Here we are on the right date and I will even post it today!!!

 TERRY

Terry is awake, is reading the paper and has not even turned on the TV yet!  I would say she is about the same as the past days.  

I do have tennis at 9:00 AM.  I did go over to the courts at 7:30 and they are dry but there was nobody playing at that time.  This time of the year few play but usually there are some but not today.  

Other than tennis I have nothing planned for the day.  Maybe I will do some work on a 2023 calendar as I started that yesterday.  OH, I could clean up the house, do the dishes and get some work done on folding clothes etc.  Yes, there is work to be done around here IF I get to it.  I do have a trip to Costco later today for some things.  

About two weeks ago we had a new fridge put in as the old one gave out.  I have never had an appliance that I could not hear when it is on.  IF I take notice and listen I can tell if it is on on running or not but as I do things around the house I do not hear it.  I did check the temp and it is working!!!

As I was sitting at the desk yesterday and remembering back on the farm I thought of some ways I spent my time.

Well to be honest I spent much time wanting to be someplace that would have been more exciting.  Not that the farm was boring but as a young kid the outside world always sounded more exciting.  I am now at the age of 75 and I promise living in the outside world is NOT always exciting!

 I did have some golf clubs.  Ronald gave me a #9, #7 and a #3 iron.  At times I would take the #9 and go north of the house.  We had a hedge about 2 feet tall that was about 10 feet long.  I would take a plastic ball and the #9 iron.  I would see how close I could stand to the hedge and pop the ball over it.  NOT all that exciting but for me it was kind of fun.

Dave and I used the vise in the garage a lot.  It was huge and not really used for much but that was what we would put a piece of wood in and use a coping saw to make a wooden gun.  Of course after making a couple of guns we would have to play cops and robbers!

We had the north part of the barn for hay.  I would say it was about 1/3 of the barn which was only one store.  Many farms had two story barns with hay on the second floor but not ours.  Much of the time there was enough space in the hay part to play.  Dave and I put up a 5 gallon pail with the top and bottom cut out and put it up on the wall for basketball!  I would spend hours in the barn pretending I was a STAR player and usually my team won!!!

Then there was the south side of the barn.  In the summer the cows would be in the pasture all the time so I would put the scoop on the Ford tractor and smooth out the barn year near the barn.  I would then use a rubberized ball to throw against the barn wall and play baseball.  I often would be Warren Spahn and behind me would be Eddie Matthews, Joe Adcock and the rest of the Braves.  Of course we would play against the Yankees and even though in real life they lost 2 of the 3 World Series to the Yankees in my ball field the Braves always won!

As I have said many times in the past one of my favorite things was to climb the light pole by the barn door and lay on the west side of the barn roof.  If I were waiting for Dad to come home I could see the car two miles to the west.  Or I could close my eyes and be any place in the world by flying in a HUGE plane.  By a big margin it beat doing any work that I was supposed to be doing!

At times I would take the 22 Winchester rifle that Ronald had given me.  He cut the barrel down and made the stock to fit me.  I THINK I actually became a fairly good shot when blackbirds perched in the groove of trees be the shop.  I became a good friend of all the cats we had as they viewed the birds as a feast!  As I have said before IF either Dave or I took our rifle out the other one had to stay in the house.  That was a result of cousin Robert being in a shooting accident where he died.  

One of my favorite things was after a rain.  We had a low spot in our driveway and water would always settle in that spot.  It took great skill and thinking to drain it after a rain!!!

Enough of the past today.  I have tennis in about a half hour so I need to be the the "real" for a while.