TERRY
Terry woke up about a half hour ago and is good. She said she had a good nights sleep and as I write she is reading the paper with the TV on. Again, as is often the case, there are no plans for the day. I actually have the kitchen clean, WOW!
Again, no tennis so it will be a day at home. I need to get some exercise in as this "home body" thing is not good for the weight, if you get my vib?
OK so I grew up in a family where money was pretty tight to say the least but really we never got to this point!!! Actually when we talk about money really we had very little growing up. A lot of our clothes came from Aunt Ragna in California. When those big boxes came it was almost like a holiday to see IF there was anything in there that fit. I still remember my senior year in 1965. I was looking forward to graduation in late May and actually Dad said we would go to Fargo and I could buy a suit. I mean that was a "wow" time as I had never had a suit. I do not remember what we paid for it but I thought it was a pretty nice suit as it was kind of greenish/blue and I thought I looked pretty darn sharp in it. Come graduation day and it was kind of a hot muggy day. When we arrived at Sargent Central I got out of the car and my new suit looked like it had been sitting in the dryer fo a week with wrinkles that would rival someone who was 100+ in age!!! I did my best to shake and wiggle to get it to look kind of nice but then of course we had gowns on so I felt pretty good. After the ceremony Dad took a picture of me and my girl friend and I was glad the gown stayed on!!! By the way that was kind of a nice picture but it went up in flames (not flames as in a relationship) when the farm burned. Well I think that was kind of appropriate as that relationship went up in flames as well after high school. If only I knew then what I know now!!!
I could say more about our financial state when I lived at home. There was NO doubt we never were in danger of not having enough food. There was a time in the early 50s that we did get government commodities like cheese, peanut butter and maybe dry milk which we never used as we milked cows. I do remember Mom wanting to hide things as she was somewhat ashamed that we got them. BUT we did have chickens, cows, deer meat in the fall and always a big garden. I do know that even though we always had enough food Mom was pretty darn good at making use of what we had. BUT in my mind some of her inventions were not the best. Soaked wheat berries of breakfast food!!! Actually I think Dave liked them but in my opinion they were awful. That probably does not mean a lot as I thought Corn Flakes were awful and Dave ate it in the mixing bowl! In my mind we had enough food if you would be OK with 5 hard boiled eggs for supper as I was!!! I know that there were several years when our diet was pretty much venison, eggs, potatoes, veggies from the garden, milk and really not much that came from the grocery store. Anybody would be surprised and impressed with the meals Mom made with what she had to work with. It is interesting as I THINK we pretty much had enough money to buy film and gun supplies! I will not comment on that!!!
I made chili yesterday and in my opinion it turned out good. I think I will have some for lunch.
Well a week from tomorrow I am scheduled to fly to MN and then drive to the reunion Saturday morning. I have thoughts about it. Really I feel, at this point, that it will be OK for me to be away for 48 hours but then as is often the case I have second thoughts from time to time. I do NOT have thoughts that anything will happen to Terry when I am gone BUT rather how will she be by herself and pretty much be in bed the entire time? I still have things to work out before that time comes.
That is about it for today. I still have a few sips of FP left so will enjoy that as I turn the computer off.
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