Here we are on the LAST day of February 2022

 TERRY

Terry is watching a movie this morning.  She woke me up at around 7:00 as she needed some attention as I will let it go at that.  I would say she is same same. Nothing really planned for the week so we will take it one day at a time and be thankful for how and what we have.

I enjoyed a feast for breakfast this morning.  With two farm fresh brown eggs (I put that in for Leo Lee) and two venison breakfast sausages compliments of Aaron I enjoyed it to the very last bite.  I would say I do expect a wonderful day with a start like that.  AND of course there was a compliment of FP in my favorite cup so here I am and ready to face the last day of the month!!!

I could guess that the venison might remind me of deer hunting and it did.  The very first time I was old enough we went out to the Badlands to hunt and filled our tags by late Saturday as back then one could start hunting at noon on Friday.  Camping in the middle of the Badlands with Dad, John Ronald and Dave I thought I had died and gone to heaven.  Then to make things better as I woke up in the dark camper to the smell of deer liver it only got better.  Dad was by the stove with eggs and liver fit for a king I would say.  I still remember lying on the barn roof looking west to try and spot Dad and Dave coming home from the hunt and thinking "next year I can go and that will make be a man just like Dad!"  For the life of me I can not remember the name of Dad's friend where we hunted so I will call him Ben but I know that was not his name.  Anyway the years before I could hunt they went and stayed in his almost antique house and slept upstairs by climbing a ladder to the second floor.  THEY oil production came into being and all the farmers all of a sudden had a lot of money.  The first year I went there was a new house in place.  I heard stories of farmers who could not handle all the money they were getting and it led to not so good things.  I would say I hunted many years.  Times with Dad, Dave, John and Ronald but many times by myself as well.  BUT nothing could compare to the very first year with the "real men" in my family as I felt now I belonged.  There really was nothing like sitting in one place early in the morning and then as the sun got high in the sky one would start walking and looking.  It sounds strange but I actually expected to see deer each time I came to the top of a hill.  Of course that did not happen but that was my mind set.  I think going deer hunting was so special because Dad never provided shotguns for Dave or me when there was pheasant hunting.  In those times IF I went along I became the bird dog!!!

I should try to get a repair man out for the dishwasher as it is not working.  However I have not been bothered by washing dishes by hand.  However it is better now than way way back when Joan, Dave and I would wash dishes when Mom was gone.  That darn Joan would wash and would say "there are points for each dish you dry.  Some are worth more points than others.  Then at the end she would say we each got the same amount of points".  As if we didn't know what she was doing!!!

I am going to get serious about our taxes today.  Travis said he would put some papers that arrived in St. Paul in the mail Saturday so I am expecting them tomorrow or Wednesday but there is a lot I can do before I get them.  I think I will clear the dining room table and then set up tax papers and pretend that I am actually organized!!!  I say that because organization is not my middle name as it is hardly in my vocabulary!  BUT I will start that today with a goal of sending papers off to our financial people no later than the end of March but hopefully before that.  Of course that is IF we get a refund which we usually do.  

There are two things that I have noticed about Terry just in the last couple of weeks.  First she is watching whatever show comes up on TV.  As I write she is watching a movie and a month ago she would have been watching the morning news.  The other thing is the first thing she always wanted was the paper.  Last week she did not even read the paper a couple of days and here this morning it is now almost 9:00 and she has not asked for it.  Well I guess a third things is she will often tell me I am cute!  I do not know what to think about that as I do think at the ripe old age of 75 cute is not in the cards because at the age of 74 I do not remember being cute!!!

As I read that this morning I thought there may be some truth in that for some!!!

No it is time to sign off and get some work done.  I may go on a bike ride as I was not put in for tennis today so I will not be playing but a bike ride would help with the sausage that I ate IF you get what I mean.  I just poured the last of the FP so will actually look at the pre stock market so see if I can stop at Starbucks today or stop at the bank to borrow money.  A "good-bye to the month of February.