to the pool the doves were nowhere to be seen.  Maybe they knew they were in trouble!  I then took time to put the screen in place again.  I thought this could be a long process but 15 minutes later I had it in place!  Of course it should have been in place weeks ago but then time flies, right?

The FP is gone and I think I need to head to the store for a couple of things.