The weatherman has been treating us very well this week. We have had some hot and sultry days but when evening comes, a cool breeze blows up from one direction or another and we have had absolutely perfect weather for sleeping. Every morning I am awakened by a chorus of birds singing their hearts out to welcome me to a new morning. Don’t ask me what kind of birds they are, but they sing beautifully. As I have lived on a farm all of my life with large groves of trees which housed many and various kinds of birds, I paid very little attention to them as they were always there. I hardly know one kind of bird from another. I know a robin when I see it and a cardinal because they are red and I think that is the end of my knowledge. I love to hear them sing but I don’t appreciate it when they want to build a nest in the roof of my deck. I am also very happy that they like to eat worms, but when the robins started pulling my onions out this spring I really didn’t appreciate that either. I hope you are living where you can hear the birds in the early morning. If we would all wake up as good-natured as they are what a wonderful world it would be. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Henrietta Huenink and her family on the passing of her mother, Dena Korthals. Funeral services were in Steen Reformed Church Friday afternoon with burial in Eastside Cemetery. Family members coming from a distance were Christina Pierce, Sioux City, Iowa, Evelyn Veenker, Lake Park, Iowa, Margaret Harberts and husband, Orville, George, Iowa. the Rev. Edward Korthals and his wife, Thelma, Buffalo, Frederick Korthals and his wife, Bonnie, Worthington, Maurice Korthals and his wife, Ruth, Omaha, Neb., and Dorothy Sides, Friendsville Tenn. Also surviving are 44 grandchildren, 92 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchildren. Last week I reported Evelyn Tilstra had gone home from the hospital. That is an error as she is still a patient at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls. Sorry about that. Mildred Paulsen attended a four county local Advisory Board meeting Monday evening at the Family Services building in Luverne.Our deepest sympathy goes out to GaWaine Deikevers and his family whose nephew, Trevor Tedejman, was killed in an automobile accident on Monday. Congratulations to Ken Van Batavia, son of Marlin and Minnie VanBatavia, and Rebecca Groen who were united in marriage Saturday afternoon at Steen Reformed Church. Darrell Bosch and his daughter, Robin, Blacksburg, Va., came Sunday to visit in the home of his parents, Bill and Bertha Bosch. They plan to return to their home on Tuesday.Shirley (Paulsen) Longnecker, Mt. Dora, Fla., arrived by plane on Wednesday in Sioux Falls to visit her mother, Laura Paulsen, Hills, and her brother, Melvin and wife, JoAnn Paulsen and other relatives in the area and to attend her class reunion on Saturday. On Thursday, Melvin and JoAnn Paulsen, Laura Paulsen and Shirley Longnecker met their sister, Donna May Randall, Long Prairie, and Glen and Marla Paulsen and family, Sioux Falls, at the Luverne Pizza Ranch for dinner. Friday Melvin and Joann Paulsen, Laura Paulsen and Shirley Longnecker met Donna Mae Randall at Worthington at the Travelodge for a time of visiting and dinner. Shirley Longnecker joined three of her classmates of 1955 and others from the classes of ‘53, ’54 and ’55 Saturday evening at the Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls. Shirley left for her home in Mt. Dora, Fla., on Tuesday. Dries Bosch was hospitalized Thursday afternoon at Luverne Hospital. After being treated for dehydration he was able to return home on Saturday afternoon. Pete and Judy Boeve, Sioux Falls, were Sunday evening supper guests in the home of her mother, Henrietta Huenink.A Thursday morning brunch was at the Dries and Laura May Bosch home. Those attending were Shirley Longnecker, Mt. Dora, Cena Mae Tilstra, Darlene Bosch, Anna Elbers, all from Luverne, JoAnn Paulsen, Gert Hup, Hills, Henrietta Boeve and Melba Boeve. Cena Mae Tilstra and Jean Jacobson Tilstra met Shirley Longnecker at the Country Kitchen where they enjoyed lunch together on Saturday. The last few weeks I have been on the serious side so this week I thought we would stay on the lighter side.As we grow older it becomes even more difficult to change our lives, and lifestyles have certainly changed in the last few years. Everything is computers and push button machines. Since technology was never my favorite subject I am having a difficult time adjusting. Most of the changes we cannot do much about as it does and will affect everyone of us as the years go by. But it is better to laugh about it as to cry. I would like to share these words of wisdom with you. It is later than you think; everything is farther away now than it used to be. It’s twice as far to the corner — and they added a hill.I’ve given up running for the bus; it leaves faster than it used to.It seems to me they are making steps steeper than in the old days and have you noticed the smaller print they use in the newspapers?There is no sense asking anyone to read aloud … everyone speaks in such a low voice I can scarcely hear them. Material in dresses is so skimpy, especially around the hips. It’s all but impossible to reach my shoelaces. Even people are changing; they are much younger than they used to be when I was their age. On the other hand, people who are my age are much older than I.I ran into an old classmate the other day and she had aged so much she didn’t remember me. I got to thinking about the poor thing while I was combing my hair this morning and I glanced into the mirror at my reflection and confound it, they don’t make mirrors like they used to either!These words of wisdom was only signed "Anonymous!" Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
