Thursday of May 13th and I am waiting!!!

 TERRY

It is another day for Terry and she is the same.  As I write she is reading the paper.  Nothing new for today and I am guessing it will be that way at least until we see Dr. Vickers in two weeks.  BUT I will still write daily to keep up with her health.

This morning is the first time I have been able to look out at the pool and see this.  I am guessing it has been down for three weeks or so.  It finished filling yesterday early afternoon and then I turned on the heater and pool pump.  The pool people come on Mondays so I will have to wait until then for the salt to be added. Terry converted it to a salt pool maybe 7 or so years ago and it is so much nicer than chlorine.  It will be so nice to once again be able to jump in and cool off.  I am thinking as things get back to normal I need to power wash the deck as it is in need big time.

As has been the "norm" lately there is really nothing planned for the day.  Yes, I will again do some work on the filing of papers but I really can not work on that none stop so it may take a few more days.  

I have started rolling a ball on the arch of my foot as I sit at the desk as that is supposed to help that darn foot heal.  We will see.  When I stepped out into the yard yesterday to see the settings on the pool I could feel a slight pain in the foot SO I know it is not near healed for golf yet.  But what the heck, I really have NO golf buddies that I would golf with on a regular bases so what is one to do?  I may make a call to a small course a few miles north of here and see what the cost is for a round.  I am guessing that by the first of June the price will be down and the courses will not be all that busy.  I THINK I could get out early, pay not too much and get a round in by the time 10:00 comes up on the clock.  Wow, that almost brings me back to the late 60s as I went to college at NDSU.  Sometimes in the summer I would be up before the sun would come up and with my golf bag and clubs of driver, 5, 7, 9 and putter I would head to the 9 hole golf course south of Moorhead on highway 75.  There I could get in several holes of golf BEFORE they opened and then head to work.  As I look back that was not so good as I did not pay BUT.

My title today refers to the mail today.  We received a note from our tax people yesterday that we will get our tax return papers today.  That will mean we just need to sign them and send them in.  What I really want to know is do we "pay' or do we get a "refund".  We are expecting a refund and perhaps a nice one as we had a LOT of medical expenses last year but I am not sure what counted and what did not.  Well I will find out today.  I am also expecting a Ping #3 wood to come.  That will mean I will have ALL the clubs I need/want.  I will have gotten all of them on Ebay or thrift store.  The clubs I will have are G15 so I googled to find out if they were actually made in MY life time!  It looks like Ping is now in maybe the third generation of clubs and the G15 were in the second generation.  So they are old but not as old as dirt!  I am thinking that with the G15 driver 10.5 degree I may be able to drive 200 yards!!!  Well not sure about that and even if I can/do there is no promise that the ball would go straight!  Enough of that but it is kind of fun to think about.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

Ellinor was born in 1929 on her mother's homestead near Keene.  She married Elmo Sorenson; they have four children---Gary, Larry, Curtis and Julie.  Eleanor attended a rural school.  We went to school by horses and a bus--it was called 'the bus" and it was a little cart with rubber tires.  Winter, we had sleds, a sleigh.  We would take rocks, put them in the cookstove at night, in the oven, so they would be warm to take for our feet when we left for school in the morning.  Also we would take our sleds along, tie them on the back of the sleigh."

This story is very much like chapter 45 in my book, "Tractor Taxi".  After a snow storm over the weekend we were sure we would have Ronald at home for some extra days as he had come home from Lidgerwood for the weekend.  He was going to school there.  Dad had different ideas.  Dad put a barrel on the back of the Ford tractor and hay in the bottom of the barrel.  Dad brought several rocks in the house and Mom heated them up in the cook stove.  When it was time to leave the rocks went into the barrel and helped keep Ronald warm as Dad drove the Ford tractor all the way to Geneseo, which was about 7 miles away, and there Dad flagged down a car on the main road so Ronald could get to school for Monday morning.  I would say the mentality back in the early 50s was a bit different than now BUT then maybe Dad just wanted to do it for a challenge and a thrill!

Enough for now.  The FP is almost finished and it is time to get some work done.