Life is full of obstacles that we have to overcome and deal with and how we choose can either make or break a situation. Take Bill for instance he knows he isn’t suppose to eat anything with seeds or nuts and to avoid corn. Even popcorn with those little kernels can give him a flare up of diverticulitis. For the longest we have been removing the seeds from tomatoes and cucumbers, but Saturday night he decided he would chance not removing the seeds.

Bad choice, he has been in so much pain the last three days and had to go to the doctor yesterday and now he is on antibiotics and has missed 2 days of work which is fine because of all the stress, but if my Son calls before he is healed about the baby coming I will have to postpone the visit so hopefully this new obstacle will resolve itself shortly before my Son calls. From now on no more chances on any type of seeds we don’t need or want an operation.

Speaking of operations either today or tomorrow my Son is having his gall bladder removed so I have that to concern myself with plus they will be doing a biopsy on some nodules they found on his lungs, he didn’t sound really concerned about that, but you never know with things of that type. Hopefully his wife wont go into labor at the same time. We’ve been planning this trip for several months now, but as usual some obstacle pops up that might put a clunker in our plans.

Life is certainly challenging at times and I’m often reminded of that misquote about the best laid plans of mice and men etcetera. ( “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” )

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I have been trying to think of all the great things that all you young people have to look forward to as you get closer to those golden years, but to date to be honest not many come to mind except having the service charge at my bank stopped and I’m really looking forward to the Denny’s senior discount at 55 of course since Bill is 60 he gets a senior discount at Country Buffet and wow they even pulled his name for a free meal now how cool is that to look forward to?

Well, that was 2 months ago and we still didn’t collect on that one. We were going to take Nate there for breakfast this past weekend, but I was sick and Bill didn’t want to go without me so he made Nate pancakes and rode him around on the scooter. Okay, Grandkids is a good one you can look forward to and I just recently cleared Nana as my chosen name for the new Grandbaby because I really don’t ever want to be called Granny.

I know your really going to enjoy all those wrinkles and stiff joints and all those trips to the doctor, of course I haven’t made a habit of the doctor visits yet, but I know it will come in time because something always seems to be wrong with the older people that I know and that’s something else you’ll have to look forward to you can sit around comparing all your strange illnesses and try to out do each other.

Really old people seem to have a different odor, now that’s really something to look forward to. No matter how good the hygiene may be there is simply an old smell it could be from changes in the glands, deteriorating cells, medications, being around all that junk they have collected all their life, old clothes that they have worn for a hundred years, all those yucky smelling moth balls to preserve stuff, which I totally refuse to use.

Whatever causes the old age smell that is something that I simply don’t look forward to. I have noticed though because we are living longer now and taking better care of ourselves that the old age smell is occurring a lot later than in years before. I actually was looking forward to being wiser, you know the one about wisdom coming with age, but I now realize that I seemed a lot wiser when I was younger, but didn’t know how to use the wisdom I had.

For all you young people, live your life and enjoy the now and make everyday count, don’t take everything for granted because before you know it you’ll be where I am, not that I’m unhappy because I’m not and I really wouldn’t want to be young again I just didn’t realize I was going to have all these old age aches and pains until I was actually ancient, but I do look forward to waking up each morning and that’s something everyone can really look forward to at any age.

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I haven’t felt like posting for several days, but since I feel semi human today I guess I should post something new so people wont think I shot myself with my handgun.

I’ve been looking for a used Rebel, but every time we thought we found one it was already sold. We did find a used Suzuki 125 that was used in a safety course and has a lot of dings and nicks, but Bill now has it running great so all I need is an inspection.

I really don’t care if it’s pretty yet because that will come in time after I learn to ride a real motorcycle and change gears. I’m quite sure I may drop it a few times myself before I get the hang of things.

It was missing mirrors and front and back turn signals because that’s the first things they remove at the safety course. We bought second hand ones for now and even at second hand prices that was 80 dollars.

The bike cost 700 dollars so at that price I can still keep my scooter and if I want to upgrade to a sportster I guess we will just trade in both at that time because the garage space is getting a lot smaller now.

Bill is going to make it a bobber even though I will still keep my mirrors and blinkers almost everything else will be stripped. I want a trike seat that’s on springs instead of the original seat it has now.

I was worried about the weight of a motorcycle, but this one is only a 125 and it doesn’t intimidate me so I think it should do nicely to learn on. After Bill gets it prettied up I may not want to trade it in, but it is a 91 so who knows?

Below is the before photo and after I learn how to ride and he paints it and all the other cool personal stuff to make it mine I’ll post the after.

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Bill and I were talking about all of the home invasions that have been occurring around our area and it is usually perpetrated on the elderly and single people, any household that appears to be an easy target. We have 2 dogs and it really doesn’t bother me that they bark when people go by that way at least it lets people know that we might have big old mean dogs and to stay away.

We do have hand guns and Bill just renewed his permit. I have always been very leery of guns and I do have a healthy respect for what they can do. I have often wondered if I could actually shoot someone and I really don’t have an answer for that question. I guess it would depend on the situation and how desperate I might feel. Bill just gave me a 25 automatic and I was holding it the other night to see how it feels.

I have on occasion wanted to shoot my pc, but not sure about a person. Bill told me he would take me to the shooting range and teach me how to shoot. I wouldn’t mind learning with something small like the 25 automatic. I would think that you just aim and fire, but I guess I would need to know where to aim. It would seem that I would have to be pretty close to someone with that to stop them.

When I was 17 my husband decided he would teach me to shoot a rifle and he totally lied to me and said it wouldn’t kick me. I was excited to learn, but I had no plans to ever go shoot anything like he did. He gave me a 12 gauge and showed me what to do and when I squeezed the trigger it almost took my shoulder off, the sorry creep. After that he bought me a 410, but by then I was done.

I hope it never comes down to me finding out if I would shoot someone and under what circumstances, but if it ever does I at least want to know what I’m doing.

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Do you remember Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous? I always watched that show because I loved seeing all the exotic locations around the world and the beautiful locations that the ultra rich spent their vacations. It doesn’t hurt to dream about taking those luxury skiing holidays to Courchevel, France or St Anton, Austria and staying in one of those luxury ski chalets kicking back by the fireplace drinking wine and hot chocolate, of course not together.

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is actually called Chalet Cardamines and it’s located in Meribel, France and the photos make the place look so cosy and inviting. I’m not an avid skier like many of my friends because my bones are getting too old, but I could certainly enjoy relaxing in these surroundings and pretending like I was. I can’t wait till Bill retires and we can do some traveling. Our travels may not be as luxurious as The Rich and Famous, but at some of these prices we may be able to make some fantastic memories.

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I have often wondered what amenities I simply couldn’t live without and I have come up with toilet paper and my inside bathroom, but of course you have to have inside plumbing water to flush it down plus the system to carry all that crap to some place that we don’t have to mess with it. Can you possibly imagine the horrible mess we would have to contend with if we didn’t have a sewer system? That whole system is brilliant.

I remember the out houses of old, but I’m sure many of you have no clue even though you’ve probably used a jiffy john before. It’s no fun traipsing through the cold and literally freezing your butt off  just to take care of business. Maybe you have gone camping and roughed it a couple days, but I bet you had toilet paper with you. Whoever thought up toilet paper was a genius.

There are many things that make our life so much easier and I’m very grateful for each and every one of them, but toilet paper is unique. You can do a search and find out all kinds of trivia and facts about toilet paper. I found some of it interesting reading and I’ll be forever grateful to Joseph C. Gayetty of New York for producing the first packaged toilet paper in the U.S. in 1857, brilliant man.

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