The world is advancing so fast, I have to concentrate very hard and be willing to change my thinking or I’ll fall off. For example: “The dairy industry.”
In the robotic milking system, the cows milk themselves when they feel like it. One at a time, they stroll up to the milking station, nudge open the gate and step inside. A robotic arm swings down, sanitizes each teat and attaches laser-guided suction cups to extract the milk. The cow munches on a snack dispensed by the machine as an incentive. The robotic milking system handles all record keeping at the same time.
Should something go wrong, the person on duty gets an alert on his smartphone.
How do I know the robotic milking system mentioned above to be fact? Because a dairy farmer near Sauk Center, Minnesota, has this system. His name is Paul Reitsma – a brother to Julie Ehlers of Albert Lea.
Bells and whistles went off on TV channel 6 in the early morning. We caught the tail end of the message as it said, “Stay with your vehicle.” That was a Saturday warning so we complied by staying inside our house with the cars in the garage till noon on Monday.
Apparently most of the are residents got the message as very few area churches had any members in the pews Sunday morning. (By the way, this was also the first time any area church was closed due to a blizzard in 2020.)
Message in an area Lutheran Church monthly newsletter: “Coming soon, a guess when the snow will all be gone in our parking lot. Details to follow.”
Genie and I went to Perkins on a Monday evening to enjoy a meal topped off with a free piece of pie. We were escorted to a booth of our choice. As we sat down, I took my heavy winter coat off while leaving my Korean War Veteran cap on. We placed our food order, got the food and started eating. The waitress came over and handed me a Perkins gift card saying, “This is for you.” I looked at it as she said, “It is for you from a young father and his daughter,” as they paid their bill. It was a $20 gift card. Father and daughter, you can be sure Genie and I will “Pay it forward.” We thank you.
January had a number of snow days, one of which was my birthday. Genie and I managed to make it to the Old Mill restaurant in Austin for my birthday. Upon finishing our meal, the waiter brought a complimentary Sunday with two spoons. When we finished, he presented the guest check with a 10% Veteran’s discount.
Are you aware of the new way of putting birthday candles on a cake? Your cake has the same number of candles as the last digit of your birthday. Thus as an octogenarian my cake has three candles. It most certainly made it easy to blow them out.
I look out the window of our house and see our spectrum neighbor trying to drive the spectrum vehicle away from the curbs. I go over to help, we shovel and push. Our neighbor, Muscles comes to our aid. Muscles comes to our aid. Muscles is a bossy type of person and points to the driver, “You drive.” Muscles points to me,” You push from the right side in the front, I’ll push from the left.” We comply and the vehicle backs out. As Muscles leaves, she says, “Have a good day boys,” and walks back to her house. Readers, Muscles is one great neighbor.