03/2024 Onsdag the 20th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

National Ravioli Day

Today's Name Day:  Joakim, Kim

    What a great day!!! I took an anxiety pill when I went to bed last night & slept all night, And so did Cinder next to me. About time.

    I got up a bit early.  Kisse got up with me but I never saw Cinder.  I got dressed & went ou tthe door,  I decided to eat lunch at the White Peacock.  Good food,  It is my goal to try to go out more instead of sitting home feeling sorry for myself.

    At the Peacock there was a large group of women meeting together.  I knew many of them. They left & another large group of women came in.  I knew many of them & even went to school with  of  couple.  I have never ever been included in any kind of group.  Would be fun.  But I know better.  When I was president of the Swedish group there were 5 of us cousins in the group.  They all ate out often but never included me.  I have never figured out what is wrong with me.  Something is.  But life goes on.  I say hello & smile & talk but it never matters.  I stay invisible,

    After lunch I went to the Old Milll Museum to work.  They were both really busy so I just worked.  Got a lot done.  We did get to visit a little though.

    After work I picked up JR for supper.  Back to Jalisco's.  Good to be there again,  The boss's parents are on their way here from Mexico for his brother's birthday.  Be great to see them again.  Love them.

    Dessert was Indigo Moo'd for ice cream.

    Next we went to the Elmwood Cemetery in town.  Put several solar lights on graves ---- our parents & grandparents.  I noticed a familiar last name on a near headstone.  Then JR checked the first name for me.  When I heard it I burst into tears,  Someone special from my past as a nurse.  I am still teary now.

    Then we went to our mom's twin sister's grave.  She was born dead but they were born on different days since her sister was born before midnight.  While at her grave I found another family ancestor who I just recently discovered had a second marriage I never knew of.  I did know that the second wife & her family are buried in the same cemetery.  And we found them near our parents.  Tomorrow I research more to double check they are who I think they are,  Very interesting.  Genealogy is always interesting.  Now I just need some free time!!!  Busy week though.

    Last night I had some plans presented to me about some future plans that were just too good to be true.  I no longer dream of travel &/or fun.  It is not a part of my life.  The thought of such a cool event was overwhelming.  Pretty sure today it will not happen.  (No wonder I am teary.) No problem.  But makes me sad for giving in to a brief moment of excitement.

    There is an event in town on friday,  I usually ignore things like this but I have decided I will be there.  JR may be there but he can do what he wants.  I will be there.  Really odd for me.  Usually I have no one to be with for one reason or another,  Kind of excited now.

    Spring is here but now there is snow forecast.  Yay!!!  Gonna be some very unhappy summer people.  Tough!!

    Photos today are from this afternoon,  Might have saved too many,  See if I can weed some out,

                        

03/2024 Tisdag the19th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

Spring Begins March 19, at 10:06 P.M. CDT

Today's Name Day: Josef, Josefina

    Great day.  Cinder barely left my side all night.  Very nice.  She went out when it was lunch time but came in after I got home from town.  She is sleeping inside on top of the washing machine.

    MM called me this morning & asked me to go to lunch.  He has a job later so he had some time to kill.  We met at Jalisco's.  And they were packed!! If I had been 10 minutes later I would have had no where to sit.

    The one worker's birthday is today.  His brother tried to tell me he is 43 but in reality he is 23.  He came by my booth one time sort of skipping & laughing so I asked if he is just thrilled about his birthday!!  He laughed!  Fun meal!

    After eating I went back to the Smoky Hill Cemetery.  I found my solar lights so went to put some on graves.  I put one on Willie's grave & on MM's father's grave.  Then I went to my friend John's grave.  It was a mess.  I removed all the old old flowers.  I had some extras in the trunk of my car.  It looks so much better.  And I added a solar light too.  I am glad I still care for my friend.

    No nap today.  I should have but I had photos to  work on & my blog to write.

    Too warm today.  In the 70s.  I have the AC on but it is not cooling much.  Have a call in to who fixes it for me.  Cool front coming so not too worried.  They will be here on friday.

    Photos today are from the cemetery.

                                

Willie & I

Friend John who was also great artist

Well known tree.  Very familiar.

Distant relative

White graves are my great great grandparents

Interesting tombstone

07 June 2023 Wandering & Capturing Moments

Still no laptop. Hopefully my charger comes tomorrow and it works. Or I buy a new laptop.  Great!

Today I worked at the Old Mill. And the scanner would not scan.  My boss tried all sorts of things but nothing.  Finally our coworker tried.  He figured out a workaround.  Only took three times as long to scan each photo.  But it worked. 

Ate supper at Jalisco’s. I had no appetite. Same at lunch.

Checked the cemetery before work. Flowers ok. I am positive than ever who is guilty. But what to do?  It scares me a bit. But others know who if something happens to me.

Photos are a mix. I took most of them. 

04 june, 2023 Wandering & Capturing Moments

    No rain last night or today.  Heavy fog early this morning.  Now they say maybe rain tomorrow.  It was too hot for me today.  Got up to 90F.  At night it stays in the 60s.  Cooler would be better.

    A sad day for me.  Kisse somehow escaped last night & have not see or heard her again.  I am missing my baby.  Trying not to be too hopeful but she is frail & no experience outside.  Why does karma always attack me?  And now her?  My entire life.  Wish I knew what I did as a child to affect my life?  Or in a past life.

    JR & I ate at Pizza Hut tonight.  Good pizza.  And a surprise gift from a friend there!  Before we left 2 of the Jalisco kitchen helpers came in.  Fun to see them.  And a hug!!

    On the way home I saw a cloud I wanted a photo of but not with all the wires in it.  So I drove to the cemetery to get a nice photo.  Thankfully I did that.  Every single flower I had in Willie's headstone was ripped out & tossed all over his grave.  I saw no other grave like that.  I doubt there was that strong a wind to just hurt his grave.  I have an idea who would have done that & I am quite upset over that.  Why are people so mean?

    Photos today are from this afternoon.  The photo of the tree in the cemetery is a common one to see.  It is a cool tree.  The headstone with a bird is a meadow lark.  Sun is too bright to see it plainly.  Editing did not help.  Our state bird.  At home I saw an oriole in a tree.  Gorgeous.  The snowy photo is my fave place in Sweden --- Marstrand.  Oh, to be there again.

                    

   

Wandering, 02 march 2022

    Well I have good news and bad news.  Kisse is back sort of.  Last night as Nico and I were going to bed around midnight, Kisse was in the hallway.  Suddenly.  Hmmm.  Today she was all loving on me this morning.  Then she disappeared again today.  She has found a way to get out.  Think I know where.  Not quite as stressed as I was yesterday.  See if she shows up tonight.  And she is no doubt pregnant by now.  Just what I need.

    No call yet from my furnace guy.  He thought it would be today.  And I cancelled most of the day.  Hopefully.  It is awful trying to guess if I should cancel things or not.  Wish he would just call some other furnace guy to see if he has the parts.  Felt ok in the house last night.  Still could not sleep.  Finally moved to the sofa.  Why that helps beats me.

    Great weather today.  I ^love^ summer weather in March when I have no AC.  The high today on my farm here was 88F.  ^Just delightful^.

    I was rather tired with little sleep last night until this morning.  A nap helped.

    Watched KN with a new calf and its mom.  The little one needs an ear tag so we know who belongs to who.  Mom was not pleased.  She paced around KN.  All was well in the end.  Always scares me to watch though.  And since my husband died after a cow shoved him down and he hit his head and then 2 weeks later he had a huge bleed in his brain.  A week later he was gone but never responded during that week.

    PM ate with us tonight.  He and I got to talking about cemeteries and small towns.  We agreed we love to drive on country roads and meander around.  Perfect word.  And we had visited some same ones and churches in small towns.  West of here are many German Catholic churches.  I love them.  The saddest are a few that are not used anymore.  But there is one tiny town that is not German.  It is French Canadian catholics.  Their church is gorgeous.  And I love the little town.  It is so unique.

       Photos are just ones from around here and town.

                        

   

Wandering Through Life, 30 august 2021

    The cool weather is gone.  I saw 90F. Tonight little breeze.  Tried to sit out with Nico but there were little bugs that kept bothering me so inside we went.

    I had a lunch date with a friend but their plans changed.  No biggie.  And since I had my makeup on and clothes on I decided to head there for supper.  And I had a screen protector ordered for my new phone and JS was going to put it on.  Another reason to go eat out.  New protector is on.  The one cook came out to sit with me for a few minutes.  I like him.  When he was back in Mexico he used too call me here.  No idea why.  There was a lady there who spoke good English who helped us talk.  Then he moved and the calls stopped.  Maybe he used her phone also.  No idea.

    On the way home I stopped at Coronado Heights.  There is a group that go up there once a week to hike, run, exercise, etc.  When I left, the road had cars going both directions and people all over running or walking.  That was a new experience. 

    I stopped in the cemetery to say “hello” to Willie. God, I miss him.  We were together for close to 60 years if you count our dating.  Life just sucks.  I had other people to say “hello” to also.

    All the photos are taken this afternoon. Lots of sunflowers.  LOve them.  Even a few in my yard.