This will be another one of my hopscotch articles (you might call it a “running of the bull”).
If you subscribe to a magazine with the mailing address of Harlan, IA, beware of a mail billing for the same magazine only a different address. Genie received the above with a payment to be sent to a Las Vegas address. Being a very (cheap) conservative Norwegian, I noticed the price differential of $49.95 to Las Vegas versus $16.94 to Iowa for one year of Guideposts.
The Minnesota Twins have decided on a repeat good baseball season in 2018 as they had in 2017. How do I know? Because they are spending money to better the hitting and pitching. F.R.O.G. (Fully Rely on God) will be taking a bus to Lutheran Night at the Twins on Tuesday, July 31 this year (details at a later date).
How’s this for a coincidence? Two New Richland High School graduates travel to Northern Minnesota on the same Sunday (Feb. 25, 2018). One of them is an octogenarian; the other is a young guy in comparison. One is at the Eel Pout Festival being entertained, the other is at the Bagley Library entertaining (the two were about 40 miles apart). As you’re reading this in the NRHEG Star Eagle newspaper, the octogenarian’s picture is on the left, the younger fellow is pictured on the right on the same page.
“If March comes in like a lamb, it will go out like a lion.” (Per many years of weather statistics.) March came in like a lamb—temperature was in the forties with bright sun, no clouds and no wind. I even saw a neighbor lady hang her wash outside. I guess this means March will go out like a lion.
Bald eagles pay no attention to old sayings, the Farmer’s Almanac or any weather forecasts. They nest when they want to. They are currently nesting in the same nest as last year in Albert Lea.
Robins are snow watchers. They will only nest after having snow on their back three times. We have seen a mama robin that couldn’t count. She nested before the third snow on her back. Even so, she was one persistent mom-to-be, as she was completely covered in snow, stayed on the job and later hatched the four eggs.
It has been proven that as one gets older their memory bank gets smaller and becomes too full to remember any more things. To combat this problem I attach my brain (memory bank) to our computer. I hook up the left side first and hit the delete key. Then the right side and delete. I’ll admit this does cause a memory loss, but at least my memory is current.
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Bob is a retired AAL (Aid Association for Lutherans) agent, currently working on his master’s degree in Volunteering. His wife, Genie, is a retired RN, currently working on her doctor’s degree in Volunteering. They have two children, Deb in North Carolina, and Dan in Vermont. Bob says if you enjoy his column, let him know. If you don’t enjoy it, keep on reading, it can get worse. Words of wisdom: There is always room for God.