Here we are headed into the second to last week of September!

 TERRY

It is a bit after 9:00 AM as I sit down to write and Terry is sleeping.  I read the paper at the kitchen table and I could hear her quiet but peaceful breathing as she slept.  I am thinking she may wake up soon but it is not unusual for her to sleep late on some days.

Many took in the Marboe reunion event and me---I got a pen!!!  Carol sent 3 pens and a copy of the writing I sent in AND the $20 sign up up back which she did not have to do.  I am pretty sure the 1898 date is when the county was in incorperated and NOT when the school was started.  However I am not sure of that.  I do know that Dad went to Wood Lake School and that would have been around 1917-1925 as I am pretty sure he went through the 8th grade.  I would think Mom went there too but she never talked about it so am not sure.  I do know that Mom went to two years of high school in Veblen.

The reunion has brought up many memories of Wood lake country school but I think if I were to go into some of them this morning it may be boring.  I will say that for the most part we walked to school and walked home again.  I do not think it was very often even in the winter when we got a ride.  It was just under a mile and a half.  Actually Dave and I often made a game of things as we walked.  Things like who could kick a stone the farthest?  Who could hit the pasture fence post with a rock?  In the winter it was often who could run and slide on the road the farthest etc.  I do not remember how long it would take us to get to school but it must not have been that long with only a mile and a half.

I think the Marboe Country School was 6 or 7 miles to the SE.  The internet is wonderful in terms of finding things.  I found that Marboe School was 5.25 miles from Wood Lake School.  Then I brought up a map and found out that way way back then each county had a school so for example Wood lake School is labeled "school #1".  To the west which I think had Tewaukon School that is labeled also "school #1" which must mean each county started out with a school and later some counties added another.  Even at the age of 74 I guess one can learn some things if you look!  Now I am wondering how many counties had more than one school.  

Enough of that for today.  Now I would like Terry to wake up so I could go on a bike ride.  I do not want to leave when she is sleeping.  It certainly would have been nice to have attended the reunion but it is also nice NOT to be on a plane now flying back!

In place of a bike ride now I may jump in the pool while Terry is still sleeping.  My FP is down to a couple of sips so time for a last sip and time for a dip.