Each evening I write a sentence or two about our day on a calendar I keep on my dresser. I am always confined by the 1.5 inch square space and so my daily entries are brief and don't include everything we did in a day. Here are May's entries:
May 1--Grilled hamburgers and made cinnamon rolls and iced coffee for Mel & Bri. John putting cattle out--got kicked.
May 2--Planted a row of beets and 3 rows flowers, 3 pots of impatiens, and planted petunias in the cast iron pot by the road.
May 3--Jon here for lunch, made supper for Bri & Mel. John planting Jon's corn on Jim's.
May 4--prayers for a troubled friend.
May 5--Mindy and boys had a car accident but praise the Lord no one was hurt. So grateful.
May 6--Nap this afternoon. Set out some plants. John moving cattle.
May 7--Watched boys for several hours today, fun!
May 8--Watered all 20-some tomato plants and porch flowers.
May 9--Wonderful Mother's Day--I didn't cook, ordered pizza and the kids brought sides!
May 10--Eye exam. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved for ages 12-16.
May 11--Grands busy with baseball. We took the two youngest boys to practice in one town while Mel took oldest grandson to practice at a town twenty miles away. Cold, in the 50's, windy.
May 12--Stewed a chicken, baked a roast, browned 3 pounds of hamburger. Hemmed pants for Daniel. John took ten cows to sale.
May 13--Got a tetanus shot (no pertussis) -- had cut my hand on a barbed wire fence. Did some writing on my current book. Grilled a dozen hamburgers. John applying fertilizer.
May 14--Headache and bodyaches from tetanus shot. Jon here for lunch. He did some spraying, it rained this evening.
May 15--Watched Bekah this morning while Jon helped Bri with bathroom remodel at Brian and Mindy's.
May 16--Washed windows on front of house, vacuumed and dusted. Heavy rain.
May 17--Emergency dental appointment, the dentist removed a bridge for me and replaced it with a temp, I will have to have today's work replaced with a permanent bridge.
May 18--rested, watched My Fair Lady
May 19--Got my new glasses. Isaac has a spider bite.
May 20--John had a colonoscopy with a scary outcome. He will have to have surgery.
May 21--Picked up contrast barium for John's CT scan Monday.
May 22--Washed bedding in downstairs bedrooms and cleaned upstairs.
May 23--Neighbors' dogs chased our cattle, stranded one cow out in a pond. John ran them off.
May 24--Logan got a home run! Daniel got a good hit and scored!
May 25--John picked up his new glasses. I got a lens check and remake.
May 26--At home day, hot and muggy out. Daniel and Rebekah had baseball games.
May 27--Made and froze a roast in broth for the weekend, John worked on swather.
May 28--Cleaned bathrooms, made spaghetti, walked (for exercise), John installed fan in swather air conditioner.
May 29--Time with Bekah while Jonathan went to his 15 year class reunion.
May 30--John mowed lawn & ditch
Whenever we go for a walk poor John almost always gets his photo taken. I tell him it is because he is so photogenic.
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