I thought so

You know you’re getting older when …

 You know all the answers but nobody asks you any questions.
 You need a fire permit to light all your birthday candles and after you blow them out, you need oxygen.
 You order GERITOL on the rocks.
 You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.
 You stop to think and sometimes forget to start again.
 You don’t need an alarm clock to get up with the chickens.
 Your pacemaker opens the garage door when a cute little young member of the opposite sex walks by.
 The only whistles you get are from a tea kettle and the catcalls are from your cat.
 You finally get it all together but can’t remember where you put it.
 Everything hurts and that which doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.
 Your little black book contains names that end in M.D.
 You look forward to a dull evening. Heaven is sacked out on the couch with the television turned to a favorite show and a new season.
 You need glasses to find your glasses.
 You wonder why more people don’t use this size print.
 When you get down on the floor to do something and ask yourself, “what else can I do while I’m down here?”
 When you introduce your children as so and so’s grandparent.

And I add some of my own …
 Your earlobes are beginning to touch your shoulders.
 You clip nosehairs and ear fringes.
 You do a decent cha-cha with a cane and a walker.
 Getting up in the morning to present yourself to the world takes a maneuver drill that rivals a pack trip to the Alps.
 You look great in the mirror because you can’t see the wrinkles.
 Clipping toenails requires a soak in the tub, a mirror, reading glasses and a yoga position. This chore is best done in the morning before the joints and muscles realize what you are doing.
 Your favorite dream is a personal, young and limber life companion. Must know gentle massage and to realize when you need to be left alone.
 Derring-do is a day in front of the slot machines at a gambling resort.
 Half your appliances and personal transportation wheezes as badly as you do.
 You realize that those young whipper-snappers are rude, ignorant, and really don’t matter as much as you thought they did. Exceptions: favorite grandchildren.
 You aren’t as terrified of things that used to spook you when you were younger.
 You realize why they insisted upon you learning math and foreign languages and writing all those essays. It has nothing to do with the subject matter but application process.
 Half of your possessions you don’t know where are.
 Candlelight really becomes you. It helps if your date is nearsighted and needs reading glasses.

Tain't funny McGee??

We started out funny. Life is funny. It’s hilarious and there are many hints in the New Testament that hold that God and sonny Jesus had a sense of humor and a genuine love for all upon this existence. Things work the way they work because it’s turns out, it’s the way it’s supposed to work. If you took a boulder and rolled it down a snowy mountain, you might end up with a gigantic snowball. If you then took another rock of similar size, but of a different type, and packed a bit of snow around it to make a ball and rolled it down, you might end up with another gigantic snowball. Chances are they might look identical. Or not. That’s the way life is. The sound of one hand clapping is two people, each offering his one hand to hit the other’s. A noise is a noise, regardless of ears to hear or not. Ask any deaf person. Sound creates a vibration and shift in matter in space. To my imagination, a bright light is like a loud sound, discordant and brassy. So with this stuff, we enter into Decembers, the big fa, la,la season. Be kind to one another. And love. Please.

night lights

At Bar Harbor, Maine, the area is blessed with a beautiful night sky as there is few artificial lights and surrounding water. They have passed an ordinance limiting lights and redirecting them with shades so that the sky is not flooded with artificial lights, (electricity pollution.) Great!! I remember going down butterfly highway in California at 3 in the morning toward Madera from the coast on a two-lane oldie, and noting the sky so splendid I had to pull over and stop. no artificial lights at all except from my car, and the stars were so brilliant, clear, and I felt I could just reach up and touch them. We should be more mindful of the 'flooding of the sky' with our lights at night. Surely we can have areas that our children and ourselves can again see the wonder of the night sky. Even now living in the Rockies and elevation, the city lights spoil the starshine. I want my stars back! Let's find a way to illuminate what we need to see without just creating an eternal daytime.

The holidays cometh

It's time again. No birds, no bees no treeleaves, no flowers, no green. November.Thanksgiving!!!! Ya. that's a bird, but it's naked. I think I have the flu. Half a flu. No vomiting, just sore bowels. Wonderful, I DID get the shot. It's irritating because I have a lot to do these days, and a do a little and then sit and rest, do and sit, do and sit. People remind me i'm 68, I say well fooey. I got too much to do to be 68.

I'm probably not alone. Most likely not. It's my blog and I'll whine if I want to. Good things coming up on Discovery mag and tv these days. Now am I a descendant of a bit of Neanderthal or is he my cousin? Or are we brothers and the chimp is a cousin?
It doesn't matter because when God made this model he put in a supercharged soul with a guilt button. Last time I will say this, there is no disagreement with evolution and religion, only in the opinions of individuals who insist on quarreling. And we are not the peak of Creation. Thanks be to God that we aren't, cuz we need more improvement in all fields, physical, emotional, social -- oh heck everywhere. Besides I think that Neanderthals are fine looking peoples. You live in animal skins and have no bathroom or hygiene or deoderant. They might have had soap and access to water. No barbers. Need the hair to keep warm.

Miss 'em, I do.

Sometimes I really covet all the 'toys' scientists have, the biologists, geologists, palentologists, computer geeks and astronomy guys and gals. I wanna play! At least we have Internet so we can look over their shoulders. Pass the cranberry!

Good information ==

Found this in my paper pile. Everyone has one. A paper pile. Even the most button-down mind has one, just alphabetized, catagorized and labeled.

would you believe --

snow I believe ..
Person commenting on my friend's t-shirt that said upon it "Cafe Area 51 -- IT'S NOT REAL, IT DOESN'T EXIST AND I NEVER WENT THERE." He said:

What is Area 51 and where is Area 51?

hmmm. What time hole did you jump out from? Who doesn't know what area 51 is? I thought it was in the general public consciousness by now.

Just goes to show.

The pumpkin's out. Looking forward to all the scary programs on TV. Yellow is the color of eight, August, according to those who see color attached to numbers and things. Purple is the number seven. I don't really remember seeing numbers and colors together, but numbers have shapes. But people told me they don't so I stopped seeing them that way. Still don't like the number seven or deep purple either, unless it's a eggplant.

Pluto,whatfore art thou?

It's been awhile. I've been watching the grapevines of communications and so far, no one has bought this up. Or someone has, and I haven't found it, in that case (gilda Radner) "Nevermind".

But. Pluto's orbit. The only one of the nine that do not lie in plane. It tilts above and below all the other eight and goes inside Neptune's orbit a bit enroute. Okay. So that is a trait that doesn't follow with the other eight. Therefore Planetoid?? Plutoid? Kuiper-ette? Pluto. Odd as a cod, bu-ghod.

Fall is autumning. Again. mi what a year so far. Gheeze! Stay tuned for really ridiculous, I daresay, prediction. Ahem: We are going to be in for a really unusual surprise before the end of this year. No, it's not Obama. He's different but not a surprise. Will intellect overcome bureauocracy?

September morn

lil howse. This child is claiming my attention. Painting commences downstairs -- Agnes, my roomate is 'redding' up the place for move in. Brother moving into his house, sister moving back in now that the renu is done We got furniture all over the place. When they say it's going to take twice the time and three times the money, they were right.

Whoo hoo! Whyfor does Venusian clouds look like they're shifting all the time? Could it be cuz it's so hot??? Question was posed by the Discover channel and I said, 'because its hot and the atmosphere boils like oatmeal'. I dunno anyway, Just an impulse thing. What if I'm correct?
Tomorrow we empty the truck again. I just working at shoehorning three households into one cute lil 3 and 2 the third household will be in when the basement is finished. THEN we will have a great savenger hunt followed by the mother of all garage sales.

Golly, September! Just around the corner. Dust off the pumpkins!

wELL WHY NOT I BEEN POSTING? Well it's a loooong story.. in short I bought me a new computer. Moved. Got 'charcot' foot in my other foot and it's painful. Does wonders to your concentration. But here I am, and soldering on. Bought a new house!!!! wonderful. now finishing basement and moving in stuff from everywhere. Since my mother passed on, there's her house, and mine, and my roomate's..... I could use about ten good stout young men. All I got is one old crippled me, and I'll admit one very amazing boyfriend who while 4 years older than I MUCH stronger.

Get to your young and tender while you can!!!! The habit of packratting ways has got to be eradicated! Moving is good for your garbage.

The pic is me standing in my boyfriend's kitchen. I promise not to let months go by from here on in. Blog on!!! And yes, I have been voting but I'm not sure why. Haven't 'won' a single election involving presidents since I started voting.

Well, it's March onward to ====

LOOKING FOR A HOUSE. WANTS 3 BEDS, 2 BATHS, BASEMENT, GARAAGE, FENCED BACKYARD. \So we are scouring our immediate neighborhood. We uuns with not much money have to scour.Be ready to pounce. Listen to the sound of foreclosure ----
Almost nailed one with 'contract, but didn't get fund okay in time. Poo. But we will find some humble digs to park me and my priceless stuff in.. INTO MY THIRD WEEK OF HUNTING..


"KILL THE RABBIT, KILL THE RABBIT --"

Construction begins --

I guess this will give you more access to me ===we'll see.

They moved the goalposts again

What a Year.

It's the Great Dying year for me. My girlfriend, my aunt, and now my mother passed over to The Other Side. It's an interesting feeling, she's gone physically but she's not gone. She's in my head and I can hear her talk and comment on things as if she's right by me in a physical sense. I am not overwhelmed by loss. I feel no loss -- just a change. We all got a bit weepy eyed, but for the most part, it was as if she just went 'out' --Still around but not a physical living flesh. Very interesting.

hot items

I repeat, this is not an actual photo. it is a doctored one. nice things, computers, no?

Now on the other hand, it is November but in the southern tip of Wyoming, we've had weather in the sixties and low seventies. Holy Global Warming!

basics

now howzzat? Dave took this picture just off his patio. It's glass-in so he just peered around the corner gently and this buck was within 6 feet of him. Some rack 'ey? Right in the city of Cheyenne, well on the edges of it He was accompanied by a doe who was a bit shyer.

Falling leaves already?

Aha, here is my by proxy grandson, a Rhodesian Ridgeback by the name of BEN. Actually he goes by Boney, sometimes, or BoneyBen or The Bone. He's a yearling son, and does not have a clue to his size or strength. The original floppy hounddawg. I went to PA this summer to visit my vet daughter and all of the surrounding Mercer County countryside. She's got geriatric horses and nice acreage with a pond and unbelievable scenery. Yow! Further news, NASA is getting around to the gravity thing, (good) and the random teeny poison flashes drifting around a bajuillion mph, and all the other dangers out there -- did you realize that a good stout poke with a pen could have pierced the luna lander's outer wall?? No sharpies there, please! I didn't know that. It pays to watch DISCOVERY channel. Science marches on at a breakneck pace, and in redoing my ms for my novel, discovered I had to upgrade the electronic gadgets and I've got to do RESEARCH!! ewww. Don't write epic journey novels that are set in present-near future... even if your characters are like mine, back country -- (even electronically challenged). Pluto is not a planet. Looky. Look at it's orbit. It's wonky. It goes beyond the plane of all the other relatively well-behaved planets, and it cuts rudely in front of Neptune in places. Also, Its a wee thing. So, I'm with the guys who demoted Pluto. I'm sure it's feelings aren't hurt a bit.

Whazzamattawiyou?????

Illustration is a wall I did for my friends in Fresno. Circa date about 1977 or so. Before I saw Hubble. If I had I would have done more color!!!

Now my subject. I am seeing and hearing and reading about the misuse of BLOGS online. Now it has become a unsavory buzzword. Various species of pondscum, and you know who you are, seem to take a very lovely and wonderful media vehicle and turned into your petri dish of filth. Apparently homo sap can sink to lows further than ones imagined by Dante in Paradise Lost. At least those sinners were in excrement only to their chins.

*Sighs* all around. I'm sorry peoples. Those of us who genuinely try to amuse, enlighten and otherwise comment, please carry on. We need more viable brilliance, not obvious afterbirth waste. Of course now, afterbirth has its value, at least for stem cell research and development.

I hear the hummm of watercoolers and air conditioners. Ya. Global warming is alive and well and cooking away. Shall we spike our electrical loads by the river??? Can I hear a new song for the ages?

Its all a matter of trust. If you are having problems with the animals in your midst, it's because they don't trust you. To solve the problem learn to establish trust within the language of the beast. Then, they'll meet you halfway.

I still like the idea of life on our planets and moons, if only eensy teensy microbials. That's enough for me to hope for the continuation of our species. Find Our Brethern!

Shall I hope for a settlement of gas prices? Let us see. Garbage may be our new platimum. Man It's been a month, and now Hoo-ly the fourth. Happy firework display!

Hooray Dr. Death!

He's out. Finally. Gross injustice here. Damnit, if people want to die, it's between them and God, not the courts or the law or any other nosy parker that want to butt in. So he can tell people how to do it. So he made a mistake in letting people know what he was doing. I think human dignity is worth something, and suffering is sujective. Please, we grant our animal friends more compassion!

Picture 102

Picture 102,
originally uploaded by Popokiknut.