Our annual church meeting was held on Sunday morning, January 24, 2021. You had your choice of sitting inside maintaining adequate distancing while wearing a mask or the other choice was sitting in your vehicle listening to the meeting on your F.M. radio. Genie and I listened to the F.M. radio. An interesting way of voting from the car was the Simon says thumbs up or Simon says thumbs down as an usher counted your vote as he looked out at the parking lot while standing inside the church entry wearing a mask.
Comments regarding the virus:
1. An old timer was told to cheer up, the virus could be worse, so he did. Sure enough, a new and more contagious strain arrived on the scene.
2. The seven-year itch is a piece of cake compared to the virus itch to get back to normal.
3. Ole lives on the side of the street that is Minnesota in Emmons; the other side of the street is Iowa. Ole found out the positivity rate was one out of seven in Minnesota and one out of five in Iowa after his virus Minnesota negative check. Ole felt sorry for his across the street neighbors so he moved across street. Ole is now happy, as positivity rate is now one out of six on both sides of the street in Emmons.
4. Instead of the frozen water complaints being the biggest home problem this winter; the biggest complaint this winter is walls are closing in.
5. Lena is one tough Norwegian Lady. Ole was one incapacitated Norwegian hubby. Lena bragged as to both of them having the virus as she maintained her daily walk to the refrigerator and back to the recliner without saying UFFDA!
The rest of this column is a running of the words:
1. The Hy-Vee TV ad with meat on the grill sizzling is so good I could smell it. (Our TV is of the older model with no smell sensor.)
2. Do you know Linda who lives in Elysian? Say “Hi,” if you do.
3. An agate stone was accidently broken in half. Each half was a great exact picture of the cookie monster. Both sides sold for $10,000 or $5,000 each per the Good Morning America TV show. I wonder what ad agency the girl scouts hired for the promotion? (As you know this is the time of the year for Girl Scout cookies.)
4. A few years ago at the big fishing contest on Gull Lake by Brainerd, the girl scouts sat on top of a big mound of snow as you drove in to enter the contest with about 100,000 entrants. The Girl Scout troop at that location sold the most cookies of any troop in the U.S. There were some complaints that one of the Girl Scout leaders had access to the routing of all Girl Scout cookies in the upper Midwest. Even though many orders to the upper Midwest were filled after the fishing contest was over, all orders were filled.
6. F.R.O.G. of Central Freeborn Lutheran Church has been taking a bus to Lutheran night at the Twins every year. The game is scheduled Monday, July 26, 2021 at 7:10 p.m. playing the Detroit Tigers. Wayne Idrelie and I are the Co-Chairs of F.R.O.G. The Twins are holding 57 reserved seats in section 314 behind home plate for us. Wayne and I have decided to wait until after the season starts and we have a better idea as to how the virus will affect the bus; so hold on until at least May 1. Thanks.
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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 New York. 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.