Here we are on June 14th and the start of the second full week in June

 TERRY

Well the saying that no news is good news pertains to Terry as she is same same.  Again as I write she is reading the paper while she is in bed.  

Over the next many days I will be posting pictures sent by John Mouw.  I will put them at the end of my writing today.

There is no tennis for me today.  Now that Karl is gone I may be out of tennis on some days as he usually put me in three days a week.  I just do not have the time to try to round up matches.  Most of the guys are gone for the summer.  Where ALL six courts were always full at 7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 during the months of January-April they slowed down in May and now are almost empty.  During busy season there would be 15 courts in the morning but today I see 4 full.  I will play tomorrow and then again on Thursday.

As far as I know Cynthia is on the road as of yesterday and plans to arrive here sometime on Friday.  She is taking the more southern route as she is stopping as a friends for a night or two on the way.  Then John plans to arrive late Sunday or Monday.  I need to be sure I have my camera AND enough food for everyone.  Actually I am not too worried about the food as Liam and Henry are not coming and those younger ones do not eat so much!

I have much to do before the arrival of kids Friday.  The dining room table has had papers on it for a LONG time so time to clear it off and make the house look kind of nice.  AND yes the den too needs to be cleaned up and I am sure other rooms as well.  How can one not do much yet make such messes all over the house???

I like to keep the garage door open for a time in the morning just to let some cooler air in.  Well NO more as I walked out to get the papers this morning I noticed a bird had started making a nest in the ladder that is hung on the wall!  NO more open garage door.

DAKOTA ATTITUDE

"After military service, I went right back to the farm again.  The Linstads bought the Dahlen family farm and moved there in 1961.  They now have severn quarters of land.  But that's not the best indicator of success in life, according to Clayton.  Family's probably the biggest thing.  One looks after the other.  The grandkids start coming' and then great-grandkids start coming' and then you realize you're old"

"I taught school right out of high school in Adler Township.  It was during the war, you know, when they had to have more teachers.  So I've taught, and I was 88 years old the last day I was subbing here in Lakota.  Gunhild's husband, Marcus Schmidt, died in 1985.  She has four children."

Here are the pictures for today.  Top is Gail with Aunt Bertie.  Bertie lived to the ripe old age of 96 and up until a week of her death she kept her own house etc.  She was 10 years older than Mom but out lived Mom by a few years. The middle picture is of my kids along with Becky and Grandpa.  I am pretty sure it was when Mom died.  The bottom picture is of Dave, Helen and Joan.  Not sure where I was but I am guessing it was Dave's confirmation but again not sure.  It looks to me that it most have been around 1956 give or take a year or two.

MANY THANKS TO JOHN FOR THE PICTURES.

So here we are at about 8:30 on Monday.  I am actually going to work at cleaning up the dining room so it will not be ALL talk and no WORK for the day!  I still have a tiny sip of FP so will enjoy that before I start on the task of the day.