Our boy

In a far off land, front and center. He needs to come home.

Good news, bad news come again

Here's hoping tomorrow is good news.

So, no early morning walk today cause it was raining. It seems to have stopped now, but it is still gloomy out side, and really gloomy inside.  Because, my big laptop refused to start this am.  It has been experiencing glitches off and on, but this am it was off and would not come on. At least the display would not show.  I suspect when this happens, it is in sleep mode and will not wake up, much like a person ignoring the morning alarm clock.

Now, after about 2 hours of trying to get it going, I have success.  I just hope it is not all temporary. It seems to be running smoother. And it did a Windows update.  I am really hoping it is really fixed and the problem does not return, after a night's computer sleep.

Now, for the image.  That is a screen shot from my phone this am of the National Archives 1950 census search for phones. I tried it on my phone this am, and it worked just like the computer version. Sleek and efficient.   So much so that I found cousin Winnie Jo in just a few minutes of searching.  I will not post the particulars here in case she would not want that, but her father and mother appear at the bottom of one image and she is at the top of the next.  Her father's employment is listed as ass. aircraft foreman at an aircraft M.F.G. and he worked 44 hours that week. Winnie is listed as Never Married.  If you want to know how to find yourself, Winnie, text my phone and I will text you a road map.  Everyone is looking to find themselves nowadays, but maybe our cousin, being related to us, just wants to stay lost.

 

April Fools

 So, I have anticipated seeing myself listed on the 1950 census that was released today by the National Archives.  However, today is April 1, April Fools day.  My name does not appear on that census, Not my mother, not my father, not my brothers, not my sister. My grandparents are listed. Many aunts and uncles are listed.  My husband and all his family with his Rhode cousins living right next door are listed, but not me. I think I will print off a blank 1950 census form and make my own list.  

Irene Bowman (later Irene Trigg), Herald Trigg's wife, was the enumerator. If she had not died years ago, I would call her up and bless her out.

Here is George and his cousins just south of Bakersfield in Kern County.

 

Critters last night

 

Last night just after 8, one lone yearling showed up.  It is coming thru the gate, so I guess it came down son's lane from the road.

It stayed around for about 15 minutes.

And just after midnight we had 3.

They stayed around for about 15 minutes. Other than these, all I had were rabbits.

Settling Habits

Habit: a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.

I have been trying to develop healthy habits in my life. First is walking daily.  I strive for at least a 30 minute steady walk on week days and 1 hour on weekends.  When the weather is gloomy and cold, I have trouble getting motivated to walk.  This is a weird personal problem with me. As long as the day is bright and not gloomy, the temperature does not matter so much to me. Gloomy days make me gloomy.  Today, I started off at 6:40

about 30 minutes before sunup.

It is a half mile to Dan's gate.  I made that in 10 minutes. Another half mile to cemetery road, another 10 minutes. After the turnaround, it is 500 steps up cemetery hill, and 800 or so steps back to Dan's. Uphill combined with stopping to see what the dogs were growling about, the way back takes longer.  I think they detected coyotes.  I did not see any coyotes but I heard howls off in Dan's fields.  We saw one white tale flash up the rock quarry, but both dogs ignored that.

The sun was just over the horizon here.

I was back home at 7:30, making 2 miles in 50 minutes. My fitbit said it was 2525 steps.

I am also working on healthy eating habits.  First, I am trying set eating times.  Breakfast is at 8, even though I usually wake up around 3 am and nearly always by 4 am even on weekends.  Habits really work for sleep. I have tried different breakfasts, but oats, walnuts, dried cranberries with yogurt is what works from me.  Chosen snacks are fruits and nuts. I try to add lots of vegetables to my dinner. For lunch, I often have a sandwich.  I need to switch that to salads and soups, but so far that has not happened. Preparing work lunches at 4 am seems not to be my thing. Free fried chicken is available from 9 am till whenever I leave work, so my main habit for work food needs to be no fired chicken. This is a battle, but I think I am winning.

My other healthy rules include no soft drinks, no making sugary deserts, more fish and unfried chicken, less red meat. I have done fairly well with this until this weekend.  First I made an Oreo Cool Whip layer desert as practice for a birthday desert for work next Thursday.  I am glad I practiced because I am using real whipped cream instead of Cool Whip and I am putting more cream cheese and less sugar in that layer. Any way you cut it, it will never be healthy.  Might as well be really good and unhealthy.

So, for our birthday lunch we are having a huge salad, nachos, and Oreo layer desert.  I will try to eat lots of healthy salad and little else.  If the desert is really good, maybe it will be all gone by the time I finish my salad.  That's my plan anyway.