8/2026 - Saturday the 1st- MY JOURNEY

 

Today's Name Day:  Per

I have a cousin in Sweden name Per.  Full name is Per Ola.  I have met him.  Nice guy.

    Today went better than I expected.  Last night I was reading email around 4am.  And yikes!!  I saw I worked this weekend.  I quickly texted MH to open & close for me.  Luckily answered right away.  I had a hard time to sleep after that.  I kept changing my alarm time.  I got up much too late but I got me dressed & fed, the cats fed & Daisy fed.  I got more food today so Daisy is ok now.  And I got more V8 Energy drink for me.,  We all are ok now.

    I am tired of trash in my yard.  There is a guy who cleans up messes.  I will gladly pay him to drive out here,  Might have to call him this week & see what he says.  Makes my stress so bad.

    Work was good.  Had a long time artist friend come in to work..  She is now 92.  She lived in a nice house here for many years.   Her house was where my great great grandmother lived &. my great grand mother lived there at the same time.  She gave me a room by room & floor by floor tour once. Only time I ever got in there like that.  Her name is Mary Erickson.  Great artist.  Got to know her & her husband quite well.  Such nice people,

    This week we vote.  And I have an xray on the same day.  Tired. of being busy,  Need some days off,  Not this week,  Think the next week dr, appointmet in Hutch 

    Had our yearly old car show today.  I borrowed on grouping of photos from a friend to share here.  I never go.  Especially when I have trouble walking.

    Not too warm today.  Nice out.  Work was busy.  Lots of people in & out.  Kept me awake.  Had 2 fun people that came in.  No rain in the next couple of days.  There are a couple of days that are maybes.

JR, Dad, Mom, and me

Mom & others

My great grandmother, my grandma Great grandma, me

Love this photo.  Looks like Nico!!

This photo breaks my  heart

Daisy

Museum of singer Lil Babs in Sweden.  While in there she came in so I got to meet her!!

My church in Järvsö

Kalmar castle in Kalmar

My Swedish memories

                                                                             

             

6/2026 - Monday the 22th - MY JOURNEY

 

Memories from last weekend.

Today's Name Day:  Paulina , Paula

I once had a close friend named Paula.  No longer.  Know another Paula.

    Today was an ok day.  Slept really good.  All my stress, anxiety, tiredness caught up with me last night.  Went to bed really early.  Needed lots of rest.  Still today.  Needed to run an errand but it will wait until tomorrow.

    Weather is nice.  No rain or storms here.  High today was 75F.  Very nice.  If only summer could stay this way.  Ha.  Never in Kansas.  In all my years here I remember only one harvest that was nice cool weather.  What a joy.  Only one.  All the rest were hot, windy & dirty.

    Cinder had to cuddle for a while on me after my nap.  Nice.  I closed my laptop to give her the attention.

    Only got an email from JL.  Everyone else was quiet.

    I needed to carry out more trash today.  Too tired & pain is starting from the coming storms tomorrow.

    Did get a text from MM.  A good text.  His boys are still here.  Good for the 3 of them.  His youngest son is in Wichita with his mom.

Truly my life.  I know lots of people but not friends with anyone.  I am often alone or just with my brother.  I have tried to create friendships but given up.  Never works out for me.

Daisy

                                                                                 

         

5/2026 - Tuesday the 26th - MY JOURNEY

 

Today's Name Day:  Vilhelmina , Vilma

Love the name Vilhelmina but never known anyone with it.  Have known several Wilmas in town and maybe a long ago cousin.

    Today could have been better.  Another sleepless night.  But a nice afternoon nap helped.  Cats stayed near me.  Fed Daisy special foods she likes today.  That is good for her.

    Last night I came nose to nose with a raccoon on the porch.  Not the huge one.  This one thought she would just walk back up to eat.  Nope.  I yelled & she ran away.  Idiot.  Fed Daisy earlier tonight.

    Trash was picked up & the bins were put back where I want them. I am always surprised they do that.

    It is official.  My washer has quit working.  I have tried every setting & not one will spin.  I had a small load I had to empty dripping wet clothes out of it.  What a mess.  No bueno!!!

    I called KN today to ask him to get me a new washer & plug my dryer back in.  He said I will have a new washer this week.  Too close to harvest to fool around & wait.  So tomorrow I am not going to work & will move what will be in his way. I want to be ready so when he is ready it is not big deal. And on the day I will sit in the hall making sure the cats stay put.  They usually just run to hide.  Hope to they are napping in the bedroom.  I can lock them in there.

    I am trying hard to not watch anything on CBS.  I miss our local news people but. I don't watch often.  Couple of times a day.  There are 2 shows on thursday nite I watch & 2 soap operas.  Not giving up shows I enjoy.  I have far too few enjoyable things in my life.  During Covid I quit watching the networks.  Every thing shown were reruns.  I got to where I loved the travel channel, the discovery channel, & anything Josh Gates created.  His reruns are better than anything on the networks.  Their shows are just the same garbage over & over ---- all blood & guts.

    Hot today.  Tired of it.  Rain & cooler weather on the way this week.  Enjoy it while it lasts.  Soon we will only have dust & heat & drought.

    I had 2 photos yesterday that made me cry.  Touched that both Willie & I got remembered.  I am sharing them & will explain.  One is a distant cousin that lives to the far west & NW.  We used to write to each other often but he is not well.  But we still love each other.  He sent me a photo yesterday.  The second photo is of KN & his kids at Willie's grave.  And he said Willie's best friend DD had been there on sunday.  KN said the daisies behind Willies grave are still gorgeous.

    Someone close to me is having trouble dealing with things alone.  Wish I was closer so I could help.  I always deal with things alone.  I try to not bother KN.  He is too busy.  There is no one else.  There could be but those people do not want to help me in any way.  I would pay dearly to get help.

    How wonderful to have a friend that would just call to go have coffee, or lunch, or shopping somewhere, etc.  I have no one.  Everyone else has true friends to them but not to me.  I am always left out.  

Dad in WWII.  Probably in Guam or India or China.

No idea why I took this but I am part of a group who post photos that make no sense.  It is going there.

Cool cloud.

I love this one with the light shining through it.

AI playing.  I can only dream of looking so good.