I graduated from the Therapy Medicare approved on Friday! I started Sept. 1 and ended therapy sessions on Nov. 24. That was 24 trips to Le Mars. You might say “the car knows the way!” There are still some left arm movements that are not like what I had previous to July 2. This arm was put in a non-move able position for 6 weeks so it will take some time to make up for lost time. I’m just thankful for what therapy has done to improve what it has.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving Day. We had Thanksgiving supper and had Steve join us. I had won the top money at the grocery store and splurged on a rib eye for supper. It was delicious! With all the other foods that were also there, we were more than full at the end of the supper!
As we were eating, I asked the others if they could imagine what it would be like to not have much or any of the food we were eating. Those people that are homeless could related to this. It is hard to believe that there are homeless people in Sioux City. They live under bridges or in back alleys even when the temperature is as cold as it is. They pick up food out of the trash cans behind restaurants that “you” have left behind. They keep warm with whatever clothing they can find. There are those homeless that don’t want to be this but have no choice and there are those that choose to be homeless. Count your blessings that you have a roof over your head, heat in the house, food to eat and clothes to wear.
Do you remember when your mother said not to put your tongue on a pump handle when it was cold? If you went outside to pump water and the pump handle had frost or snow on it, it was tempting to “lick” it. Some kid that mother knew did this and it wasn’t a good thing for his tongue. (She never did say what happened to his tongue!) Well, Sunday afternoon I heated up a piece of candy in the microwave and took a spoon to taste it while it was warm. Wrong thing to do! The spoon stuck to the inside of my mouth. I got water quickly but it was too late. The inside of my lips were probably what happened to the tongue on the pump handle. My mouth was swollen so that I looked like I had been in a battle. I lived on Jello and pudding for the rest of the week. I have learned my lesson not to taste hot things!
I went to the School Board meeting on Monday evening. Ginell Wetter was approved by the Boards to be a shared SBO (School Business Official). She follows the previous SBO that left us after 2 weeks. We can be thankful for Joe Mohning and Sandy Downing that have been helping in the vacated position.
Mr. Matt Hansen, Industrial Arts Instructor has been nominated as a finalist for the Trade & Industrial Division’s Teacher of the Year award sponsored by the Association for Career and Technical Education. He will be going to Phoenix for the CareerTech VISION Conference to be honored and participate in the national conference held on Nov. 239 through Dec. 2. Congratulations, Mr. Hansen
The old elementary school is history and is at the landfill. It was taken down when I was at therapy so I missed out on it.
Were you surprised to see the snow on Saturday morning? There was enough to have to scoop. I haven’t heard if we are going to have more snow than we had last year (there wasn’t much). When it gets that cold, up goes the Mid American heat bill. However, feel fortunate we can have heat instead of living in the cold like the homeless.
Going through the Happy Siesta Cookbook (1889-1989) I found some interesting answers to questions that were asked of the residents on a monthly basis. This particular month the residents were asked to share their most unforgettable pets with other residents.
Esther Hewicker: We had a little rat terrier that I thought a lot of. Her name was Rags. She was a house dog and followed me wherever I went. If I went to the barn or the field, she went also but she never followed the men. Just more or less ignored them. My daughter found a baby raccoon and made a pet of him. Had a cage in a tree that had a hole in the trunk for a house. We also had a dog named Lady who had puppies under the cob house. It was an extremely hot summer so my husband moved the puppies out under a lilac bush where it was cooler. Lady tapped at the door and let us know that she wanted them back under the cob house. We put them back in a hurry. When my daughter was in the baby carriage, Lady would jump up with her front feet on the carriage and check to see if she was okay. When we got Lady from a dog pound, she was just full of fleas but so very smart. We often wondered if she might have been in a circus the way she could walk fences. (I happened to know her daughter as I went to school with her.)
December is soon here and with this month comes a full month of activity. Hometown Christmas is Dec. 9. People, as well as towns, have already had their decorations up early as the weather was nice. (Saturday and the snow wouldn’t have been a good time!) Have you seen the decorated yard of a person in Le Mars? There are so many decorations that a person wonders what the electricity bill is! These were up before Saturday.
We, at Faith Lutheran, are looking forward to having a Christmas Eve service at 5 o’clock on Dec. 24. It has been more than five years since we have had that time—always 3 p.m. when my family couldn’t come.
Remember in your thoughts and prayers those who have lost loved ones to death, have had their lives changed, have health problems some of which are terminal, are struggling to make ends meet even though they have a job; help those who desire “wants” are more important than “needs” that prestige isn’t everything and be with those who are still struggling to shorten the distance between family/friends to build a bridge instead of a wall.
I will leave you with this quote from the Happy Siesta Cookbook: “A faithful friend is one of life’s greatest assets.”