80º with bright sunshine here in Clarinda at 11:15 am on Thursday. Predicted high of 90º --Saturday to be 97º for high.
Don't have any picture, but have strange tale to tell. A few weeks ago I moved four divots of grass from an area where we will put flowers to a bare spot at southwest corner of our house. For a little over a week I watered them daily and then every other day. Looked like were growing, even with the hot weather and skipped a day. Went out yesterday and found that each of the four spots had been dug up by an animal. Nothing around the little spots, just the area where I had set the grass in. Since the ground was "looser" maybe they were digging for bugs or worms. We have had evidence of a racoon being on the deck about a month ago (little gift lying right by the door to the deck) and had set out trap for four or five days, but never had any results. Would guess, by the tracks around the dug-out grass that it could have been a racoon's paws pulling out the dirt.
This is from yesterday. She is coming along well, though not without some pain. Normal for bringing all the muscles back to work after being abused by the surgery and then somewhat dormant for a bit.
Ran across this old photo of the school building I attended near Oconto, Nebraska starting in the spring of 1947. The room nearest in the photo was for the High School at that time as they went to the 10th grade. When my oldest brother, Roger, graduated from the 8th grade from here they closed the high school part and he went to Callaway. At that time, we--the grade school kids--moved from the far room to the near room for school. The far room was used for putting on plays and meetings when the parents came -- Christmas, etc. -- and sometimes we had recess in there, as well as in the basement during bad weather. The basement windows on the near corner in that picture is where two lady teachers lived when I first started there. It wasn't much of a place, but they got along there.
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According to my Kindle, I have read 32 books so far on it. Have read 10 in print. Just received, and started reading Jonathan Winters book "Winters' Tales" Stories and observations for the unusual. Very good book. After watching several YouTube of his on Johnny Carson old shows, saw where he had written it and found a used softcover for about $4. Well worth it. Am also in the middle of "The Complete Cowboy Reader - Remembering the Open Range", many short stories.
Will have to write some of my memories from there sometime.
I would guess this picture, taken in the classroom, was probably early 1950's. What a cute bunch of kids!
This was a gathering of parents, and some alumni of Lower Lodi school probably in the early 1960's after the school was closed, but the building still there. It was later moved to a farm and incorporated into a house..
GROANER'S CORNER:(( Walking through Chinatown, a tourist is fascinated with all the Chinese restaurants, shops, signs, and banners. He turns a corner and sees a building with the sign, "Hans Olaffsen's Laundry." "Hans Olaffsen?", he muses. "How the heck does that fit in here?" So he walks into the shop and sees an old Chinese gentleman behind the counter. The tourist asks, "How did this place get a name like "Hans Olaffsen's Laundry?" The old man answers, "Is name of owner." The tourist asks, "Well, who and where is the owner?" "Me, is right here," replies the old man. "You? How did you ever get a name like Hans Olaffsen?" "Is simple," says the old man. "Many, many year ago when come to this country, was stand in line at Documentation Center. Man in front was big blonde Swede. Lady look at him and go, "What your name?" He say, "Hans Olaffsen." Then she look at me and go, 'What your name?'" "I say, Sem Ting."
Keepin' on keepin' on, LCM, st
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