Here it is Sunday and I missed the last couple of days!

 TERRY

As I begin to write it is almost 9:00 AM and Terry is well into the paper.  She was on her phone for some time before I woke up this morning.  I would say she is doing about the same which is good.  There is nothing planned for the day so will be homebodies I think.  We are well into summer here as each day it is in the low 90s so it is inside most of the time.

It is May 15th and about this time of the year my mind often goes back to the many many many years that I taught and at this time we were coming to the end of the school year.  Many years I was planning what I would be doing for the next 3 months.  At first it was painting for people in the neighborhood but then for the years around 80s, 90s and into the 2000s it was Servant Camp.  After I stepped down it continued to go strong and with some changes due to the pandemic it is still going.  Many good things happened during those years and of course it was not without some trying times as well.  

So here we are kind of at the closing weeks of school.  Henry is graduating  from HS and is going on to college next year BUT there are 13 more grandkids coming along and the years go so fast soon there will be more graduating.  I can not keep up with where they are in school but I do know that Liam is next as he is finishing his 10th year.  I know Leo is finishing his 9th grade and then Faustina and Audrey are right behind.  AND then there is Ruby, Agatha, John Paul, Elspeth, Jude, Veronica, Max, Leo A and Ben.  How about that I got them ALL.

Well Sunday is often a day that I take a little more time to remember times past!  So today I will reminisce about the good times that were!

School year of 1960-61

Well this was my 8th grade school year.  It was a year that was not all that exciting.  Many of the kids that we played ball with etc were a grade ahead of us so here we were with not enough good players to have a good ball game.  For that reason I decided that yes we would have ball games but I would focus much of my effort on reading.  I was not the most dedicated student but I did OK or maybe just a tad above OK.  BUT I had a lot of time on my hands.  Yes we played ball at noon and at recess but for school in general it was kind of a "ho hum"' kind of year.  Well our teacher Mrs.Oodenbrett kept us busy but really I did not apply myself all that much as it was boring so I decided that I would spend ALL my extra time reading books.  I knew we had to have 25 book reports in in order to go to the end of the year school picnic.  Well I promise you some of the kids did NOT do that but still everyone was at the picnic!  Anyway I decided that I would see how many books I could read and report on.  For a report we had to have the name of the book etc and at least a half page written about the book.  Well I started kind of early in the fall and by the time mid may came I had 100+ books reported.  AND of course the books that I like the best were any book about horses so I tried to find ALL books about them but of course our library was limited.  In doing all the reading I did keep up my studies but maybe not as good as I should have!

Well here I am at 9:30 and maybe it is time to take a bike ride for a while.  I am not doing 100% in terms of my physical being but am getting pretty close to normal I THINK.  So will sign off for now and get a short ride in.  Many people have left so it is pretty quiet around here.  I would guess that maybe 60% or more of the people have left for the summer.  My FP is half finished so will stick around the computer until it is finished and the hop on the bike.