Today found out that our sister-in-law I wrote about yesterday is dropping a bit faster. They now are giving her morphine every 2 hours instead of 4 hours. Doctors are a bit vague about how much time she has left, but everyone has been told to visit her in the mornings only as soon as possible. Saturday morning my wife and her oldest daughter will be dropping by to visit and my wife said, probably be the last time she will see her until the funeral. Very sad really, to see this great woman slide so fast and look so sick (can’t think of another word to describe how she looks without getting gross on you all).

Then last night, our daughter told wife that her husband’s older brother has been diagnosed with cancer of the kidney. They will be taking out one of the kidneys soon, plus check him carefully to see if the cancer has spread. Everyone is hoping that the cancer is only in the kidney and removing the kidney removes the cancer for good. He has been a bit weak for some time, and skinny.

Today one of my wife’s sisters came this way from Coralville (east end of Iowa) with 3 Korean ladies (one who had her 2 kids with her). Some connection between university in Seoul and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, plus the sister’s church. They all wanted to come to Madison County and visit all the covered bridges. So Becky (my wife if you have forgot already) met them in Winterset and they went to lunch after visiting John Wayne’s birthplace and seeing his new statue. After they went to the park in there to see the Cutler bridge. Then walk (the road was blocked off) up to see the stone tower. Well, Becky left then as no way she was going to walk uphill about a mile or so to see the tower (she did that once before and swore no more walking up there again for her). Anyways, to make a long story short, her sister called from Coralville a little over an hour ago. Seems the Korean lady left her camera on the table at the park! Yes, all the pictures she had taken on her journey around the USA and Canada (she said she has drove about the same distance that it is by air from Korea to here,  about 6,000 miles). So Becky called Marcia (cousin, Aunt Louise’s daughter) and Marcia called a friend of hers in Winterset. Guess what? He went to the park and the camera was still on the table! How about that for good news to offset a little bit the sad news we been getting? In the morning, Becky will go to Winterset and pick the camera up. Return it this saturday when everyone gets together for the baby shower in Des Moines (Marcia’s first granddaughter!) I bet there were some good Korean words used when the lady found out her camera was found and it was safe.

No rain today, but the ground is so saturated that so far the top layer has yet to dry out. Took the hoe to wipe out some weeds that dared to pop up and it was hoeing mud. Hopefully the rain they forecast for tonight and tomorrow does not come here or if it does, it is just a light sprinkling like yesterday.

Hey, got 21 jalapenos picked! Told wife, tomorrow or Sunday got to slice all of them up and pickle them suckers for use later. Finally, a use for the dill plants growing wild at the other end of the building.

With our president and his liberal democrat cohorts in charge, are we due to see bread lines like this one?

Bread line during Great Depression
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

And how many of you remember these two? Harpo and Groucho Marx? (no relation to Karl Marx)

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