On 9/25/2017 11:32 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/25/2017 10:47 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/25/2017 7:26 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 9:26 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:
On 9/23/2017 3:44 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/23/2017 1:22 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
...
I seldom buy anything from Walmart, it seems that most of their
items
are from some country I never heard of and the items have a less
than 30
day lifetime.

Â*Â* they have a Made in USA push (sorta) going on
as we are finding more items made here.


My wife buys cloth for sewing up stuff for the grands and
great grands so she stays happy with cheap stuff they have and
the kids
don't keep the stuff long anyway. Heck, I have shirts and slacks
that
are over 20 years old that still fit and aren't worn out as my
daily
clothing is a pair of cheap shorts and a tee shirt that is about
worn
out but feels good. I have good shoes that are older than some
of my
grandchildren and no one knows the difference.

Â*Â* yes, the shorts i have on now are hand-me-downs
from someone else and i've got AC/holes through the
pockets and they are about see through from being
worn so much.Â* i don't wear them outside often as
i prefer to keep the direct sun off my skin most
of the time.Â* just a few minutes here or there for
Vit D and that's it.Â* t-shirt is a few years old
but a work shirt so it has a life span of another
five to ten years.Â* my shoes, i just added a good
layer of rubber to the gardening crocs so they
should last another 10-15 years.Â* i don't spend
money on clothes that often.Â* the used goods
stores are places i will go first.Â* i do need a
replacement pair of jeans for my old ones which
have lasted about 10yrs.Â* i only wear them when
we go out and about.Â* my work pants for the gardens
are hand-me-downs that were going to get thrown
away (i could have had another 15 pair but
compromised at five pair).Â* i suspect they will
last me the rest of my lifetime, very sturdy work
pants from a friend who's company was bought out
by another so they changed the uniform.
unfortunately the shirts were not to my suiting.


George, up early giving the dawg her meds, everyone in this
household
has a bottle of something the doctors said was good for us.
Tomorrow I
will be 78 years old and I don't expect any presents either. G
I'm
aiming, eventually for 100 or more, yeah, that works, sure!

Â*Â* Â* congrats and all that on the BD and being
around and still kicking.Â*


Â*Â* songbird

I'm also very pleased by outliving most of my high school males in
my class. Several died in Vietnam and other fights, some just fell
over dead one day, and a few were deliberately killed by someone
who didn't like them. I liked most of my class mates but a few I
cheered when I read their names in the paper. Every small high
school seems to have a cluster of a-holes, mostly the jocks. Seems
most of the women in that small class are still alive, I don't go
to reunion's very often so don't see to many from 1957. Wife is on
a tear again so I'm laying low, she gets frantic about her garden
and yard and then goes wild. Tried to get her to let me hire
someone for that stuff but she insists on doing it herself, even
with grands and greatgrands two blocks away. Some of her ancestors
were Germans and you know how hard headed they are. G

George

I'll be 78 in a couple of months.Â* Went to an all boys Catholic
high school and for past 10 years there have been reunions for just
the guys but our 60th a couple of months ago included wives.Â* It is
bitter sweet to go their and last one, a classmate I recall jogging
in the park about a year ago was wheeled in by his wife now
suffering from dementia and Parkinson's.Â* Everybody now looks old
which means I look old too.
The guys that look best are those still working or very active.

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the
whole season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.
Pro football players are trying to get something to help out the
older players who are having lots of problems. I never watch
football, basketball, etc. with the exception of baseball, which I
dropped a few years ago when I found that they, too, were getting
lots and lots of money for playing a game. My Dad and I played in
the same league for folks that just liked to play baseball. Dad had
played baseball for money when he was in his teens. Lots of small
teams in Louisiana and Texas charge a a buck to watch the game and
the winner got the loot. Dad says in the twenties that was really a
good thing as he made less than a dollar an hour working in an oil
refinery and then go play baseball somewhere and get a bucket of
money. He told me that many times they had to run for their
transportation to not get beat up by the bystanders that cheered the
other side. Then I went to a high school that didn't have baseball.
Boo hoo. I played first base with the team from my first ship as we
sailors mostly liked baseball over anything else. That was fun and I
was also having fun going to the pistol and rifle ranges and doing
stunts with weapons. Got my first .22 rifle at 5 years of age and a
.45 Auto and a 12 gauge shotgun at 7. Got a whole rack of weapons
here in my office and the only loaded one is beside my bed, a .40
Glock, fine weapon and somewhat lighter than my old Colt .45ACP. I
can't hunt anymore unless I'm in a vehicle due to problems from
strokes years ago, runs in the family and I've got 20 good years so
far from the time of the strokes. Now my legs are starting to give
out due to damage to the nerves.

Gave up on following pro sports years ago.Â* Commercialization has
ruined them.Â* Back when I was a kid, we would go to church, Dad would
drive to Philly, we'd see a double header and be home in time for
dinner.Â* Today it takes that long to play one game.

I like to hunt and shoot but am giving up hunting as all I have
access to is public land and not being handicapped the easy stands to
access are for handicapped only.Â* I have use of all my facilities but
as one friend puts it, if it don't hurt, it don't work.

I have a Glock 23, .40 cal, and it is also hidden away, loaded if I
need it.Â* I hunted deer with a variety of weapons and only one that I
never got a deer with was a pistol. I really liked to bow hunt and
season is on now and lasts til the end of January but park I hunt
does not open until next month and I may try a day or two.Â* Also
applied for a managed hunt in another park which I get in on every 3
years or so.Â* They drive you to the stand, pick you up for lunch and
take you back at end and even find deer and take them out for you.
Texas has a lengthy deer season, and, if I remember, hunters can take
several deer a season. It is not unusual to see deer grazing along
highways and we have deer come up to our back fence here in Houston
area. Seems a lot of Texan's no longer hunt deer, one of my grandson's
still hunts, the other never did hunt. My granddaughter's husband does
hunt and fish so some of that is still in the family. Grandson that
hunts is planning a trip for he and I as I have had a lifetime hunting
and fishing license since they first came out years ago. I will have
to go to the range and do some shooting before I can go as I haven't
fired a firearm in at least fifteen years, lived in cities to much I
guess. Grandson does give us a couple of packages of venison. We still
like the wild meat. My Glock is a 23, bought it used but it shoots
okay. I'm training my left hand to use the pistol as the right hand is
partially paralyzed, strokes again from years ago. I do miss my Colt
.45 ACP, had it since childhood and then gave it to my son. Many male
Texan's got their first guns in early childhood and were taught by
their father's like my Dad. Nowadays the schools are trying to keep
guns from anyone for some ungodly reason. I'm glad we old people and
their older kids went to a different school system.

When my father was a kid in the city, he would take his shotgun, get on
the bus, get off at the end of the line and hunt rabbits.Â* Would not
happen today.

Deer drive me nuts.Â* I can't hunt the ones in the yard as houses are too
close.Â* A couple of years ago, one fall I was eating lunch to look out
and see 4 bucks in my back yard just coming out of velvet.Â* I've counted
as many as 17 in the yard.Â* My Chinese chestnuts are starting to drop
and if the wife is not around I'll pop them in a non-vital area with my
pellet gun.Â* Year before last I shot 6 this way.Â* I've thrown fire
crackers at them, they leave and come back a little latter and I need
more than one fire cracker to chase them.

Seniors in Delaware can hunt and fish free but need to get an exempt
license every year.Â* Hunting license allows 5 deer with only a single
buck but you can buy a second buck permit and as many doe permits as you
want.Â* I heard of one guy that works on an estate that gets 50 deer a
year.Â* Another cook at a golf course got 18 one year.

I could not get our sons interested in hunting.Â* Told a hunting buddy he
was lucky to have a son as addicted to hunting as he was.Â* He said I was
much luckier because all my sons went to college and have good high
paying jobs.Â* They do have interest in guns though.Â* Oldest sons father
in law has a nice holster business and buys guns tax deductible for the
business using them to mold holsters.
From 1963 until 1982, when my Dad died, I was a gunsmith for most of
those years until a job overseas made me blink my eyes and smile when I
saw the salary I made. Beat being a gunsmith but Dad kept it going when
I left until the day he died in his sleep. Came home, sold out all the
tools, etc. gave the money to Mom, went back overseas. Worked in two
foreign countries and several US states and I'm still not rich. G I'm
fairly happy with my long career in industrial safety, wife was an art
teacher and still paints. I sell the occasional safety manual for small
companies and still get enough buy groceries. I think we've done well,
come December 26th we will be married 57 years and have a lot of
memories from our travels and expeditions to here and there.

On 9/25/2017 11:37 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 11:24 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:
On 9/23/2017 3:44 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/23/2017 1:22 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
...
I seldom buy anything from Walmart, it seems that most of their items
are from some country I never heard of and the items have a less
than 30
day lifetime.

Â*Â*Â* they have a Made in USA push (sorta) going on
as we are finding more items made here.


My wife buys cloth for sewing up stuff for the grands and
great grands so she stays happy with cheap stuff they have and the
kids
don't keep the stuff long anyway. Heck, I have shirts and slacks that
are over 20 years old that still fit and aren't worn out as my daily
clothing is a pair of cheap shorts and a tee shirt that is about worn
out but feels good. I have good shoes that are older than some of my
grandchildren and no one knows the difference.

Â*Â*Â* yes, the shorts i have on now are hand-me-downs
from someone else and i've got AC/holes through the
pockets and they are about see through from being
worn so much.Â* i don't wear them outside often as
i prefer to keep the direct sun off my skin most
of the time.Â* just a few minutes here or there for
Vit D and that's it.Â* t-shirt is a few years old
but a work shirt so it has a life span of another
five to ten years.Â* my shoes, i just added a good
layer of rubber to the gardening crocs so they
should last another 10-15 years.Â* i don't spend
money on clothes that often.Â* the used goods
stores are places i will go first.Â* i do need a
replacement pair of jeans for my old ones which
have lasted about 10yrs.Â* i only wear them when
we go out and about.Â* my work pants for the gardens
are hand-me-downs that were going to get thrown
away (i could have had another 15 pair but
compromised at five pair).Â* i suspect they will
last me the rest of my lifetime, very sturdy work
pants from a friend who's company was bought out
by another so they changed the uniform.
unfortunately the shirts were not to my suiting.


George, up early giving the dawg her meds, everyone in this household
has a bottle of something the doctors said was good for us.
Tomorrow I
will be 78 years old and I don't expect any presents either. G I'm
aiming, eventually for 100 or more, yeah, that works, sure!

Â*Â*Â* Â* congrats and all that on the BD and being
around and still kicking.Â*


Â*Â*Â* songbird

I'm also very pleased by outliving most of my high school males in my
class. Several died in Vietnam and other fights, some just fell over
dead one day, and a few were deliberately killed by someone who didn't
like them. I liked most of my class mates but a few I cheered when I
read their names in the paper. Every small high school seems to have a
cluster of a-holes, mostly the jocks. Seems most of the women in that
small class are still alive, I don't go to reunion's very often so
don't see to many from 1957. Wife is on a tear again so I'm laying
low, she gets frantic about her garden and yard and then goes wild.
Tried to get her to let me hire someone for that stuff but she insists
on doing it herself, even with grands and greatgrands two blocks away.
Some of her ancestors were Germans and you know how hard headed they
are. G

George

I'll be 78 in a couple of months.Â* Went to an all boys Catholic high
school and for past 10 years there have been reunions for just the guys
but our 60th a couple of months ago included wives.Â* It is bitter sweet
to go their and last one, a classmate I recall jogging in the park about
a year ago was wheeled in by his wife now suffering from dementia and
Parkinson's.Â* Everybody now looks old which means I look old too.
The guys that look best are those still working or very active.

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the whole
season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.

Hi Frank! In case I miss the up and coming date, happy birthday ahead of
time!


Thanks.Â* I know seniors my age that tell me they no longer buy green
bananas.

Frank
I'm still laughing, I buy green bananas, is that okay at my age.

On 9/25/2017 11:37 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 11:24 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the whole
season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.

Hi Frank! In case I miss the up and coming date, happy birthday ahead of
time!



Thanks.Â* I know seniors my age that tell me they no longer buy green
bananas.



awe! Buy them anyway, I say.

--
Maggie

On 9/25/2017 1:18 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/25/2017 11:32 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/25/2017 10:47 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/25/2017 7:26 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 9:26 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:
On 9/23/2017 3:44 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/23/2017 1:22 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
...
I seldom buy anything from Walmart, it seems that most of their
items
are from some country I never heard of and the items have a
less than 30
day lifetime.

Â*Â* they have a Made in USA push (sorta) going on
as we are finding more items made here.


My wife buys cloth for sewing up stuff for the grands and
great grands so she stays happy with cheap stuff they have and
the kids
don't keep the stuff long anyway. Heck, I have shirts and
slacks that
are over 20 years old that still fit and aren't worn out as my
daily
clothing is a pair of cheap shorts and a tee shirt that is
about worn
out but feels good. I have good shoes that are older than some
of my
grandchildren and no one knows the difference.

Â*Â* yes, the shorts i have on now are hand-me-downs
from someone else and i've got AC/holes through the
pockets and they are about see through from being
worn so much.Â* i don't wear them outside often as
i prefer to keep the direct sun off my skin most
of the time.Â* just a few minutes here or there for
Vit D and that's it.Â* t-shirt is a few years old
but a work shirt so it has a life span of another
five to ten years.Â* my shoes, i just added a good
layer of rubber to the gardening crocs so they
should last another 10-15 years.Â* i don't spend
money on clothes that often.Â* the used goods
stores are places i will go first.Â* i do need a
replacement pair of jeans for my old ones which
have lasted about 10yrs.Â* i only wear them when
we go out and about.Â* my work pants for the gardens
are hand-me-downs that were going to get thrown
away (i could have had another 15 pair but
compromised at five pair).Â* i suspect they will
last me the rest of my lifetime, very sturdy work
pants from a friend who's company was bought out
by another so they changed the uniform.
unfortunately the shirts were not to my suiting.


George, up early giving the dawg her meds, everyone in this
household
has a bottle of something the doctors said was good for us.
Tomorrow I
will be 78 years old and I don't expect any presents either.
G I'm
aiming, eventually for 100 or more, yeah, that works, sure!

Â*Â* Â* congrats and all that on the BD and being
around and still kicking.Â*


Â*Â* songbird

I'm also very pleased by outliving most of my high school males
in my class. Several died in Vietnam and other fights, some just
fell over dead one day, and a few were deliberately killed by
someone who didn't like them. I liked most of my class mates but
a few I cheered when I read their names in the paper. Every small
high school seems to have a cluster of a-holes, mostly the jocks.
Seems most of the women in that small class are still alive, I
don't go to reunion's very often so don't see to many from 1957.
Wife is on a tear again so I'm laying low, she gets frantic about
her garden and yard and then goes wild. Tried to get her to let
me hire someone for that stuff but she insists on doing it
herself, even with grands and greatgrands two blocks away. Some
of her ancestors were Germans and you know how hard headed they
are. G

George

I'll be 78 in a couple of months.Â* Went to an all boys Catholic
high school and for past 10 years there have been reunions for
just the guys but our 60th a couple of months ago included wives.
It is bitter sweet to go their and last one, a classmate I recall
jogging in the park about a year ago was wheeled in by his wife
now suffering from dementia and Parkinson's.Â* Everybody now looks
old which means I look old too.
The guys that look best are those still working or very active.

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the
whole season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.
Pro football players are trying to get something to help out the
older players who are having lots of problems. I never watch
football, basketball, etc. with the exception of baseball, which I
dropped a few years ago when I found that they, too, were getting
lots and lots of money for playing a game. My Dad and I played in
the same league for folks that just liked to play baseball. Dad had
played baseball for money when he was in his teens. Lots of small
teams in Louisiana and Texas charge a a buck to watch the game and
the winner got the loot. Dad says in the twenties that was really a
good thing as he made less than a dollar an hour working in an oil
refinery and then go play baseball somewhere and get a bucket of
money. He told me that many times they had to run for their
transportation to not get beat up by the bystanders that cheered
the other side. Then I went to a high school that didn't have
baseball. Boo hoo. I played first base with the team from my first
ship as we sailors mostly liked baseball over anything else. That
was fun and I was also having fun going to the pistol and rifle
ranges and doing stunts with weapons. Got my first .22 rifle at 5
years of age and a .45 Auto and a 12 gauge shotgun at 7. Got a
whole rack of weapons here in my office and the only loaded one is
beside my bed, a .40 Glock, fine weapon and somewhat lighter than
my old Colt .45ACP. I can't hunt anymore unless I'm in a vehicle
due to problems from strokes years ago, runs in the family and I've
got 20 good years so far from the time of the strokes. Now my legs
are starting to give out due to damage to the nerves.

Gave up on following pro sports years ago.Â* Commercialization has
ruined them.Â* Back when I was a kid, we would go to church, Dad
would drive to Philly, we'd see a double header and be home in time
for dinner.Â* Today it takes that long to play one game.

I like to hunt and shoot but am giving up hunting as all I have
access to is public land and not being handicapped the easy stands
to access are for handicapped only.Â* I have use of all my facilities
but as one friend puts it, if it don't hurt, it don't work.

I have a Glock 23, .40 cal, and it is also hidden away, loaded if I
need it.Â* I hunted deer with a variety of weapons and only one that
I never got a deer with was a pistol. I really liked to bow hunt and
season is on now and lasts til the end of January but park I hunt
does not open until next month and I may try a day or two.Â* Also
applied for a managed hunt in another park which I get in on every 3
years or so.Â* They drive you to the stand, pick you up for lunch and
take you back at end and even find deer and take them out for you.
Texas has a lengthy deer season, and, if I remember, hunters can take
several deer a season. It is not unusual to see deer grazing along
highways and we have deer come up to our back fence here in Houston
area. Seems a lot of Texan's no longer hunt deer, one of my
grandson's still hunts, the other never did hunt. My granddaughter's
husband does hunt and fish so some of that is still in the family.
Grandson that hunts is planning a trip for he and I as I have had a
lifetime hunting and fishing license since they first came out years
ago. I will have to go to the range and do some shooting before I can
go as I haven't fired a firearm in at least fifteen years, lived in
cities to much I guess. Grandson does give us a couple of packages of
venison. We still like the wild meat. My Glock is a 23, bought it
used but it shoots okay. I'm training my left hand to use the pistol
as the right hand is partially paralyzed, strokes again from years
ago. I do miss my Colt .45 ACP, had it since childhood and then gave
it to my son. Many male Texan's got their first guns in early
childhood and were taught by their father's like my Dad. Nowadays the
schools are trying to keep guns from anyone for some ungodly reason.
I'm glad we old people and their older kids went to a different
school system.

When my father was a kid in the city, he would take his shotgun, get
on the bus, get off at the end of the line and hunt rabbits.Â* Would
not happen today.

Deer drive me nuts.Â* I can't hunt the ones in the yard as houses are
too close.Â* A couple of years ago, one fall I was eating lunch to look
out and see 4 bucks in my back yard just coming out of velvet.Â* I've
counted as many as 17 in the yard.Â* My Chinese chestnuts are starting
to drop and if the wife is not around I'll pop them in a non-vital
area with my pellet gun.Â* Year before last I shot 6 this way.Â* I've
thrown fire crackers at them, they leave and come back a little latter
and I need more than one fire cracker to chase them.

Seniors in Delaware can hunt and fish free but need to get an exempt
license every year.Â* Hunting license allows 5 deer with only a single
buck but you can buy a second buck permit and as many doe permits as
you want.Â* I heard of one guy that works on an estate that gets 50
deer a year.Â* Another cook at a golf course got 18 one year.

I could not get our sons interested in hunting.Â* Told a hunting buddy
he was lucky to have a son as addicted to hunting as he was.Â* He said
I was much luckier because all my sons went to college and have good
high paying jobs.Â* They do have interest in guns though.Â* Oldest sons
father in law has a nice holster business and buys guns tax deductible
for the business using them to mold holsters.
From 1963 until 1982, when my Dad died, I was a gunsmith for most of
those years until a job overseas made me blink my eyes and smile when I
saw the salary I made. Beat being a gunsmith but Dad kept it going when
I left until the day he died in his sleep. Came home, sold out all the
tools, etc. gave the money to Mom, went back overseas. Worked in two
foreign countries and several US states and I'm still not rich. G I'm
fairly happy with my long career in industrial safety, wife was an art
teacher and still paints. I sell the occasional safety manual for small
companies and still get enough buy groceries. I think we've done well,
come December 26th we will be married 57 years and have a lot of
memories from our travels and expeditions to here and there.

I worked in R&D, fibers and plastics research but ended up as a chemical
regulatory affairs consultant but forced into early retirement. I still
do consulting on the side and that includes writing SDS sheets.
Government regulations have improved that type business. New GHS has
had me updating MSDS to SDS. Next door neighbor does the same and has
taken a job in Arizona.

We're married 55 years now. Should have traveled more 10 years ago. I
got plenty from the company and sometimes took my wife. No real fun
when you are in a nice place but stuck in a meeting. Traveling is a
hassle today with airport security.

On 9/25/2017 1:19 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/25/2017 11:37 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/24/2017 11:24 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 9/24/2017 7:41 PM, Frank wrote:
On 9/23/2017 3:44 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 9/23/2017 1:22 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
...
I seldom buy anything from Walmart, it seems that most of their
items
are from some country I never heard of and the items have a less
than 30
day lifetime.

Â*Â*Â* they have a Made in USA push (sorta) going on
as we are finding more items made here.


My wife buys cloth for sewing up stuff for the grands and
great grands so she stays happy with cheap stuff they have and
the kids
don't keep the stuff long anyway. Heck, I have shirts and slacks
that
are over 20 years old that still fit and aren't worn out as my daily
clothing is a pair of cheap shorts and a tee shirt that is about
worn
out but feels good. I have good shoes that are older than some of my
grandchildren and no one knows the difference.

Â*Â*Â* yes, the shorts i have on now are hand-me-downs
from someone else and i've got AC/holes through the
pockets and they are about see through from being
worn so much.Â* i don't wear them outside often as
i prefer to keep the direct sun off my skin most
of the time.Â* just a few minutes here or there for
Vit D and that's it.Â* t-shirt is a few years old
but a work shirt so it has a life span of another
five to ten years.Â* my shoes, i just added a good
layer of rubber to the gardening crocs so they
should last another 10-15 years.Â* i don't spend
money on clothes that often.Â* the used goods
stores are places i will go first.Â* i do need a
replacement pair of jeans for my old ones which
have lasted about 10yrs.Â* i only wear them when
we go out and about.Â* my work pants for the gardens
are hand-me-downs that were going to get thrown
away (i could have had another 15 pair but
compromised at five pair).Â* i suspect they will
last me the rest of my lifetime, very sturdy work
pants from a friend who's company was bought out
by another so they changed the uniform.
unfortunately the shirts were not to my suiting.


George, up early giving the dawg her meds, everyone in this
household
has a bottle of something the doctors said was good for us.
Tomorrow I
will be 78 years old and I don't expect any presents either. G I'm
aiming, eventually for 100 or more, yeah, that works, sure!

Â*Â*Â* Â* congrats and all that on the BD and being
around and still kicking.Â*


Â*Â*Â* songbird

I'm also very pleased by outliving most of my high school males in my
class. Several died in Vietnam and other fights, some just fell over
dead one day, and a few were deliberately killed by someone who didn't
like them. I liked most of my class mates but a few I cheered when I
read their names in the paper. Every small high school seems to have a
cluster of a-holes, mostly the jocks. Seems most of the women in that
small class are still alive, I don't go to reunion's very often so
don't see to many from 1957. Wife is on a tear again so I'm laying
low, she gets frantic about her garden and yard and then goes wild.
Tried to get her to let me hire someone for that stuff but she insists
on doing it herself, even with grands and greatgrands two blocks away.
Some of her ancestors were Germans and you know how hard headed they
are. G

George

I'll be 78 in a couple of months.Â* Went to an all boys Catholic high
school and for past 10 years there have been reunions for just the guys
but our 60th a couple of months ago included wives.Â* It is bitter sweet
to go their and last one, a classmate I recall jogging in the park
about
a year ago was wheeled in by his wife now suffering from dementia and
Parkinson's.Â* Everybody now looks old which means I look old too.
The guys that look best are those still working or very active.

The class jock, who is really a nice guy, now suffers dementia.Â* I
recalled him telling me that when he played college football, the whole
season he was in a fog.Â* His dementia may be due to that.

Hi Frank! In case I miss the up and coming date, happy birthday ahead of
time!


Thanks.Â* I know seniors my age that tell me they no longer buy green
bananas.

Frank
I'm still laughing, I buy green bananas, is that okay at my age.

I'm getting a new Trex deck and Trex has 30 year warranty. Next year I
may get a new roof and warranties now are even longer. It would be nice
to be around when these warranties run out. I don't buy extended
warranties as the normal 1-3 year warranties could be lifetime warranties.

George Shirley wrote:
....
We don't have soil in our yard, it's five feet of clay covered with a
couple of inches of sand so we have raised beds for gardening.

clay and a little sand is underneath what has
been brought in here. keep piling on the organic
materials and it gets very very nice.


songbird