Family Time…..

Family Time…..  

I am going to take the next two weeks off for family time.

So won’t be writing until July 5 or 6…

It is going to be wonderful… after all of the stuff for the past year… and some of it even before… have not had a chance to spend some time together daily for 5 years… We have had two times of being together for a day and a half, because of life celebrations… quick visits and gone home again, as we lost family members in the past 4 years. So this time we are taking at least 14 days or more.

Hopefully I will have some pictures when we get done.

So enjoy the holidays…  have fun.. enjoy your family. Take time to smell the roses.. Enjoy the 4^th to the fullest.

And Ms. Jo, I am sooooooooooooo happy you are doing better… LOVE AND HUGS

So until July, stay out of trouble… be kind to each other.

Monday, Monday…

Monday, Monday…

 

I got the Monday Bluesssssssssssssssss

And I don’t know what to do….

Usually start this Monday morning one  the

Night before. But I had NOTHING… 

 

Couple days ago I had something.. I think.. haha

That is the life of the elderly.. if you don’t write it down

You lose it.. 

 

Funny how the brain works.. or doesn’t… 

Anyway.. HAPPY FLAG DAY…  how you are

not cooking like a good share of the nation is.

We only have 91 one today…

This is the part of the year where I wonder, are we studying for HELL… if so, I am not going.. 

 

Isn’t it funny ….

Isn’t it funny how temperatures are different to us .. under different times… 

This Spring as always… as soon as the temps climb up to the mid 50’s, I shed the jacket and start with a sweater in the yard.  Working up to taking the sweater off as it gets too hot.

YET, if I am in the house.. and the heater is going.. and the heater is turn down to 55. as we had the doors open with it being 55 outside.. and I AM FREEZING… 

When the King gets into the hot tub.. and it is set at 103, he says it is too hot..  what part of HOT TUB doesn’t he get.  Yet when he decides to turn it down for the summer to 92… he says it is too cold..   Yet last week when we had 90+ days, he got the air conditioners out and placed in the windows.. because it was TOO HOT outside and made the house too hot inside.   This week it is 65 outside and he says the house is too cold… lol 

But the neat thing is, he is getting older..  because in the past when I have gotten cold in the winter, and want to put the temp up to 71.. he would tell me.. PUT A SWEATER ON… lol.. and we would keep it at 68…  Now age is catching up… and now he ask me what is the temp set at.. I tell him  70… he will tell me.. it is too cold.. put it up to 74!!! I tell him… well, my husband says, if one is too cold.. one should put on a sweater.. lol..  

Funny how our bodies adjust or not to different temps.

The graduations….

Here we are again… summer time and graduation time.

2020 and even 2021 graduations have been rough.

These students… be it high school or college…. Worked so hard for so long, and finally it is the end of the line.  But this line has been changed so much. 

One works hard to get the grades.. studying, test, and so much more…  to finally get that piece of paper to say your worth…  But that is only half of it.  At the end of the line, is the pomp and circumstances one looks forward to. The student as well as the parents..  While it is the beginning of the rest of the student’s life…. It is still the celebration of work well done… but that life pulled the rug from out under them.   Oh, they still get the paper. They have the proof of all that hard work.

But the celebration…. The celebration that brings all together.. for the great release of stress of hard work.. The parents pride.. the student see the fruits of their labor. Years of labor… ESPECIALLY THE COLLEGE student who has done from 4 to 10 years of hard work.. stressful times, self doubt times…  yet still marched on, still banging their heads against the odds.  And came out the winner…  came out to SILENCE….  A mere few words over a zoom like video from some room to another room..  a few friends and family saying or typing congratulations…  And if they were lucky, some small towns got together to try to make it better with beeping cars going by….

I guess the upside of this, is not sitting in the boiling sun, listening to some boring speech about the greatest that will follow, if they keep their heads high and keep working hard. 

But gone are the parties, the throwing of the graduation hats to the skies..  the clapping for the many awards giving out to special students..  The screaming as the student walked across the stage… the tears of the parents as they hug and take pictures after.  

Let’s hope the year of 2022, is back to the great celebration.   And the words of Dr. Seuss ring out from his book… OH THE PLACES YOU WILL GO… 

In the meantime.. the class of 2021, who did get to celebration in your small towns… and those who still have to do the zoom videos…CONGRATULATIONS …. You are one tough student who persisted thru the hardest of times… Nothing came easy the last two years of your schooling..

Now go there and give them hell… You are the proud.. you are the ones who really walked in the snow uphill challengers of life..   Again…CONGRATULATIONS.

 

 

THE PAPER….

THE PAPER….

Today is my first day without a newspaper… I will have withdrawals… no crossword puzzle…   and what ever the latest is..

But our newspaper has gone up so much that it is almost $200 a year.  I remember when I was paying $111 and a tip too. 

To make it worse, the paper has gotten thinner. Total of 8 pages.. that is 4 sheets of paper… Time to read the paper, we have figured out .. (minus doing the crossword) is 1 and half to 2 minutes.  On really rare days, there is an article of interest.  The Sunday paper will be a little bit harder as my favorite part is a column written by some guy name Sid.. He does a wonderful job of bring history to the front and center.  And such a variety.  From WWII, to Romans and all between… and not just wars..  Every week it is interesting and yes, I spend about 15 minutes or so on that alone.  THAT I WILL MISS.

Also the paper besides becoming a shell of what it was, the facts are getting mixed up… One time they even printed the wrong obits for the picture that was shown.. Really must have been sad for the family…. Unless the one who passed had a heck of a sense of humor.   

So I pulled off the bandaid.. I said NO to the request to renew my daily paper.  I surely will miss it, as that is my routine in the morning. And I have always said, I like the ‘IN MY HAND” feel of the paper, The layout on the table, paper…  So I will see how this week will go, and then SUNDAY, without Sid..  

How about you? have you gave up on your paper?  Does your paper cost you almost  $200 a year?  Or are you from the city where the big papers are?  I get it, that Facebook local has faster news.. it is the place to go for what is going on NOW.. and yes, it isn’t always accurate. That is what I counted on the paper to do. Come the next morning with FACTS…but half the time, there is no mention of what happen.. or worse yet, they copied what was on Facebook.   But the record which is the police report is from 2 weeks to a month late… by that time.. who cares.

Oh, well, times are changing..

HELLO JUNE…

HELLO JUNE…

 My, what a long time you have been away. It seems like

just last year, you only appeared on calendars… the word was NO .. No Lost in the 50’s…. NO music festival… No Mask, No enter…  NO AND NO AND NO… thru the rest of what we all have known for summers…  No Memorial Day celebrations… No Memorial Day cook outs… No , just no..  followed by No 4^th of July, yet the rebels in our town did have one, with the cancel of the normal one.. 

So here we are 2021… and yes it seems to be sneaking in. Still no Lost in the 50ths.. unknown if that is permanent for the rest of time…  But 4^th of July WILL HAPPEN… PARADES, PICNIC’S and FIREWORKS…  And just yesterday, there were the military celebrations at the cementaries.. There was the return of the Memorial Day parade in the town North of us. 

So HELLO JUNE.. it is the official start of SUMMER…FUN TIME.. SWIMMING, COOK OUTS, AND of course summer projects.. But the BOATS were launched.  People are out on the lake.. fishing buddies are back at it again… 

 

SO HELLO JUNE..  we missed you so much last year…