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Before Google, we had the party line. When you decided to have phone service you could get a much better rate if you accepted a party line, meaning you would share the line with two or three other families. If they weren't using the phone you could use it. If you were the curious type you could listen to their conversation and if they were nosey they would snoop in on your conversation. You could learn very valuable information such as what they were having for dinner that night and interesting things like that. This was before blocks, you couldn't block anything. It was what it was and it wasn't forbidden! So everyone used their lily-white language just in case. A block was something the kids left on the floor and you stepped on later in the night on your way to the bathroom. Nothing was blocked. 

Nothing new from this side of town so I think I'll shut this down for the night. 

See ya later sweet potater!  We also had a different vocabulary, we made it up as we went along. 

TaTa 

Passwords

I wish someone would come up with a way to end passwords. Or if the same password would work with everything. Or they could use your fingerprint or picture. Maybe soon it will change. 

For entertainment I watch the fat people. I feel sorry for them because I know it could be me. Some folks don't care what others think but I'm not one of them. It's called pride. I care what others think of me. I sound like I am a skinny Minnie but I don't even come close to that. When I worked in the public I cared how I looked and worked on it. Now I am old and then some so I know my days are numbered and I may as well enjoy what time I have left. That includes eating. 

Now prices are going up temporarily. Isn't that a laugh! When do prices ever come down? 

They must pay a lot to get people to do the reality shows. How would you like a camera man following you around all day with a camera? Not my cup of tea. 

I always liked, Big World Little People. I don't know if it's still on or not. I never remember to look for it.

Hey, that's something I could do now. 

Have a nice day.

            

I can't even do this anymore.

Challenge

I no longer love a challenge. I can't remember anything long enough for it to be a challenge. I have to look at the phone to see what day it is and not just once a day. Why do I care what day it is? The sun came up and the sun will go down. 

Chris and I were out and about the other day. Wear the mask. I noticed some do and some don't and some won't and some are without because they forgot it. I forget to put it on. I got a pedicure because I cannot see well enough to trim toenails. Everyone had on a mask in that place.

Mel and Nancy came over today and we chatted awhile. We didn't have on our masks.  Mel always seems to be in a happy mood. It's his personality, he has always been a cheerful type of person. Maybe those that live and work with him have a different slant on it. 

Natalia and Daddy

I have later pictures of them but this will have to do. She is four years old now.

I have lots of Grands and Great Grands, This is just a sample.

Logic

You never see a silver dollar anymore. Well, maybe you do but I don't. That may be because I never go shopping.  I excel in logic. For instance, if you don't want to get Covid get the vaccine. Or it might cause you to grow two heads. Well, maybe you need another one.  

I no longer have any friends, they all went to the great beyond. How do we know it's so great? No one ever returned so it must be great. 

I'm at an age when you buy groceries, buy the smaller size, you may not be here next week. When the Dr wants to see you in a year. Wow! Dr thinks I'm in great health.

I am required to file an annual report to the secretary of State regarding this so-called Condo I am buying. It was due in June and I failed to file it. Now it is so far past due I have to pay $35 late fees. Or write them a letter explaining why I am so late with the payment. 

It's because I'm 93 and I forgot. 

It's past my bedtime, I forgot to go to bed. 

                                              

                                        The End

            

Happy Pumpkin Day

Sleep or not to Sleep

I can't watch the TV, it puts me to sleep. I don't want to go to sleep this early so I force myself to stay awake. Wow! I stayed awake until ten PM. So off to bed I go. I adjust my pillow just right and make sure I can reach the extra blanket just in case. Snug as a bug in a rug, and now I lay myself down to sleep I pray the doors are locked and the sheep don't bleat. I don't like the bleating sheep disturbing my sleep.

The brain flies open and all the things I don't want to think about come right in. I open my eye and peek at the clock every few seconds. I need to flip the pillow over because I like a cold pillow. Can you buy cold pillows? I'll have to google that. 

I need to stop looking at that clock so I turn over so I can't see it. My imaginary friend keeps telling me I need to go potty again, It's time to flip the pillow over again. It's time to amputate the imaginary friend. 

 It is ten o'clock so goodnight to all!

Less than Nothing

In case there are folks out there that have not noticed yet the world is turning into a loony bin. I dialed a big business out of the area and found the phone number on their website. It was a long 1-800-800- etc number. A voice answered the phone with a simple hello and I thought that was odd but I proceeded to tell him what I had called about when the voice said, "Mom, this is your son, Mel, I'm at the car wash".

Not sure why I didn't recognize his voice. 

The evening news opens with the latest shooting. A girl was shot Saturday in the chest and the bullet found an area that caused no problem she has been released from the hospital. Now girls are involved in gang fights. 

  

What is all this smoke doing to our lungs? 

I turned the A/C on because I thought the cleaning lady was coming. She called and will come in the morning. I forgot about it until I started shivering so time to turn it off. 

Well goodbye...

Killing Time

Karen Lemaster Engel
She wasn't an Engel yet.

Another day, nothing new. Bad news is all we hear these days.

I am glad I was born when I was, but I sure would hate to live it over. There are so many crazy things going on now, wear a mask in public or risk getting the deadly flu. 

I just started this post to pass some time away. Well, I see it is almost my time to call it a day. 

Goodnight all.

Granddaughters

Bob bobbed the bushes

Belly Acher

Blue skies and no masks would be wonderful. 

 Gloom, doom, and covid belong in the same sentence.  

Will things return to normal? Only time will tell.

Now it's normal to find things out of stock. 

Starbucks Frappuccino coffee drinks are difficult to find in this town, Yakima, WA. so I decided I would order a case of them through Amazon. Well, guess what, they don't cover this area. What's wrong with this area? When shopping you find many shelves bare such as cat food. I'm unable to go shopping but my shopper helper tells me about it. 

I can give up the Coffee habit. I gave up smoking once upon a time so I can give up this habit and lose some weight and save money (whatever that is).

Little disappointments are daily events such as no Newspaper this morning. We will get the paper later today the message said. They are having a production problem, they had a production problem a week or so ago. I expect Newspapers will soon be a thing in our past. With the internet, we can find all the news we need.

A hundred years ago