Far Side of Fifty
Sunday, May 5, 2024

3 out of 7 isn't bad

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 Out of the last seven days we have been at the clinic's, ER and hospital four days.  One day we did a clinic and the hospital, one day ...
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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Book Club: May

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We read and discussed Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.  I enjoyed the bee keeping aspect of the novel, the rest of it w...
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Friday, May 3, 2024

All about May Day

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 I have been celebrating May Day for about 71 years.   It is very simple, you make a small basket out of rolled up paper or a paper cup, dec...
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Thursday, May 2, 2024

May basket delivery

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 Last night we went for a Ranger Blue ride to deliver May Baskets to neighbors.  We have some to deliver to in town children today.  It was ...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

May Baskets 2024

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 I finished the May Baskets last night most will get delivered today and a few tomorrow.  Most everyone guessed correctly!  Sheep! They turn...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Tune Up

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 Just like old cars, older men need a bit of a tune up from time to time. Far Guy has too much fluid in his system, so he is getting a bit o...
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Paper mess

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 I have taken over the dining room table with my May Basket project.  It is a real putzy project.  We had a quiet day, Far Guy had two naps....
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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Baby Pictures

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 This week I made it to the bottom of a crate filled with photographs.  My Mom always liked displaying our baby photos, first on the table i...
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Saturday, April 27, 2024

No Blue Sky

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 We had rain all day yesterday.  No blue skies or jet trails or aircraft sparkling in the sunlight.  April showers bring May flowers or so t...
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Butter Butts

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 The little Butter Butts ( Yellow-rumped Warblers) are here another sure sign of Spring.  They brought lots of their friends.  Pretty little...
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Thursday, April 25, 2024

First Robin

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 We saw the first Robin in our yard yesterday afternoon... no camera.  In the evening  I finally got a photo of the Robin sitting high in a ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

More pills

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 What do the Doctors do best?  Add more pills to your diet, he doubled my Potassium and hopes that next weeks blood test is better.  Low Pot...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Away

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 Gone to see this dog and go to a Dr appointment about my low Potassium. Far Side
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Monday, April 22, 2024

The big sort

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 This has been my work area since we have returned home. Organized chaos.  Although last week at one point it was a worse mess. There is kin...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

sNOw

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 Oh yes it snowed on Friday morning, off and on all day, huge honking snowflakes in the air, mostly it melted, then it snowed again overnigh...
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Saturday, April 20, 2024

In between

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 Yesterday I picked up my Aunt Judy (she was married to Uncle Dennis who was my Mother's brother, he died a number of years ago) and she...
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Friday, April 19, 2024

Busy day

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 Thursday is Far Guy's Infusion Day...he made the Nurses giggle so he got more than one stick with the needle.   I had a blood draw, my ...
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

52

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 Our oldest daughter, Trica is 52 today.  It has been 16 months since we last saw her.  She came for her Grandfathers Funeral but not for he...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

26

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 Maddie our middle Granddaughter is 26 today!  I was privileged to be present at her birth and cut the umbilical cord.   I then went with he...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Why?

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 As I sort through things I wonder why they were kept. I ran into one such item that was a mystery.  Well as it turns out it was kept by my ...
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