Now that it is over, I am determined to laugh about it. I just suffered through the worst year of my life, I spent the last seven days in the hosiptal. Last Friday I came home froom running errands in town. Oncce I got in the house I felt dizzy. Elaine noticed. Not sure who suggested it but it was determined I needed to go to the hospital. Previous to this day I had been given permission to “play with my old man meds.” I might have “played” a little hard. At the hospit

Sunday mornings I like to get up and sit down to tell a story on my tablet about what I did or what was done to me the previous week. This Sunday was no exception, except I have nothing to talk about this week. Before breakfast on two separate days, I’ve chased girl twin’s dog, Bratwurst through two neighbors pastures. The neighbor’s ———— (insert construction language) donkeys tried to stomp, kick and chase him out of their pasture. Gordon (Bback and white) accompanied Girl

Depending on you read this, one could say that Elaine and I celebrated our forty-ninth wedding anniversary this past week. Not our fiftieth, just our forty-ninth. People will say the forty-ninth is a big deal but I'm here to tell you there wasn't much to celebrate. We ended up going to dinner by ourselves, not on our anniversary date, but close. That said, after forty-nine years, I feel I should tell a story about how it all got started. I was working as a home builder/ca

I’m going to say something I don’t think I’ve ever said before. “I’m ready for summer to be over”. This has not been a great summer for me. I can’t believe it was almost TOO hot, I like hot weather, but this has been ridiculous. The skies have been hazy from the nation’s wildfires. I guess I am looking forward to winter because I despise fall/autumn. Elaine loves Fall. She likes the middle of the road temperatures, the gray, brown, tan vegetation. I like greens, blues,

Fifty years ago. I remember exactly where I was fifty years ago this past weekend. Elaine and I were camping. (Yes, the same Elaine I am with today.) It was to be the first time we went camping together and not everyone was happy about us going off camping together. You see, it was a different time, we weren’t married and Elaine’s mother was not happy that we would be alone in the woods. Elaine’s father loaned us camping equipment. Truth be known, we weren’t going to

It’s been a long time, I can still remember how horrible it was. I swore it would never happen to me(us). Elaine and I were a young married couple, not newly weds, but young and married to each other. We were upwardly mobile and found ourselves moving from an apartment we were renting to a house we bought. As you can see, life was pretty good. One small problem, and the lease was up on our apartment and our house was not ready to move into. We needed to find a CHEAP place

If you have been paying attention you might have noticed this country that we call home celebrated it 250 year old birthday. You may or may not think that is pretty cool because a lot of countries are older than 250 years. Personally, I think it is really quite neat considering the heroes this country has produced in this realatively short time. This country produced the first men to fly, The Wright Brothers were definitely heroes. Think about the heroes that save the wor

I didn’t tell a story last week. I had plenty of good reasons. It was Father’s Day. I was lazy and disinterested. Anyway, I’ll tell a story today. Gordon has taught himself where he can jump the fence, The deer herd and Gordon have great times playing tag. Goose doesn’t Jump the fence but if he can follow Gordon somehow he will join the tag game. Last week Goose tired of the tag game, went on his own to visit the neighbors who were sitting in their dining room with a door

I’m not sure this retirement thing is working out. Planning my time is getting harder evey day. This past week is a great example of what I’m talking about. With our recent rains the grass is growing. No big deal, I’m retired, I have plenty of time to mow. Except my cousin is in town for his yearly visit. Easy enough plan for a couple hours to visit and go to lunch. Tie his visit to a doctor’s appointment and a trip to purchase new shoes. Great plan! The doctor’s appo

We have watched our “neighborhood” grow in the two decades Elaine and I have lived here. Our “new” neighbors include retired police and firemen, retired military, but we realize not all the newbies are retired. For the last year I have been watching the guy in the red pickup. I guess the reason I have been watching him is because he drives by our house at least twice a day. He never waves, as a matter of fact he never looks at me. Just speeds by. He has toolboxes and us