George Shirley wrote:
Derald wrote:
George Shirley wrote:

The only good thing about getting old is that is better than the
alternative.
Oh, I don't know.... I know one old guy who is enjoying the
lowered expectations of the world at large: Hell, old farts are
_expected_ to dither.

Yeah, I know some too, I'm still married to the same woman for 55 years. G

i think it's great that someone can be with someone
else for that long.


I have a list of places I go, the barbershop, the grocery store, a
nearby Big Lots, and the library, mostly to the library. Wife likes
trips, the dog and I like it when she's on one but are also happy when
she gets home. We have two kids, five grand kids, and six great grands,
we live within a few miles of all of them but we seldom see them,
they're young and busy, we're old and lazy.

i always get a smile remembering someone sing a song
called, "How can I miss you if you won't go away?" as
it pretty much describes me and how much of a homebody
i can be. luckily the balance here is doing fine as
Ma goes out and visits her friends and does stuff and
that gives me time to do other things. the other night
when she was out i played some rock concerts and was
a general pest to the neighboring animals for a change.



I've been declared dead twice by doctors but I'm still here so there
must be something in my favor. Could be a loving dog and a garden to
peruse and sometimes am allowed to work on and in. It could be worse, I
could be in prison or dead. I just take it a day at a time and try to
stay happy.

perhaps they could tell how pickled you were already?
i dunno, my own philosophy has been that
every day is a gift and to try to enjoy it as much as i
can, but it wasn't until i was 25 or so that i reached
a more stable and even approach. happiness is to some
extent a choice. i was born premie and had several
episodes of not breathing and such that were caught by
the nurses. i'm quiet, hate loud noises (especially
in the morning) and really appreciate a good hug, a
good book and the gardens here...


Picked a two-gallon bucket of sweet peppers and eggplant today and the
damned things are blooming again. Also picked enough greens from the
winter garden to make a nice salad for dinner tonight. Believe it or not
the honey bees are swarming our flower beds and gardens, winter must be
close, there were hundreds of them out there today.

not seen any bees around lately. just found a
very tiny nest of some kind of bee on a branch of
a cedar tree, a small mud nest that looks like a
tiny little pot. i've kept it so i can take a
picture of it sometime (when i get a camera again).

fresh green salads... we'll be on California
rations again now *sigh* for fresh stuff and using
up what we've put up. started talking about making
some shortcakes again already.

we've had enough hard frosts now that nothing is
left other than a few dry bean pods that i'll find as
i rake up and bury the plants. the brussels sprouts
are out now, carrots are out, beets are out and
pickled.

we've had the live trap out seeing if we could get
the raccoon that has been going around and moving
things and digging in some areas. up until last
night we've had no luck but finally it is in the
trap this morning, we'll take it for a trip later to
a better home. we also saw yesterday the semi-feral
cat that has been coming through now hunting rabbits
etc. it's not a particularly large cat, but it makes
up for size by being persistent. weeks ago i saw
the tail end of a chase where it caught a rabbit that
was nearly as large as the cat. it's welcome to
what it can catch out there, the coyotes and foxes
don't seem to come in this close and so we always
seem to have rabbits and chipmunks around (even after
trapping nearly 40 of them this season). mice and
voles applenty too.


songbird