It is Tuesday, June 7th of 2022

 TERRY

There is nothing new about Terry.  As I write she is reading the paper and has NOT yet turned on the TV.  So it is one day, again, at a time and we live in the present for sure.  

As I write today I am kind of in the "memory lane" mode so to speak.  Looking back at yesterday, the day Dave died 2 years ago, got me thinking.  Thinking of ALL or I should say the many things in my life that were affected by by siblings.  

I feel we were a fairly close knit family being on a farm 10 miles from any town.  AND by towns I am talking about Geneseo and Cayuga.  By todays standards they perhaps would not even be in the "town" category.  When I was growing up, that is in grade school anyway they actually were places where you could get most things that you needed.  For sure Cayuga was that.  The stores in Cayuga were much more than Geneseo.  Kiefer Brothers implement store was by far the largest around.  They sold equipment of the International Brand and they had a fix it shop that could fix anything.  We did not need that as Dad was a mechanic by trade actually.  In his early 20s he spend 2 winters in Aberdeen SD learning how to overhaul engines.  But of course every town of any size had to have a liquor store and Cayuga had TWO.  Then there was Bud's grocery store and for the most part you could get most things there that you needed.  Of course there was the post office.  When I was a little guy there actually was a bank but by the time I was in middle grades that was closed.  The last two stores in town were Cecil's cafe and the store that bought cream and eggs.  We would bring in crates of eggs and 5 gallon cans of cream.  Once in a blue moon Dad would ask if I wanted a burger at the cafe. During my school days Cayuga had a school that was 1-8 grades and up to the time that I was maybe in 4 grade or so there was a high school as well.  Joan may have been the first class to graduate from Sargent Central as Cayuga HS school closed.  But like many many of the small towns things got smaller and smaller and the population got less and less.  I have not idea how many people are now in Cayuga but not a lot.  I should also mention that there was a gas station until the middle or upper 50s as well. 

I was in the middle of writing and somehow got off track.  Will post this now.