Day Forty Eight...

THE SEVENTEENTH OF TWENTY EIGHT THINGS I SEE BETWEEN MY HOUSE AND THE HIGHWAY...in no particular order...

Right smack dab in the middle of the road between the St. Peter Lutheran Church and the St. Peter Lutheran Cemetery is the Walburg Restaurant. It is a pretty darn famous place in this neck of the woods, and it serves schnitzels and polka music. The food is really good (they even have a buffet on the weekends) and they have beers of all sorts coming out the ying-yang. It is a really interesting building that was most likely a general store or a grocer and dry goods store (as noted on the front of the place). A big hulking building with lots of smokey decorations that have been there for decades. But did I mention that the food is really good? It is definitely worth a visit if you are ever in the neighborhood!

We may have a new cat in the family, we will have to wait and see about this one. Several wees ago,our inside cat woke us up in the middle of the night, and we discovered there was a black cat outside on the patio. As I recall it, we were both surprised that there was an outside cat in the area, given that we have coyotes all around us, and the people we bought the house from cautioned us not to let our cat roam outside at night. But it looked healthy and kind of large, and none of the neighbors we know of have cats. We figured it was a barn cat from somewhere, and we went back to bed and the cat went away. Well, last night there was a younger looking smaller black cat outside the breakfast room, but it looked healthy too. Jody gave it some food, and we figure it will be around forever now. We need to discuss this with our cat, just to make the peace. The dog could not be less annoyed by the whole thing, and he was just interested that something was getting food and he was not getting his share. I think I may have forgotten to report that, the other day I was going out to check on the cattle, and I was in the garage putting on my boots, and a mouse was in my boot. Scared the devil out of both of us, that is fer shure. Anyway, one advantage to an outside cat could be the rodent control. We have some pellets that are supposed to not be harmful to cats and dogs and things like that, but I cannot understand how it can kill one animal and not hurt another. Let me ponder on that for a while...

Today was a beautiful day in Austin...that is if your name is Melody and you live in Connecticut. You see, Melody loves rainy, dreary London-Foggy kind of days, an his was one of those, fer shure! Unfortunately, her husband Bruce has to spend hours in front of the light box, just to keep himself from doing Melody in. Opposites attract! BUT, they are predicting temperatures in the 80's tomorrow, and a bright and sunny day, just before another cold front (whatever) hits our area in a couple of days. We are not complaining about the rain at all, we would just like to have rain and sunshine, thank you very much.

I am spreading my gospel about doing good deeds and letting others know about them. Again, I feel that if you do a good simple deed for someone, and then tell others about it, then that will cause us all to do more good deeds for others. It is the peer pressure, stupid! So, it is interesting that, when I ask folks if they have done a good deed, most of them cannot think of anything nice they have done for anyone else. SO...GET OUT THERE AND SPREAD THE WORD! Do a good deed for someone, and report back to someone you care about that you did it. It does not have to be a BIG something nice, just something nice. Let's see if we can make this go around the world. NOW GET OUT THERE AND SPREAD 'EM!