Bad Back

Man! It's hard to do stuff when your back is out of whack.

Load the washer. Check.
Let Lee load wet towels into drier. Check.
Mopped (Swiffered) the kitchen floor very slowly and gently. Check.
Let Lee run the sweeper. Check.
Did the haircut routine that saves $10. Check.

Now resting.

Yes. We Found the Broom

Lee happened to glance over in the corner of the garage near the fireplace outcropping.

There was the missing broom. That is absolutely the weirdest thing. We looked all over that garage and we did not see it. How is that even possible?

Maybe someone is trying to "gaslight" us. (I loved that movie, by the way, even though it was cruel and scary.) Charles Boyer was able to make you believe he was truly evil.

Wonder what amazing thing will surprise us next.  ( I won't even mention the extra walking aid that Lee forgot about.)

Seventy-three Degrees

What a nice day. We got out to go see a doctor at the clinic. Lee thinks she's too young to be a doctor.

That's what happens when you have watched three doctors retire from 1959 and you need to seek a new one! They just look too young.

Saving Money

Our grocer has a card available. We use it every time we buy groceries. Yesterday the card was not in my wallet.  Lee had gone into the store last week and he had used it.

It was my fault I didn't check my wallet and I left the keys in the car with the key ring card on it so Lee could listen to the radio if he wanted to.

So I get to the cashier and no card. But I know our phone number! It wouldn't key in on the device. So the cashier tried to key it in. Nope. Then he asked me what the expiration date was on the card.
What?  I didn't know they expired. So nothing worked.

My receipt was the shortest I have ever received there. No discounts on anything. And at the bottom is an invitation to get one of their cards. And - "You could have saved $12.21 if you had had a card."

Bummer.  I'm still mad at myself for not checking my wallet for the card, for leaving the keys in the car and for the device not accepting my phone number.  AND for the cashier unable to key in the phone number.

The nice customer behind me offered to let me use his card.. .. .. is that even legal?

Getting into College

Several generations ago when I graduated from high school, I remember taking the test at the local  junior college to see if I knew enough to enroll there. As far as I remember, my mom and dad did not know about it except that I was taking the test. I don't know if it was called a SAT test or college entrance exam or what! I do remember that I was nervous because I wanted to do well.

A generation later, our boys both enrolled at the "community" college. Someone decided "junior" was demeaning. I had no conversations with them about taking the a test for entrance. Later they both dropped out of the local school and went to Kansas State University.  Again, no contact with them about testing.

So what happened from the 1980's to the present time when parents are arranging fake tests, fake athletic scholarships and other illegal ways to get their kids into preferred schools?  Maybe this was happening years ago with large monetary donations and it was kept quiet.

Wouldn't life be simpler if everyone just told the truth and stopped cheating to advance their position in  life?

Notes from 1834

Someone in my dad's family researched his family. I have a copy of the results. There are twenty-four pages of names beginning with my dad's great grandfather, born in 1789.

Thomas Brown married Nancy Markly in 1810 or 1811 and they had sixteen children over the next twenty-six years.

In a side note, four children died from scarlet fever during a two week period in 1834. One boy was fifteen; three little girls were six, eight and nine. Henry, Christiana, Lucinia, and Rebecca  were gone.

How fortunate we are to have vaccines. It is a terrible thing that some people do not believe in protecting their children.

Sugar Mill

This building is 140 years old. It originally was a sugar mill. Later it was used for various purposes.  About a week ago the elevator shaft collapsed in the back. The people who own it do not have the money to restore it so it will be razed. 

A little more history gone.