May 18th, 2021

 TERRY

Terry is doing about the same.  So nothing new there.  Now that we have the pool fixed I need to approach the subject of her using it but as of now I have not.  I do know that it is warm BUT if she uses it I will need to crank up the temp a bit more.

I received several pictures from Pat Grove (Patsy Tosse).  She was one of the gals in church/Sunday school back in the 50s and 60s.  I love old pictures so here are a couple.

I am not sure but I am guessing this was for a Christmas program but maybe not.  My goodness for some reason I do not remember all those kids being at Bergen Church.  It looks to me that it must have been the last year we were in Bergen as I do know the church was closed about 1962.  We do have a great representation of Lees of the time with Mary, Gayle, Helen, Judy, Linda and myself.  I was amazed as I put it on Facebook and someone in the picture send a note back and said he could name 29 of the kids.  I can not name that many even though I do recognize most if not all the faces!

Not sure HOW Pat got this picture but I like it and I did not have it

In 1951 Dave would have turned 7 and I would have turned 4.  I had to have been standing on something as at that time Dave would have been taller than I.

So here it is 8:00 and time to try to get some work done.  I have had papers on the dining room table for some time and have not touched them so maybe today!  I do intend to power wash the pool deck one more time today and then it will look very nice and clean.  It is so nice to jump into the pool a couple times a day just to cool off.  

I did weigh myself yesterday with the idea of losing several pounds this week.  I felt I kind of failed yesterday but got on the scale this morning and was down some SO a good sign.  I have thought about putting a chain and lock on the fridge and giving the key to Terry (well not really) so that I could not snack but have not yet.  Maybe, just maybe, I can exercise some discipline this week.

I just poured my last cup of FP so time for work AFTER I add some of Dakota Attitude.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"In 1943, Mary Ann graduated from high school.  By then the boys in her class had enlisted.  She says she wanted to go in the WAVES.  My parents absolutely wouldn't think of it.  She ended up teaching.  Rural teachers were about impossible to find.  You had to take a teacher's exam.  I was only 17, and I couldn't take the exam.  The school took her anyway, with the understanding that she had "better' pass the exam at the end of the year.  She taught for seven years."

"Marvin attended a country school three miles from home.  We'd snare gophers at recess time.  We took the tails.  We had hundreds o'tails.  We got two cents a tail.  That was big money in those days."

Time to work, after I sip the last of the FP.