February 28

Snowy looking day here and the knowing sometimes correct weather forecasters have all given us a 0% chance of snow. They didn't say it quite like that but that is the same thing they meant when they told us we had a 100% chance of the stuff. I'm not mixed up! Those fine fast food advertisements just have me thinking "out of the box".

Yesterday Butch, I mean Glenda and I made a successful trip to Osage Beach where we shopped, bowled, ate and Butch got her hair cut. While in HyVee I talked with a guy from Rocky Mount. He had the audacity to ask me who the guy was that he saw riding with me in my car earlier. It isn't really that short but if one doesn't stir things around once in awhile life could get pretty stagnant. Everyone knows that stagnation can be the ruination of the complete plantation and can create foul thoughts that could easily lead to health problems as well as marital problems. We've got to keep that blood pumping at a goodly rate and making up can sometimes be so sweet. We can get sunshine on a snowy day.

My out of the box thinking may be interfering with my normal confused state somewhat. I don't know but I've been told.

Today lays out before us like a big old eight lane highway interchange without signs so where we go we don't know. Just keep traveling those happy highways.

Happy trails to you also!
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It is not a lack of love, but a stagnating friendship that makes unhappy marriages.~Friedrich Nietzsche (edt)

February 26

A short time ago Glenda called down the stairs to tell me breakfast was ready. Whoopee! I was kinda hungry so I dropped everything I was doing and took the stairs two at a time. Rushed to the table only to discover a bare-assed bowl, a spoon beside it, the milk jug and a box of Cheerios. The disappointment put me so low it took three tries to jump up into my chair at the table. All I can say is it was a good thing I was hungry. I know, I know, I can fix my own breakfast in the future.

Glenda doesn't like me cooking or fixing things in the kitchen because as she say's, I'm too messy. She has always told me that she would rather do the cooking than clean up the mess after I cook. So before this morning I wasn't too sure that I could fix my own breakfast but after speaking a 67 year developed opinion of the offered, and then sitting there listening to her response for the rest of the mealxxxxx eating time, I definitely know now that I can fix my own breakfast and may be doing my lunch and dinner as things now stand.

Well I'll be doing my lunch for sure because it is Glenda's bridge playing day and that keeps her out before, during and after lunch time.

Some of Glenda's blasts of anger last two or three days while others just an hour or two. I'm full of hope that this burst will be one of the latter. I'm pretty full of Cheerios too, as I ate a lot more than I really wanted in an attempt to show her how much I liked them after all.

Yep, I'm full of it and around here this morning it sounds like I may be forced to take up golf! If I can't have a couple things that I enjoy doing I guess one will have to surffice.
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"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at."~Jimmy Demaret:

February 24

Time is a dictator and a thief; there is no happy way to circumvent it. There are those who have no thoughts of time or no thoughts about a lot of other things as far as we know but time still affects them. I suppose those folks could still be happy in there somewhere.

Finally, after years of wishing, the neat life of retirement comes to pass but still time won't bow to your new way of life. If anything it becomes a worse enemy as it begins to cause a pain somewhere in your body then slips in more at a couple other places. It begins to blur your eyesight and dim down your hearing as it begins to expend it's pent up vengeance. It has been in the wings waiting to get back at you for all those years when you didn't hardly give it a thought. It is now that you begin to understand it's main objective is to kill you dead! Time is a dictator and a thief; there is no way to circumvent it!

Time was heavy on my mind this morning because our schedule has us leaving here pretty quick, heading to Boonville for the free buffet and the race. Something like a race anyway. We'll play a couple of the gaming devises which is kinda like we're racing to use up our tiny bit of money before the tally sheets show our investments at zero.

Gotta go!
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Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.~Obama

February 21

It was 33* and snowing big time around 5:10 this morning. Even Mikey refused to go out for his morning relief. Now the temperature is down to 30 with hardly a cloud in the sky. Only a little white dusting on most everything but the road was what we saw when it got light enough. I doubt that pretty white stuff will stay very long.

Our fast diminishing 'no work funds' that we had saved has began to worry us. The huge hope that it would allow us the ability to stay jobless till the end is becoming infested with doubt. Our Social Security checks do help immensely but the wonder of, will we still be receiving them to our end, has increased our load of concern that we carry.

All this worry pumping through Glenda's head doesn't stop when she goes to bed either. She sighs and rolls around most of the night. Her rolling around on the bed all night could inspire a possible gratifying move on my part but that sad sigh is a killer. That dead thought gets buried pronto and because I'm too dumb to worry enough to prevent my sleep I make my normal nights visit to la la land.

Glenda, against my wishes, enrolled us in a tile laying class at Home Depot today. Now I'm thinking it might be a good thing. To survive the future, we should attempt to learn any possible income producing skills that are out there. Especially if the classes are free.
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How are we going to live today in order to enjoy the tomorrow we saved for? - Anthony Robbins

February 19

Sitting here looking out across the calm waters of the abandoned playground of self gratifying seekers in their big boats or on the backs of their wave runners, I feel at peace. These are the type waters and the proper atmosphere that one can truly enjoy. The lake has been pretty well turned over to the fishermen and dock repairers. Their numbers don't come close to the warm weather happy time destroyers. This is a good time to live on the lake. Or should that be a better time to live on the lake.

It is a good idea for a person to be as happy as he can with who they are, what they are and where they are, no matter what the conditions. It doesn't hurt to have a few friends either. The thing is, if a friend can't claim much of the aforementioned happy, their skin seems too thin and the friendship floats mighty close to the surface. A little prick here or there and gone is the, so to speak, friendship. Sure, there could be a multiple of reasons for such an evaporation but all of them raise the same question, was such a thing really ever there?

There are many a detour along this crooked road of life, some of them pretty bumpy but never fear, everyone of us will get to our final destination eventually.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.~Alice Walker

February 18

Another great day here in Missouri! The great is not daunted at all by the clouds covering the sun and not letting even a tiny ray to peek thru. The great is not lessened any by the forecast of a little rain shower later with the possibility of snow thrown into the mix either. Great is a mind over matter thing and I think we, as well as most every one else, have the power to make of a day what we want. We want our days to be great here!

Keeping ones mind on great never seems to work when I begin my note typing and maybe at a few other things as well. But life is still swell and given enough of it I might be able to practice my notes into something better. Does that read a little like a plea? Gimme and I'll give....... Maybe my belief is just too weak.

Whatever.......I'm giving up on this one.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.~Frank Lloyd Wright

February 13

It isn't wrong but nothing to right again. Received 2.6 inches of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday and some more of something coming this way but the thought is it will miss us again.

Not a lot new going on around here. Well, I guess we do have quite a bit of new carbon dioxide hanging around. Now, as well as while we slept, our bodies continue to suck in oxygen and blow out to the environment, new carbon dioxide. In every twenty four hour period of regular living, a person sucks and blows on an average, over 28,800 times. Most without any effort or thought. Amazing isn't it. I'm thinking about it now and I'm just as thankful as I can be for all the friends and relatives out there who are still sucking and blowing.

We're all still taking it in and blowing it out, doing our part in helping the trees grow. To show us their thankfulness they return the favor by kicking back to us new oxygen. It seems everything runs in a cycle of some sort.

The average adult at rest inhales and exhales something like about one-fourth of a cubic foot of air per minute. That totals something like 2,800 cubic feet in a day.

The air that is inhaled is about 20-percent oxygen, unless you're in or near a nasty city, and the air that is exhaled is about 15-percent oxygen, so about 5-percent of the volume of air is consumed in each breath and converted to carbon dioxide. Therefore, a human being uses about 150 cubic feet of pure oxygen per day.

It’s a simple and indisputable Fact that Oxygen is necessary to sustain a Healthy life! Clinical studies show that a human being can live for days without water, and weeks without food but without Oxygen biological death begins to occur within three minutes. Oxygen is the miraculous element that permits life to exist and flourish on earth!

Coming up with something from nothing is still nothing of which I have just proven again. You're welcome.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.- Democritus

February 12

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February 10

A couple guys fired up the boring machine yesterday and so the job has officially begun. Rain coming so they won't work long. I did get the facts about working in the rain. In an emergency and if they are authorized they will be paid double time. If they are not authorized and get caught working, in even a tiny shower, by a union rep they will be fined $500.00. Doesn't make cents to me but could make several dollars for the union.

The news media has about worn me out with the heroics of, Chesley B. Sullenberger, the pilot of flight 1594. I will say he did perform a wonderous task in sitting the plane down on the Hudson in one piece and was good help in getting all the folks off in one piece too. Gee whiz! That was a month ago.........give it a rest!

If old C. B. is a normal but skilled person his first thought would have been, "Oh my God, my ass is dead if I don't do something". After which he skillfully saved his own life while another 154 people just happened to be there to tag along.

I don't mean to take anything from him but I'm hard put to believe he had the 154 others higher in his mind than himself. At least until he and the others were all down safely.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. -George Eliot

February 9

This wasn't the first time and you would think I would learn, but this morning I once again was driven to my knees by a tiny tap to my elbow. Down there quick sweating and sopping. I must remember when carrying two full cups of coffee from the kitchen to the bedroom, keep the elbows tucked in!

It is amazing how a person can carry full cups of anything without spilling a drop but let a third unwanted factor slip in and sloppy goes the game. It probably worked out for the better.

Even tho I had said my morning prayers before alighting, finding myself on my knees seemed like an ideal position to pray again. I did add in a request during the prayer for forgiveness of some of the words that I had used right after the bumping/sloshing too.

We've got a JT3020 Ditch Witch boring machine sitting at the top of Memory Lane. Our underground electrical burying is about to begin. Of course with the all the rain in the forecast it probably won't get very far.

The guys told me they don't work in the rain...even sprinkles because the pay increases way too much. They were sitting in their truck last job during some sprinkles and told me bad would happen if they were caught out working in it. What a job.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.~Will Durant

February 6

Lolling around in bed this morning, after a couple cups of coffee and past hearing the news and weather, I was eager to go. I did take time, as I leered at Glenda, to tell her I thought the conditions were just about perfect for a couple of things today.

She agreed and said that with the forecasted mid-sixties temperature coupled with a strong wind, one of the aforementioned would be flying a kite. Then she stated that if I was going to make anything it will be a kite, so as to take advantage of that near perfect condition I probably should get started.

That remark quickly slapped the pulsating passion right out of me and the inferred rejection made me feel pretty crappy. Anyway, I got up and went about my chores all the while trying to shake that bad feeling. Was doing real good too, until I cleaned out Tomi's litter box. While viewing the contents of the dust pan, the crappy feeling returned.

I'm feeling better now and it's time to take the walk around.
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"Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains." - Giovanni Ruffini

February 4

11 degrees outside to start our day here.......even without the wind that is a pretty cool place to be. I'm sure there are a few positives along with the negatives relating to cold but can't really think of one. That inability is probably caused by our watching the news when we first awake. Just about 99.9% of all the news is negative and prompts most unwary watchers to slide down the scale instead of climbing up it.

One negative would be that it discourages one to venture outside. That lack of outside exercise and sitting on ones backside can contribute to an additional weight gain. If you are as brave as I and make it to the outside, tho there are very few other folks in the neighborhood, as unhandy as it is, the cold necessitates you back into the house to relieve the pressure that five cups of coffee creates.

One might be positive was heard on the TV this morning when the weather person forecast a high of 60* for tomorrow.
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This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. -Orson Scott Card

February 3

Not a lot to be said about yesterday other than it's gone and today has taken it's place. We're given another chance to hopefully make good in some way for us as well as others. You know that after a day is past it's gone for good and it's impossible to go back to change anything. That might be a good thing to keep in mind full time. A wasted day didn't stop your body from aging nor the wind from blowing.

Don't let your days go to waste! Too many flushed days could find a man gone without living a huge portion of his life. Or so old and decrepit that he can only sit and daydream about things he should have or could have done. Geez! It must have been something I read.

I've got a huge 'useless' list of things I want to accomplish today. You know how it goes, when Glenda arrives on the scene is when my list becomes useless and her list mysteriously becomes the only one. You would think her list would be a 'WE DO' but it isn't, it is just a 'LARRY DO' list. Stupid me, I'm lovin' it!

Retired life is grand and as you can see I really have got to search hard to find something to complain about. I search hard because based on all my years of experience and noting how they do it on the news, people want to hear of trials and tribulations of life rather than any happy stuff.

So as it really is, is not necessarily said. It's kind of like reaching in after you've mixed up a bunch of words, grabbing a handful then throwing them at the computer. You get to read what sticks. That could be good ....or that could be bad. Either way the old emergency delete button works just fine.
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Happy begets happiness. Make someone happy today.

February 1

Did my duty and drove Glenda and Keith to the boat in Boonville yesterday where we all enjoy a few of the games there. I can't say how many Keith enjoyed but I was only able to enjoy a very few. Glenda however, enjoyed almost everyone of them. Yep, she was able to cover 68.40 of my 69.40 pound loss and come home with $25 more than we both took. The one she failed to cover was a surprised weight loss. I think there are times that using the British currency for a loss is quite a bit less painful than the USA dollar.

Doris was in the plan to accompany us but she came up feeling down and decided not to go.

The drive wasn't too bad up but coming back a very fierce wind kept trying to blow us off the road. Caused the need for both hands on the wheel and some intense concentration which blessedly somewhat tempered my feeling like a reject.

Game day today and it sounds like a lot of folks are really really excited................Why? Don't they have a life? It worries me some, that so many, to be happily entertained, need a bunch of guys running up and down a field fighting over a ball.
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"Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it."-Luke Salisbury