Here they are at year 22 and as good as ever!!!

 

I would say that at year 22 they are better than ever.  Here are Amy and Aaron and they look like they just got married, right!!  Well here they are with Amy having a great job, Aaron a great job and with two kids Ruby and Leo who are doing great.  Hope today AND everyday you two continue to do great.

Love, Dad and Terry

Now on to the blog of the day.  Really I do not know what I have been doing as my blogging has been spotty at best.  Well it could be that my life is not really that busy and not much is happening either!!!  

I have yet to get onto the tennis courts.  I did hit with Phil, one of the pros, on Monday and I would say my game was a game breaker in the wrong way so to speak.  Well I did hit the ball but for sure it proved that I was NOT up to playing in a match if you get my drift!  I will get out onto the court a few more times before I am ready to play.  My problem is my time is short as many players have left for the summer but still there are a few left.  Anyway it is what it is and I will try to do my best.  I did see my Dr. and he said to take it slowly as the stroke is in the part of the brain where balance is controlled and actually I did not even need him to tell me that!!!

So Terry and I are taking it one day at a time.  Her granddaughter's wedding is coming up in two weeks and we have not even discussed that.  We will see as the time gets closer if we go or not.  Really, not a lot of time, so each day counts.  

The weather has already become hot here.  Most days it is 90 or so which keeps the AC working.  We are kind of in a dry spell and could use rain.  

Well as I sit here my mind goes way way back to the early 1960s.  This was the time of the year that I did not have sports in HS.  In the fall it was football and then winter came and it was basketball.  BUT that was usually over in early March and then it was home after school each day.  Dad actually said he needed Dave and I home in the spring to do field work after school but really that was not the case.  Yes, we did some field work during the week but not everyday and not a lot.  Dave left home after graduating in 1962 so in 63,64 and 65 it was me, myself and I guess that was it!  Really by the time school was out it was almost June and most of the springs work was done.  Yes, the were some crops that were not up so there would be some picking of rocks but that was it.  There was often a little time frame where there was little work in the fields and then came haying time but actually by the time Dave left home we had pretty much sold the cattle so that was not an issue.  

I remember the summer times well as actually Dave left home in 1962 after graduation BUT in the summer of 1960 and 1961 he worked for farmers and was not at home.  So with nobody to play ball with or other things I used my time to clean up the mess that was left from the wind storm a long time ago.  When that was cleaned up I cleaned up the foundation of the old hog barn and made that nice.  I am not sure what happened to the hogs but we never had any when I was growing up so it was long long ago that the hog barn had blown down.  I do remember the garage that blew down in the spring of 1956.  It was a large building with two sides where you could park the car and also the truck.  Dad never did build another garage so it was just a pile of junk that needed to be cleaned up.  At the same time that happened the wind charger from on top of the house blew off but by that time we had rural electrification so that did not matter. 

So here I am today.  Seventy-five years old and counting myself kind of lucky.  Ronald and Janet both died in their late 20s and Dave died short of his 76th birthday.  The farm is gone and Joan, Helen and I are scattered from Arizona to Arkansas to Florida to Minnesota.  Life is full of ups and downs.  Here it is 10:15 and time, maybe, to get some work done!!!