Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2026

4/2026 - Fredag den 3:e - MY JOURNEY

 



Flowers at the Old Mill


Today's Name Day:  Ferdinand,  Nanna

    Had a good day..  Had low blood sugar twice overnight.  I had a sick stomach when I went to bed.  I took some meds that helped.  And in thinking about why I came up with an idea of why.  I think it is something I am eating.  Will cut that out of my diet & see if that helps
    Feeling rather alone.  Nothing new.  I texted someone yesterday with no answer back.  A couple of people close to me just plain ignore me.  They have time to post all sorts of things but not to me.  I will adjust.
    Had a painful knee last night.  Normal.  And my skin is so damn dry & it makes me itch.  I bought a different lotion that is supposed to help.  And it was in a rheumatoid arthritis group.  See if it does.
    Cinder actually came to bed & curled up next to me & stayed until 4am.  That almost never happens.  Very nice.  Kisse is still using the pet bed.  Great.
    I fed Miss Kitty this morning & I swear her tummy looks a bit large.  Is she pregnant??? I hope not!!  And she really wants to come in the house.  She almost made it this evening.  Yikes!!!
    LL took today off & ran errands, etc. with her hubby.  So no lunch out today with her.
    Worked at the SVAFC.  Great afternoon.  Quite a few visitors. Six girls from Kansas City came in.  They  were fun, nice & I enjoyed them.  A group came in from Oregon.  The one man with them spent the entire time just talking to me.  I liked him.  He was entertaining!!
    I brought a can of V8 Energy drink.  It is a  healthy energy drink,  The usual ones are not healthy at all.  Should not be sold.  I never got tired at all.
    I also read several books on my Kindle app. on my iPad.  Fun.  Have to buy a couple more books that I found I really like.  I will share what they were. in the photo area.  Sure helped me kill time.
    I pack a few things to take with me to work there.   Right at closing time I had low blood sugar.  I ate one half a chocolate chunk cookie.
    Supper was at Jalisco's with JR.  I hardly heard from him today.  Guess he was busy.
    Was a good friend's birthday today.  And MM celebrated on of his friend's birthday.  Wish I could just ignore mine.  I only had anything close to a celebration when JS lived here.  Once he moved I am ignored except for the usual stuff on FaceBook.  And if it was not broadcast no one would care.
    It was really cloudy when I went to work.  Cool clouds that changed too much by the time I got my iPhone out.  No cattle or llamas before work but all were near my yard when I got home.  Took photos.
    After supper we stopped at the grocery store.  I am out of lunch meat.  JR must have needed things also.  I only got meat.
    Did my spanish lesson.  Not too frustrating.  I almost quit the other night.  And ATR has started saying to me after I get my food "Provecho".  And I knew exactly what he was saying to me -- "enjoy your meal".  He & MS & MA have made a big difference in my learning.  Not once did anyone ever try to help me with Swedish.  What a difference it makes.
    Photos a mix.  Not in any organised order.

Great & fun book about gnomes.  I found that gnomes actually has 2 meanings.  I never knew. 

Photo from another book.  Super fun to read.  Will order a couple of others.

Another book.  Swedish authour.

Very cute book about a Swedish tomten & Santa Claus, that are brothers.  A fun read.

Clouds at my farm.

Coco.

Larry.

Famous singer from Sweden & Europe.  She lived where my cousins live & we were in her museum when she came in.  So fun.  She hugged us both & had our photos taken.  I was honored.  Sad she has passed.


Friends.  Great memories.  Today it is "Coronado's birthday."  He made a perfect Coronado!!

Great grandson Sorion.  Sitting in a bar & not yet in school!!!  Where his Dad worked.

Me & Cinder


White's grocery store

    A rare henbit.  A weed that are always purple.  But one summer I had a couple of them byy my car port that were white.  I looked them up.  White is rare.  Has not happened again.




April in Lindsborg.  Cannot wait for the Jazz Walk!!  Awesome music!!!  And the weekend where chalk drawings appear all over town.  Great fun!!!

Work for me today

Old memories when I was actually happy.  Me with Mom & Dad.  I remember that dress.  Black & green.

Me as a baby.  Think that dress was blue.  Happy then too.  Wish it had lasted, but my grandma died & I had no one in my corner after that.

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Friday, March 8, 2024

03/2024 Fredag the 8th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 


International Women's Day


Today's Name Day: Saga, Siv


    I had a good day but a bad night.  Both my hips & back hurt all night.  I could sleep only 50 minutes at a time.  Then turn over.  Exhausted today.  Could barely walk today.  A challenge.  Have a heating pad on my back now.

    Met my boss for lunch at the White Peacock,  Had my usual ham, mayo, & lingonberry sandwich.  Yummy.  Around the book case from us were 2 guys & 1 lady,  Tonight picked up my take home food for supper at Pizza Hut & the same 3 people were sitting in there.  We all laughed!

    Went in to work.  A friend met me there with a very old book on 4 counties near here wrote in the late 1800s.  So interesting!!  We had a lot of conversation around it.

    I started on a new Swedish Pavilion book.  Not a lot of photos.

    My other coworker has been ill & we both coughed often.  But as the day went on we did get a lot of laughs,  Why can life not be easier???

    I went to  Pizza Hut for French Fries, a chocolate chip cookie & a Pepsi.  The manager & I had a nice visit.  Oh for the fun changes coming to Pizza Hut.  Fun times ahead!

    Home for supper.  But I faded around 8pm & took a nap.  Now I am finally writing my blog.

    My nephew had twin calvesy today.  What cuties they are.  Wish they would wander near my yard so I could get a photo of them!! They did share a video with me.

    It stayed pretty cold today.  And going to work there was freezing drizzle.  There were places in Kansas that got rain but certainly not here.

    Fifty years ago my senior class basketball team won the state championship.  What a memory!!!  So glad I was there.  We were tied & the last shot in no way should have made it in.  But it sure did!!!

    There was a book written in Sweden in Swedish all about Lindsborg KS.  I saw it years ago.  Looked at it again today.  I took photos for my blog from it,  Plus I was surprised how much I understood what was written.  Of course I grew up there & that helped.

                                


This is the book,  I am not sure if there is an English version or not.


Our movie theatre.  And we were wondering where the large letters spelling PLAZA went to.  Threw that question out to a couple of places.


Taken from high up on Coronado Heights.  If there is no traffic I will try to get a shot.


Painting of the King of Sweden by Lester Raymer.  One of my favorites.


I door in the walled in patio at the Lester Raymer studio.  I worked there for around 5 years.


Artist Alba Malm & her husband,

 

Artist Malcom  Esping who worked in metals.  He is holding a wedding crown he made.  All brides in Sweden used to wear a crown at their wedding.  Few do now.  But the churches still have them.  His daughter & I were around the same age in school.  We are friends today,


Artist Frank Reese who did metal sculptures.  One was given to one of our presidents.  His son was in my class & was my Swedish dance partner.


Train that belongs to the Old Mill Museum & it sits in our old town.  I need to walk over to get a good photo of it.














    

9/2026 - Saturday the 26th - MY JOURNEY

  My front yard & Daisy Today's Name Day:   Enar , Einar I knew one Einar.  No need to talk about him.  Did not like him at all.  H...