I've started my 2018 house journal. When I get old, I will enjoy reading all of the journals and scheduled calendars of events that I kept. All the trips, all the antiquing, all the gatherings of family and friends through out the years. It's a good thing to do. Also, it helps get out any aggression that that one might harbor. The journals are fat with cards and letters and dates of events and observations, it's cathodic to say the least. I also have put together nine enormous albums of pictures and family histories, one being all the weddings that branched from the Lechler's unions. It takes time, but I do it when the mood hits I get in the groove and lose track of time in the tracing and arranging. My niece, Nancy, came for the week end one time and we did our Anderson side of the family going way back in history. She's better at getting it straight than I am but I remember one interesting relative that I would like to have known, Georgia Belle.
Every day I have a big pot of soup burbling on the stove ready at a moments notice. I start it in the morning and it solves worrying about what to fix for dinner. Everyone has such busy schedules, but the soup disappears and thoughts of the next take its place.
Along with the rest of the country, we are in a deep freeze here in Columbus, The sun is shining, but it is deceivingly cheerful. Nonetheless, we know spring always appears and that is something to look forward to. Next week we must get out of this warm cocoon and prepare for busy several days. Then we have to deal with February and then spring will be on the doorstep. (I don't want to rush time, but can't help looking forward to the next season because I am cold!)
This is a sample of my trip and show and entertaining journals from 1979 to 2006. How did I do it?
