TERRY
As we head towards the weekend Terry is doing about the same. As I write she is awake and is reading the paper. So no news is good news. There is nothing planned for the day.
Today is Thursday and I have nothing planned for the day except to get some work done around the house. There are papers everywhere and they need to be thrown, filed or something as the mess can not be for very much long!!!
I may need to make a quick stop at the store but that is about it.
I THINK I am kind of feeling better as the days go by.
So maybe I can launch a story that took place way way back on the farm. It went like this:
It was a Friday but we had gotten lucky just a few days ago. Fritz, the mail man, had driven up to our house and in the back seat of his car was 50 baby chicks! We had been expecting them so we had things all in place. There was one room in the granary that did not leak water when it rained. That was where the baby chicks were to be. We had a dome kind of thing with a bulb in for warmth. We had a tall water jug that filled up the bottom all the time so we were all set. We would keep the chicks in the granary for several weeks and then we would butcher them for the table. Each day we would monitor them and make sure they had warmth and food. As happens on the farm from time to time we would lose some of them to ill health etc but "for sure" after a few months we would have spring chicken and the way Mom prepared it the meal would be delicious and maybe even better than that. On the day of butchering was not my favorite day. There would be blood and everything else all over the yard but I guess that was par for the course if you lived on the farm and lived off the land. Anyway I would take the good with the bad. I did not like killing the chickens but I sure liked eating them as the way Mom fixed them they were the best.
The is it for the day. Here it is 8:20 my time and I just may try to get some work done
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