HWandering, 05 march 2022

    Today is a day of miracles!  In the middle of the night, around 4am I think, I woke up to a thunderstorm.  I forgot to see how much rain we got.  Too dark now.  How refreshing to wake up to lightning and thunder with the window covered in rain.  Wish it would happen more often.

    Today was awful weather.  It did get in the 70s but the 40 mph winds were deadly.  Hard to drive.  Pushed to one side of the road and then to the other.  The house rattled all night and day.  Wind is going down and temps are falling and maybe rain tomorrow.  

    The second miracle is when I got home from being out of town, I walked in the house and it was warm.  WARM!!!  And I heard the furnace on.  Hot air coming out of the vents.  I have no idea why but I am truly thankful.  I wonder if the part whatever it is had old dirt or lint or something that prevented it from firing the furnace on.  JR told me to not touch a thing.  Just leave it as is.  Trust me, I will touch nothing.  Feels awesome to be warm.  And I had already planned to sleep on the sofa.  Nope, a warm bed is better.

    JR has a really old phone old cellphone.  He is not addicted as I am!!  He got a notice from his phone company that they would give him a new phone that was at least 4G.  So today we drove to McPherson to get his new phone.  Looks really good.  Took a lot longer than getting my iPhone but that was no problem.  It is working just fine.  And will take much better photos than his old one.  He mostly takes very professional photos with a wonderful camera.  I too could do that but I am mostly clueless.  I need to have him show me things and as he does TAKE NOTES.  

    After we got his phone we had to eat.  Decided on the Crown and Rye in Lindsborg.  We should support it more often but Jalisco's get our business most of the time.  Good to be back at the Crown.  They had 3 large groups in there.  He got Swedish Meatballs over noodles.  Not the Swedish way of having them with potatoes and lingonberries.  When I have that I always ask for lingon.  I had shrimp on skewers and french fries.  They have the best fries I have had anywhere.  My stomach was mostly ok but the butter on the shrimp bothered a little.

    Photos are some from today and some old.  I will explain.

                    

Where we ate and my shrimp.

In Lindsborg.  One can see how strong the wind was by the flag.

   

    

These are from a past Midsommarsdag in Lindsborg.  The young man facing me is my cousin.  I cannot tell you how many photos I took to get just this one.  It is perfect.

The first one is just a photo I took with no intentions.  He is nowhere near the pole but looks like his foot is on it.  I could never have gotten this if I had tried.

Farm photos and a church steeple but I cannot remember where I was when I took it.