Yesterday's Sights

Yesterday, Husband and I made our annual pilgrimage to the accountant's office in a nearby town. He's a CPA/Farmer/Collector........his office walls and shelves are loaded with farm memorabilia. High atop a display case was this old photograph of the Artesian, Iowa.......dated "1910" on the back. Of course, my camera was in my purse, so I snapped a photo of this photo. The accountant's grandfather is in the photo. Click the photo to enlarge it and see the farmers from yesterday looking back at you.

After the tax appointment---whew, what a relief to have that over with---we ran to Waverly so Husband could run an errand. While he was inside this brick building of much character, I tiptoed around outside, trying to discreetly snap a few photos without raising suspicions that I was casing the joint for a future break-in. You just never know what people might think. I saw a funny video the other day about an amateur photographer---as many of us are---who got arrested for taking a picture of a train. He simply wanted to snap a photo of a shiny train. Someone thought he was terrorist or something.

Later in the day I ended up driving around some more and happened to see two deer foraging along a creek bank. Hopefully, you can spot them in this next photo. See the white tails hanging down in what I consider the "skunk-look position". Seriously, that is my theory.......the relaxed tails at first glance resemble a skunk's markings, possibly as a protective measure against a sudden encounter with a predator, whose first instinct would be to run away from a stinky skunk. That would give the deer time to start running away from the predator. Its probably not at all correct, but its my theory.

While at the accountant's office yesterday, I received a cell phone call from a UNI doctor.......he had just examined my daughter's congested throat. They ran tests......it is not mono and not strep, so it must be viral, he said. The tests did show that she's somewhat anemic and needs to start taking iron pills to replenish her stores. Her long-standing habit of eating hardly any red meat may be catching up with her. This evening she came home to get a quiet night's sleep, and will stay here and rest tomorrow. My high school son stayed home today, too, with a plugged nose and congested chest. Two weeks of too many basketball games scheduled is catching up with him and other members of the team, plus they run around on cold days with coats unzipped and heads uncovered. What do they expect.......that unzipped coats will somehow cause weather to warm up? Hey, I saw a sure sign of spring today.......a sign saying that the Dairy Queen in Waverly will reopen for the season, tomorrow. That has to mean spring is right around the corner........or perhaps, THE BLIZZARDS ARE COMING, THE BLIZZARDS ARE COMING!

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