Here we are half way through May of 2021

TERRY

Terry is pretty much the same and I am guessing things will stay this way for some time.  She continues to be able to do pretty much whatever she wants in the house as far as moving around BUT I would say the kitchen is one place she does not venture into.  She has already finished todays paper and is watching Saturday TV which is one of her favorite times to watch.

Well I am back to the days of swimming twice a day.  I actually like the water with NO salt but I know one needs chlorine or salt so that will change as the pool people come Monday and the salt will be put in.  I think the guy who fixed the pool did a nice job.  It will be interesting to see how the pool holds up as it now has been fixed three times.  I do not know but I suspect it is happening because we changed to salt BUT that is only a guess.  IF part of the finish starts to come away from the wall again I think it may be time to have the entire pool redone.  As for now I am hoping it holds for several years.

Terry and I have no plans for the weekend.  Sonia, who comes in to help two hours a day does not come on the weekends so the food is all mine for a couple of days.  I may be able to manage with my famous tuna sandwich, my pasta hot dish (Yes, Terry is my real hot dish!) and then maybe every couple of hours some homemade fudge and that may do it for the weekend!!!

I will NOT be on the tennis courts this weekend and I may just decide to not try to play again until a week from this coming Monday.  It does seem each day my foot feels somewhat better but then there are times when I just step a certain way and ouch but it is usually a tiny ouch.

It is the weekend so I don't even have the fun of seeing if my $1.98 of investments goes up or down!  I did decide that I will not buy either of these two bags that I saw in the Saturday WSJ!  The blue #5 on the left is $6,500 and the Prada #6 to the right is $1,270!  Just a tad over my budget FOR SURE.

I think I will share a couple of things from Dakota Attitude and then call it a day for writing.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"In the wintertime, we had no heat. (kind of like the Lee upstairs)  We would get up in the morning and grab our shoes and our coats and run barefoot over to the house where Mom and Dad lived.  You took a bath by age, youngest one first.  The bathwater was quite murky for the older ones."  The bath sounds kind of like our Saturday night baths on the farm growing up.  It was get the big tub in, fill it with water, everyone took a bath one at a time and then carry the water out and dump it.  I think at our house it was youngest LAST!

"Russell grew up on the farm near Butte that his Ukrainian immigrant father homesteaded in 1901.  Russell remembers as a child, the entire family of eight children was always present at mealtime, at which time his father would recite the Lord's Prayer in Ukrainian.  At 15, Russell says, I was seeding all the crop.  But when we were eight, nine years old, we were men.  We worked like a man.  By six years old, we were milking cows already.  There was no money but plenty to eat.  One penny for a stamp."  Well I would not claim to have worked like a man at the age of 6 or 9 or whatever but I do know I was driving the Ford tractor at the age of 6 AND milking cows when were were pretty young.

That is all for this morning.  My FP is gone and it sounds like Terry would like her legs rubbed.