First thing first. I need to thank everyone for the concern and well wishes. If by some chance you didn’t have any concern or well wishes, I’m OK with that. Maybe next time. Having said all that I am feeling pretty good. I can walk at least twice as much/far as I could before the doctors removed Two liters (+) of non-cancerous fluid off my right lung. I have decided to take today off from writing a story so I can enjoy the warm weather today and play outside, unless Elaine make me watch...

Hello, Mumblers. I’m a little late with today’s story. Truth is I was not where I could write a story. Reluctantly, I’m going to tell the story now. Let me first say that I turned seventy last month. Things didn’t go bad becauseI turned seventy, but I noticed things were bad. At a recent doctor visit, it was determined by my doctor(s) that breathing is not what I was good at. This breathing revelation caused me to spend seven days in the local hospital. I could have written the story...

As I have mentioned before, Elaine loves fall/autumn. For the first forty-plus years of our marriage, Elaine has made the fall colors of the trees her high point of her year. She loves the yellows, tans, browns and beiges of the leaves. A few short years ago, Elaine discovered another reason to love fall. Football! Elaine spent the first decades of her life being indifferent to fall sports, especially football. She has a degree from a university (actually two degrees) with a college...