Friday, October 16, 2026

I'm baaaaaaack! In May of 2025 daily blogging was getting rather old and tiresome, and I gave it up. A year and a half later things have changed. At the suggestion of cousins I accepted the passage of time and rearranged my arrangements. One part of that was to quit driving. My record as a driver made that a reasonable proposition, and its results have been both positive and negative. On the positive side, it eliminates the chance (likelihood?) that my clumsiness might kill myself or somebody else. It also frees me from the bother of owning and maintaining a car. On the negative side is the occasional inconvenience of having to be chauffeured anywhere that's farther away than I have the time or inclination to walk. The other major change was to give up living down on the old family farm in Parkerfield. I now live in an apartment in Winfield. The building has only five apartments, and is adjacent to an old folks' home called Winfield Rest Haven. That's helpful because I can go eat in the dining room with the geezers and don't have to rustle my own grub. When I'm aggravated over something I can't do anymore, I can go in that dining room and look around. All the walkers and wheels chairs remind me that I'm not so bad off after all. I can still put one foot in front of he other and walk where I aim to go. In fact, the walking serves as recreation, exercise, and a convenience.  For shopping, the Walmart is about a mile away. The publc library and my doctor's office are a little over a mile to the north, and the downtown business area is about a mile northwest. I don't know of anything I need to buy right now, but today I went for a walk and went only around one block because the chilly wind persuaded me I should get back inside. The ten day forecast says more pleasant weather will return in a few days.

Saturday, October 17, 2026 Saturday evening is Treat Night. Instead of going to eat with the old folks in the dining room, I stayed in my own quarters and had potato chips, cookies, and ice cream. I don't worry about one meal during the week making me fat. So what was my main activity today? Walking. I spent a couple of hours hiking up to Ninth Avenue and back home. Even if I don't need to buy anything, I want to get out and exercise while I still can. I don't aim to be one of those old people who sit around and deteriorate to the point of being bed-bound. Sunday, October 18, 2026  And what is currently driving me nuts? That would be dealing with daily blogging. The details of editing, adding photos, and posting the results online are easily forgotten. I used to have the process down to a few minutes. Now I'm spending up to three hours trying to relearn the details that used to be so easy. I just rediscovered how to compose and edit the entries on my computer. I'm able to read this as I type, and to the right is a photo showing me in front of my desktop. Now the question is how I can get it to show up online as I see it here.