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by Mary Lou
Republic County WIFE

September 1, 2000

Start water running to sweet corn and find some sweet corn for lunch.

Eat breakfast.

Make bed, etc.

Water garden.

Switch water to yard sprinkler.

Walk to patch of wild plums and pick a small bucketful.

Wash plums and start cooking.

Read morning paper.

Write letters, pay bills and send e-mails to clear desk.

Start bread machine honey wheat bread.

Lunch.

Start plums dripping for juice for jelly.

Sort some pictures for CyberSpace Farm web site.

Take bread to family of friend who died.

Attend hearing session of Congressman Jerry Moran.

Go to football games for Junior High and High School grandsons.

Take a thank you gift by to a friend.

Fix supper and eat.

Bake sheet cake for a funeral lunch for next day.

Make sauce from the rest of the plums after juice for jelly was dripped out.

Off to bed.