Learn Something New Every day

What is the difference between outlaw and illegal? I didn't think you'd know so I'll tell you. Outlaw is against the law and illegal is a sick bird. 
This day has lasted forever and it isn't even Sunday. One Christmas eve a few years ago I became a grandma of Identical twin girls. Molly and Emily.

Mel and his daughters

Deena and her twin boys

Dylan and Tylor

Dylan and Tylor

Cora and her daughter, Chloe

I can't locate their baby pictures at the moment but here they are. 

Molly and Emily

Happy Birthday!!!

This all for now. Have a very Merry Christmas.

All I Want For Christmas

All I want for Christmas is a new wrinkle-free face without the turkey neck. I'm not really all that concerned with it. It comes with the territory, if you live this long you're going to have some proof and wrinkles are the proof. 
When you get old you discover all the things they make that are child-proof are also Senior proof. I hate opening new boxes of cereal or anything. They have them sealed up so tight it takes a jack-hammer to get the top off, and a bottle cap is next to impossible. If it isn't too large I can open it with the pliers. Boxes take the whole toolbox and a stick of dynamite. I guess they got tired of things getting opened in the store. Well, they succeeded that sure isn't going to happen anymore. 

Ta Ta and Merry Christmas

My hair needs a new do.

I just love these old pictures. My sister-in-law  Florence and Alice Marie is the leg hugger. Me and my firstborn, Kenny.

The year was 1950. I had some saddles too.(Shoes)

This is My Life

Life goes on in the slow lane too. Some people are so busy they don't have enough time in the day to get it all done, and now I have all the time in the world I never get everything done. It'll wait.

Our weather is ugly. The sun must be on vacation. I sure haven't seen much of it lately. 
Christmas season again. It's a moneymaker for businesses and a money spender for the average person. Crime and murder don't slow down any for Christmas. So many people get murdered every day no matter what time of the year it is. 
My ex-daughter-in-law came by today to give me something. When there is a divorce in a family it affects everyone in the family, we have made friends with the ex and that doesn't disappear because the marriage did. We have been friends for decades.
I think they are still friends as far as I know. 

I don't have much blog material anymore, but I still get a lot of views on my blog. One day recently I had 80 views in one day. 

For whatever reason, I have always had an interest in writing and words, and have a dictionary at my fingertips. My favorite pastime is crossword puzzles. I even saved this old article I found in a magazine once upon a time. A long time ago.

The Day I Got Off the Bus

I was transplanted to this God-forsaken village seventy-some years ago.  It was not really God-forsaken, but to me it was. I didn't know a single soul except for my husband and new inlaws, Hub had a job and was gone eight hours a day. So what was there to do. I sit at the table and played solitaire until I wore the cards out.  I had learned how to crochet so I did a lot of that. In those days I don't remember yarn being in existence so I made a ton of those little frilly doilies. One day I decided to find the city library. I don't remember how I found the address and I  didn't know if it was North 3rd Ave or South 3rd Ave so of course I went to the wrong one and found the Armory building. I wandered around for awhile and finally went home. 

I sat and looked out the window a lot. Finally, I had a new neighbor and her name was Lorraine. We became best friends right away because she was in the same boat I was in except she came with her new husband from Arizona. We were best friends for the rest of her life.  It was the rest of her life because she passed away several years ago. Another new neighbor moved into our apartment building and her name was Mary. She remained a friend until her death many years ago. Well, life goes on or at least mine does and now every friend I ever knew kicked the bucket. Not really, I know Billy and Marian are still around, but I think everyone else has turned themselves in. I'd turn myself in but can't find the office. You know how I am about finding places. If this doesn't make sense it's because I don't have any left since I grew so old. I think Cecilia may still be around but I have forgotten her last name and I think Sheila may be around as well.

Well, the sun finally peeked around a cloud. We've had the dreariest weather lately. It's Friday the 13th.

Stay warm and keep your smile smiling. 

Live Life to the Fullest, eat.

Another day, another overcast foggy, dark, dreary day. It's only December so just deal with it. I'm eating candy kisses and drinking diet Pepsi. It helps a little. Now when I get on the scales next week and hear them howl I will apologize. It always calms things down even if you don't mean it. I should have been a marriage counselor. 
Oh, I just noticed it's lunchtime and I'm not the slightest bit hungry. 
I will be searching YouTube for something else to crochet. I need to search for some more yarn. I have lots of yarn but not enough in one color to do anything with. 
Yea, that's what I will do. Amazon, here I come.
Ya'all have a nice day and don't eat too much. 

Snow Day

December 1st 2019

Winter has arrived and so has the snow.

Are cats just dumb or is it stubborn? I opened the door and called her over to look out and she totally ignored me and just sat there staring into space. 

I already took a Winter nap and had to look at the computer to see if it is Monday yet. No, it's still Sunday. In my past, I would be in church by now. No, I don't need a ride to church. I have turned into a lazy hazy elderly one. I was going to call myself an old lady but decided to quit insulting myself. I guess it isn't an insult to be old. It depends on your genes I think. My Grandpa Lockwood lived to be 89 back when people usually died in their 70's or so. I remember when back on the farm, he always took a long afternoon walk and when he returned he would lie down under the apple tree and take a long nap. I don't know if he realized exercise was good for him or it was just the way he liked to live. My Grandpa Potter lived to be 59. He died from a stroke.

Winter Has Arrived

I borrowed someone's picture.

Our weatherman said it was snowing, but not on my street.

And that is fine with me. We are going to have a wind storm with gusts of 50 mph. I think it's due tomorrow.

I don't have much to do these days. Watch TV and crochet and check to see if it's snowing yet. And of course, those leg exercises that I seem to forget until I tuck myself in bed at night. 

I finally made an appointment to see my doctor. Maybe he'll have a magic pill that will give me some energy. 

See ya later!

 

 

Has Been (An old rerun)

When I was a young thing, I decided to supplement our income by taking a job. I found one by looking in the newspaper ads. It was part of a nightclub. One side was very plushy with carpet on the floor and tables with white tablecloths. A bandstand in one corner and it had a small dance floor. Next to it was a coffee shop. I worked in the coffee shop as a waitress. The coffee shop was called ‘The Turf’. It was a very popular place to have lunch or nice meal. There was four horseshoe shaped coffee stands with stools. Those were on one side and the other side had booths.

It was a very popular place, and was open 24 hours a day. I was on the night shift. I was fidgety as a cat on a hot tin roof the first few shifts because I had no training in this field.
It was not a hard job to learn at that time. If you knew how to pour water into a glass and write, you qualified. They furnished uniforms. They were khaki colored and trimmed in dark brown.
We got the drunks from the nightclub when it closed as well as the people from the street.

One night I had one of those half-drunk customers and he ordered a burned grilled cheese sandwich. He made it very clear that it was to be burned black. I turned the order in and when the cook read it, he called me into the kitchen and informed me that we do not serve burned food. I argued with him, and asked him what difference does it make, if he wants it burned just burn it. “Do you not know how to burn a sandwich?” I finally won the argument and he said he would do it. When the order was ready he sent for me. I went back into the kitchen and he had the order ready with a white cloth napkin covering it. I asked, “Why the napkin?” He said, “I don’t want any of our other customers seeing it, just set it in front of him and remove the napkin”. The customer was delighted. Now the customer is happy and I’m happy and the cook is still grumbling about it.
Another customer once asked for an Iced coffee. I went to the head honcho and asked, “How do you make an iced coffee?” She said, “I don’t know, I guess you just put ice in it.” I hope you understand this was before anybody had ever heard of Starbucks. So I poured the man a mug of coffee and added some crushed ice. When I set it in front of him he began to laugh and he kept laughing until I wanted to melt into the floor. I was so embarrassed. He said, “It’s usually served in a tall glass”. “All our tall glasses are dirty”. I said. But he laughed even harder. I was glad when he left. I was such a greenhorn.
Two couples sat in one of my sections and when I gave them their menu’s one of the men begin to speak to me in a foreign language. His friends just sat there and said nothing. When he finished I said, “Well, if you do you’ll have to clean it up”. Everybody in the booth began to laugh so hard, I would still like to know what he actually said. Because what I said wasn’t that funny.

One night I had two ‘feeling no pain’ clientele sit in one of my booths. The lady ordered a filet mignon steak, and excused herself to make a potty run. I asked the man if he was ready to order and he said. “Don’t turn that order in, she thinks I’m paying for it and I just met her 10 minutes ago.” I said, “Oh, she must be a gold digger.” He said, “Yeah, and she ain’t got nothing to dig with”. He made a hasty departure and when the lady returned she looked around and didn’t see him so she left. I was glad I had not turned in her order.


Another time a customer asked if we had Scallops. I said, “Do you mean scallop potatoes?” I was raised in Oklahoma and it’s a little distance from the ocean so I honestly had never heard of the seafood called Scallops. I’m sure everybody in the state of Oklahoma knows what scallops are, but I was a little naïve. Maybe stupid would be a better word.
I only worked there for a couple months. I had a three-year-old at home and there was no way that I could get enough sleep. My husband worked the day shift. I never worked in that field again. Even though I was now experienced and knew what a scallop and an iced coffee was.

Baby Shower

I went to a fabulous baby shower today for my great-great-granddaughter. Lots of people and food galore. It was the most impressive one I have ever attended. It was for men and women and a very friendly dog. Dogs are attracted to me. I'm not entirely sure if that is a compliment or not, but she had her head under my hand a lot.
I sat there watching all the people and thinking if it wasn't for me none of these people would be gathered here for this big event. So I felt a moment of importance. 
 They said they were giving the baby girl a middle name of Retha. (My first Name) I broke out in a flood of tears, and then Tylor teared up. So we hugged each other and cried about it. I would tell you the girls first name but I don't know how to spell it.
The weather is getting cooler. It's 50 degrees now, but it's November so what can you expect! I would post a picture but I forgot to take my phone. 

I need to add a comment:
 I corrected a mistake I had made regarding my first name Retha. 
No, Deena isn't crazy. She is the one that pointed it out so I corrected it. 

The Blinds Arrived

This is what I've been waiting for. Kenny had more trouble getting the Valance back up there than he did with the blind. He didn't have any trouble at all with the blind. I like it and it serves the purpose. 

Life in the old-age Lane

Gloomy day and gloomy news. The approximate date for the blinds delivery was Thursday the 14th. Now the date for the delivery is Friday the 15th. Oh well, such is life in this old age. I wouldn't be so antsy about the darn things except I sit here at night feeling like a target for those passing by.

The doctor said my vision will not get worse with the injections, I sure hope he is right. It's so bad now I can look at something and it just isn't there and 5 minutes later look in the same spot and there it is. Now is my vision worse or are there evil little demons running around hiding things?
I spent several hours yesterday looking for a flashlight. I didn't need it because I have those little ones everywhere. It just bugged me because I knew it was here the day before. Let sleeping dogs lie they say. Well, this isn't a sleeping dog, it's a damned yellow flashlight so where is it? So, let's just sit down and think about this. Maybe it's in the garage, I didn't look there. 
Okay, the next time I get up I'll look there. Twenty minutes later I had to make a potty call, it's the first thing on my to-do list these days. After that, I remembered I wanted to look in the garage for something, now what was it? Oh yes, where is that flashlight so I looked there and what before my wandering eyes should appear. the damned flashlight. It had been left on because I was searching around in one of those plastic tubs for a certain yarn and found the exact yarn I was looking for. I was so excited about finding the yarn I forgot the flashlight. 
Maybe I'm getting Al's hammer (Alzheimer) disease.
Don't wish to live to a ripe old age, it'll only get worse.  

Better than Nothing

Nothing exciting to write about unless you call this exciting.  Yesterday I had a shot in my eye. It happens every two months. It's called Macular Degenerative disease.  I had a bad result. My vision was so foggy I couldn't see anything but shadows and the pain was next to unbearable.  There was an abrasion and they gave me a prescription for an ointment to help ease the pain. He said it will be fine tomorrow because it will heal very rapidly. He was right about it healing so quickly.  It's fine today. The ointment helped ease the pain but made everything even foggier. 

I'm still waiting for the new window blinds. They should be here Thursday. 

My six granddaughters

Laura, Molly, Cora, Emily, Katie, Deena

Now I have 10 great grands and a great great grand on the way.
Tyler and Wendy have a little girl in the oven. Five generations if I keep hanging on.

Turtle Steps

My new vertical blinds have been shipped and the estimated date of arrival is November 14th. Even if they are riding on the back of a turtle it shouldn't take a week to travel from California to Washington state. Oh well, I'm not going anywhere so I have nothing to do but wait for things. 

I'll just have to cool my heels.

The Way it Goes

Clean air authority placed a do not burn anything and if you go outside and have any kind of lung disease wear a mask. It reminds me of when Mt. St Helens blew it's top many years ago. Much of the ash blew into our hometown. It was not welcome. If you went outside it was advised that you wear a mask. One of our banks posted a sign on their door, Remove mask before entering.

My vertical blinds are 30 years old and have worn out. When I close them, half turn one way and the other half turn the other way or nothing turns at all. And when it gets dark there are a few that refuse to close and that makes me nervous. Today on my tiptoes I managed to turn each slat the same direction and they are in the closed position and they will stay that way until the new ones arrive. They have been ordered. 
Sorry, this is such a dull post, but that's my life. 

I miss this vehicle more than anything.

Don't ever give up your wheels.

The Born Loser

I am officially the born loser. I wanted a flu shot and we were at the door of Safeway when we thought of it. We had to wait about 15 minutes and there was an old codger about my age sitting across from us and he was in a foul mood. He was gripping about everything he could think of. He didn't believe anything anyone told him and everyone had been brainwashed and if they said it would be a half an hour they meant it would be a half of a day. They were probably out in the yard drinking beer or maybe it's payday and they are out shopping. I finally realized he wasn't serious, he was just entertaining us. Anyway, they finally called my name and since I had never had a flu shot there before, my name wasn't in their records so they would need my card. All I had was my ATM card and ID card. I had decided I didn't need to carry a purse anymore because with the cane the purse is just in the way. From this day forward the purse goes too, hang the cane. I couldn't get the flu shot because the card was in my missing purse. 
We had just come from Walmart because I wanted to pick up some more yarn that matched some I had bought and need a couple more skeins of it, but they only had one skein left. 
Well, I guess I may as well go home and twiddle my thumbs some more. And another thing the waiting room talked about the lack of the Shingle vaccine. It seems to be a rare item as everyone is always out of it. I need one of those also. 
I changed my picture in the right column. Chris said I looked too sober in the other one so I added this on with the fake smile.

Karen's Sunflower

Hit the Hay

Well, it's time to hit the hay. 11PM and all is quiet on the home front. It doesn't matter how sleepy I am when my head hits my pillow my brain goes into high gear. Oh, I forgot to take something out of the freezer. Oh, I was going to make sure the back screen was completely closed because the wind is expected to get high and mighty. Oh, I forgot to take that stupid Miralax. I forgot to take my hearing aids out. I have to remember to buy some distilled water for the CPAP. I wonder if I remembered to pay the water bill. $145.00 how could I forget to pay that. I didn't use that much water, I must be paying for the neighbors water too.
Well, tomorrow will come early so I better try to get some sleep.

More Ramblings

When I was a kid the only movie you saw was in a theater. Television wasn't here at that time. I would go to a movie on Saturday afternoon if I could beg a dime from my Dad. Before the movie began there would be a News announcement. They would announce things that were going on in other countries and I was fascinated with it. The news reel was as much fun as the movie. 
The movies I saw were usually a cowboy movie as we called them at the time. Shoot em ups!
Guns blazing and men staggering out of the saloon, not because he was drunk but because he had just been shot. Talk about gun smoke, we have a killing every few days around here. There was even some talk about making backpacks for the school kids bulletproof. I think it was shot down (pun intended) as being a little ridiculous.
Chris and I went for a drive yesterday to see all the beautiful fall colors. Bright green trees with gold and orange trees scattered everywhere. 
She took me to Wallyworld so I could buy some yarn. If I didn't know how to crochet or work a crossword puzzle I'd go all the way nuts. I'm only halfway there now. Quite frankly I don't give a hoot about movies. Who said 'Quite frankly I don't give a damn'?  I know someone said it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclBvVXsA5s

Little bit of Nothing

I have a new headgear for my CPAP. I think it'll be more comfortable. They gave me a new hose and new everything. It's been a long time since I've had new supplies. I should have asked for them sooner.  I had an appointment with them because they said I needed a fitting. I guess they thought I was just now being set up with one. I think we have everything cleared up now and they said they would have someone deliver them to me tomorrow. I barely got home and they were knocking on the door with the supplies. I appreciate the rapid service. 

It was so nice to get out of the house for a while. The tree's and foliage is so pretty this time of the year. We dropped into KFC and picked up a chicken dinner to have later. It was scrumptious too. 
That's about as exciting as it gets around here. 

Time Changes

Time changes everything. I've been here 91 years and the world has changed so much. Not all in a good way either but I'm not telling anyone anything you don't already know. Kids walked a mile or so to school and were perfectly safe. It's a little risky to let your kid walk around the block these days. 
The fun has been taken out of Halloween trick or treating for the

An excuse to use my favorite picture again.

kids.  I think most neighborhoods are safe but a parent needs to follow them to be sure. 
Recently a little boy and his dog were lost in a cornfield. Thank God for Drones. A man had one that could detect heat. It found the little boy. Bad things still happen but so do good things.

I wanted to cook something that called for grated cheese. Chicken enchilada casserole to be exact. I had all the ingredients I thought. So I set everything out and began to put it together. I had it almost ready but putting some grated cheese on the top and I have grated cheese but I didn't know it had mold in it. It's not that old. I was able to rescue enough cheese that wasn't green yet. Don't they make penicillin from mold?  So if I happen to get on the outside of some green cheese it won't kill me.
I also found a jar of soft cheese for Nacho's so I used some of that. 
Are we going to turn our clocks back next month or not? I'm not sure so I googled it. I still don't know but I am guessing we do. 
Well, that's my life exciting as it gets. 

A Bad Day

For the love of Pete!!! I was having a bad day. I thought these blogs were for posting your thought and things you want to talk about. 
I wanted to go to Norco and get fitted for a different CPAP that the doctor thought might be more comfortable and was feeling down because I can no longer drive and do what I want when I want. It's not the end of the world, sorry I made it feel that way. I also need a script from the pharmacy. It seems to me that pharmacies could at least mail your meds to you. They say it's a great life if you don't weaken. So don't weaken!
It's dreary here today with clouds and rain. 
October seems to be whizzing by. It's half over already. 

Have a great day !!!

Don't sweat and don't fret

Boredom

This is the longest day of my life and it's only 8:30 PM. I even thought about suicide but that might hurt and I am a wimp when it comes to pain. I didn't think seriously about it for one second. I believe in God and the hereafter and the beforehand and all that and I know God doesn't want us butting into his business.  When we die it's his decision. I am old and ready to move on but haven't received an eviction notice yet. There is no escalator to heaven, maybe a drone will pick us up and deliver us to our destination.
I untangled a skein of yarn and it took most of the day. I mumbled a few bad words in the process. I sent a couple text messages which I received no response to. No one even reads my text messages.
I haven't done much of anything all day. I need to get a Flu shot but if I never leave the house how would I pick up the Flu. I haven't had a head cold in 10 years or more. No kidding, I think I found the cure for the common cold, it's very simple just hibernate the rest of your life. 

Greed and Such

I just made a homemade vanilla flavored coffee drink. Starbucks has nothing to fear about my competition. It isn't too bad but I'd rather have the real McCoy. I wonder how that expression came about. What did McCoy know that no one else knew? Sometime when I have a lot of time on my hands I'll research it and let you know. 
If it wasn't for my neighbor I wouldn't have any excitement at all. She woke me from a nap to let me know the mail had not come yet. Then she interrupted my lunch to deliver it to me which is fine, but I really don't give a rat's buttox if I get mail or not. It usually goes straight in the trash can. At least it makes a job for the Garbage collectors. I appreciate her bringing the mail to me. She is a good neighbor. So don't think I am just a grouchy old woman!
My pharmacy called and give me some delightful news, my prescription is ready for pick up so I asked the cost because I will have someone pick it up. I almost went into cardiac arrest, it is a mere $183.60. I'd have to rob a bank to pay for it and I'm just not up to it at this time. It has something to do with an itching problem. I itch from the top of my head to my toes and it could be an allergy, dry skin, or who knows what, but the medicine would probably take care of it. They are going to contact the doctor. Hopefully, they have a generic that will be reasonable. She prescribed two meds and the other one is $35.00. May the people responsible for the price of itching medicine get the seven-year itch!

I miss the wonderful life I had during that time.

Aha Deenie Weenie looked it up for me.
"The real McCoy" was the inventor Elijah McCoy, born in Canada in 1844. He had many different inventions including an ironing board and a lawn sprinkler. Other companies copied his devices, but these never worked as well as Elijah's so people would say, "I want a, and make sure it's a real McCoy."

It's the Berries

When I was a kid the only ice cream we ever had was homemade and we all loved vanilla so that was what we made. I say we but I had very little to do with the making of the ice cream. You couldn't buy crushed ice in that day so when we did our weekly shopping Daddy would go by the ice house and buy a block of ice. The block of ice was put in a burlap bag and crushed with the side of the axe. Mom would make the ice cream with whole milk and maybe some added cream to make it even better, to heck with the arteries, and raw eggs, who knew you weren't suppose to eat raw eggs, and sugar, we were already on the slim side so forget the calories and vanilla flavoring. 
I think that is all the ingredients we used in ice cream.  Read a label on a box of ice cream today, it will have ingredients you never heard of. Oh, yes it took an old fashioned ice cream maker to freeze it. Those were the days! But I don't want to go back to those days. You froze your butt off when you got up in the mornings in the Winter until someone made a fire in the pot-bellied stove in the living room. 
When it rained in Oklahoma, it poured and thundered and streaks of lightning brightened the sky. I'm sure it still does those things in Oklahoma, but I live in the wild west so I don't see it very often around here. 

I said all that to say this, I detest eggnog flavored ice cream. Just make it vanilla or maybe on rare occasions, some chocolate will suffice. No strawberry, raspberry or gooseberry. Why did they name it gooseberry? If anyone knows please let me know the answer.   

Roll Turkey

Headlines say Trump to roll Turkey. I have a vision of Trump herding a Turkey down the street. How long does it take to impeach a president?
My neighbor can't talk very plain and I can't hear very well, without the aids, and so when she brought my mail to me and said something, I couldn't understand at first what she was saying. I finally got it. She went bowling recently and bowled an 86. I am bowling illiterate so I don't know if that is good or not. I'm sure it's better than I could do.

I hate this weird weather. Isn't there ever a time when the temperature is perfect? Not around here, I either have to turn the heat on or the air. 
I think Amber Guyger went into the neighbor's apartment instead of her apartment and shot her neighbor should do some serious time in prison. Why didn't she ask him what he was doing in her apartment instead of killing him? She had a gun in her hand so she was in charge. How could she not know which apartment was hers? There must be more to the story. I'd hate to be in her shoes.

Rainy Day

How does one save for a rainy day or any day? Prices rise and the income stands still. The only thing I've been able to save is a plastic bag full of plastic bags. I seem to save shoes because I never throw away a shoe. I might wear those again someday! Someday hasn't come yet. 
Today I paid big money to have my underground irrigation pipes cleared out so they won't freeze and break in the Winter. I called this morning and they said they could do it today. So when I expect someone to come I can't seem to forget about it and get on with my day. No, I am constantly looking out to see if they are here yet. I even ate lunch in the living room so I could look out the window for the pipe blower. He didn't come until nearly five o'clock. Well, thank goodness he came today so I won't have to start looking for him tomorrow. I think it's an old age thing, I don't remember caring about such things when I was in my prime. In my prime? When was that?

I just love this picture and now that it's October I will show it again, that little great grandaughter is now 10 years old.

Wild Goose Chase

Chris and I went out on a wild goose chase today searching for Robin She lives in a mobile home court. We've been there before but forgot the house number. I had an appointment with her for a hair cut. Neither of us could recall where it was exactly so we drove around and around the court over the speed bumps until I started calling them the Bladder bumps. She didn't answer her text messages or phone calls. The mobile homes all looked similar so we finally gave up and found the nearest Walmart, a few dollars lighter we decided to forget it and start over another day. 
Ellensburg may get some snow in September! That must be a first.
Nothing new from my view.

I can wait!

My shed.

Have a Blast

When you wake up you never know what you are facing. Was there another terrible storm or a shooting? Or some new Punkism movement. Just dodge the bullets and relax! The worst is yet to come. If you're old you're probably in pain of some kind or so old and tired you can barely move.
If you wonder what someone is doing just go to their Facebook page. 
A waiting room is full of people with phones in their hands.  Nowadays we don't visit people we hang with them. Don't you have friends you hang with?

I am all of the above and below.

                                      

Boredom Rules

Who wants to live to be 100? Not I said the little red hen. See, I'm in my second childhood! Is there a 3rd childhood? I'll probably make that one too. 

Winter is approaching and those are gloomy days. Look on the brighter side, when the snow starts flying it'll be brighter. 

One night recently we had a thunder storm. It woke me up in the middle of the night and I couldn't understand for a while what it was. I thought something was happening on my street. I finally caught on. They don't happen very often around here, that's my excuse.

I am so thankful we don't (knock on wood) have those awful storms around here. I know there could be a first. 

Well, you know I have no place to go and nothing to do so I think I will go to bed. I can take up where I left off tomorrow. 

Happy September to you.

Gripe and Groan

The climate is changing. Living on another planet may be the only solution. I'm not losing any sleep over it yet. 
 We're going to have an undercover Water Park here, it is expected to open in November. It doesn't sound like much fun in the Wintertime. 
The days are endless, and the nights are more than endless. If I could still drive everything would be fine. I feel trapped. I  can crochet and knit but you can only use so much of that stuff. I like to work crossword puzzles now and then but not constantly. I enjoyed the Jigsaw Puzzles that Facebook had, but those are messed up and impossible for me to get one to open. I don't understand why they had to get so complicated. I used to work Freecell until I burned out on it. I don't care for the games I've looked into and reading is for the birds. 
That's my tale of woe!

What's yours?

More of the Same

I think I'm happiest when I don't have to go anywhere. The injections are behind me, but not in my behind, one in the eye and one in the arm. The one in the arm hurt much more than the eye did. I think it was the injector more so than the injection. They have never been painful in the past. I heard another lady complaining about the pain, so you know I'm not just a wimp. 
The medical appointments are over for a few weeks. 
Our weather is a wee bit cooler and it's so nice. I have A/C as most folks have in this town so when I go out in the heat it's horrible.
Well, we're in September and that's how it works. 
The County Fair will soon be on. You have to have walking legs to go to that place and an empty tummy because they have lots of yummy junk food. 

 He respects our flag. We have so many worthless human beings on our planet now it's unreal.

Happy trails to you..............

My sibs, four of us are still here.