Hello!!! Hey, I have 71 published posts on this blog, so it's worth keeping around. I sure did have a hard time getting to it tonight. I couldn't remember the process. Kalyn has started a blog to document her stay in Spain this summer and it inspired me to revisit mine.

Actually, I have some hard goals this summer. Not hard as in difficult to accomplish, but solid goals that I really want to meet. Blogging and journaling more, like daily, is one of them. I want to become good at writing. And you know, the least that can come of it is me becoming sort of a rock star to future generations of my family. I'll be their favorite ancestor, because I was all over the place, blogging and facebooking and also paper journaling and scrapbooking! Not digital scrapbooking, actual paper and photographs bound in albums. Those will be very cool if they make it to future generations. My actual handwriting is everywhere. That kind of thing is important to me. Future generations will know a lot about my life, if they choose to go back to it.

Reading more is another goal. Smart people read. My mother and my daughter, Kalyn, are readers. They are very smart people, and they are in the habit of going to the library. I am not. I don't read for pleasure, unless it's articles on the internet that interest me. I browse recipes all the time. Well, this week I went to the library.

One day Troy and I were riding in the truck together and he asked me where I thought the expression "Catch 22" came from. I looked it up, because I had no idea. Google took me to Wikipedia, which said it was a book by Joseph Heller and it's often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century. And I didn't know about it or recall ever hearing about it. I have never thought that I would be a good contestant on Jeopardy, but this information pretty much confirmed for me that I would not be. I want to be a smart person, I admire smart people. Maybe I can start by reading some of the classics. That was just the first one to pop up, so it's the book I checked out. I tried to read some today while waiting in the hay field for Troy.

 Which brings me another goal, making myself more useful and helpful for Troy with the farm stuff. He has so much to do, so much on his plate, he is overwhelmed and I have more time in the summer. I just need to jump in and do it. I will begin by going out to the farm in the morning and help Helen butcher chickens. That will be a blog post.

The last big goal is getting rid of stuff. Kalyn is wanting to move out of our house when she returns from Spain, so I can send some things out with her. I went through cabinets in the kitchen tonight and took out things that I don't use often. I put a pile of stuff on the patio outside to deal with tomorrow sometime....storage? Give away? I don't know yet. But out of my kitchen.

Notice I have left off "getting in shape" or "exercising more" because yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah.

I'll be updating.