January 22

Howdy again. I can hardly believe it but the word of the day is my rather full sized nose, 'lineament'. I have a lineament on my face! Word sure gets around. Blessed as I am with the lineament it doesn't enable me to smell any better than normal but when it begins to run it takes the snot longer to reach the drip area.

When I first sat down here I had something to say but like a sneaky fart it escaped me again leaving nothing but another stinky note. I wish I knew why I feel so compelled to send so many notes of nothing. I just can't figure it out. Must be because of the extra time I give myself by arising at 4:15 each morning. Of course in reality all I do is steal from the evening to add to the morning. Yep, early to bed, early to rise as I still strive for the wealthy and wise.

So far this year I've only put 66 extracurricular miles on my walking shoes. Only managed 807 miles all of last year so I plan to beat that old mark in 2010. Weight loss? Hey, all that activity needs extra food to make it possible. Extra food doesn't contribute much toward weight loss.

lineament noun: 1. A distinctive feature, especially of a face.
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You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

January 21

Well, our fodder's day is over and the results were mixed. The food at the buffet was rather a poor selection the first day but good the second. I ate too much both times but fortunately most of it will be eliminated in the end.

The food for thought that I acquired for my notes wasn't much. The gaming bit for me had a good run but it didn't last and in the end it turned into crap too. Thankfully Dory's had a good run that stayed with her. It enabled her to more than cover my little loss but not quite enough to cover the pickup transmission repair of $309.48.

I did my three mile trek before we left then with rain in the forecast for Wednesday morning I took a money saving break and did another three miles to cover that day. Got up Wednesday to a rainless sky so with rain in the forecast for Thursday I did another three miles to cover that.

To make up the three miles there, I walk part of the Katy Trail across the bridge over the Missouri River to Old Franklin. Then back across and through downtown Boonville before going back to the casino. The walk takes just over an hour and has some interesting sites as well as some interesting sights.

For Wednesday mornings walk it was a bit windy which makes it a lot windy crossing the bridge. It was also fairly foggy. The bridge sits very high above the river which if I accidently look down at the water my knees get week. In my old, I've developed a terrible fear of heights. Anyway a flock of geese must have been lost in the fog and nearly flew into me. It's good they were all honking at me as I was able to duck them. I'm gonna tell you that had I wanted to I could have goosed one of the geese.

Other things I saw or noticed was the oncoming traffic consists of mostly female drivers by themselves and 60% have a cell phone to their ear. Saw a blue condom on the trail about the middle of the bridge. Wondered some about that. Can't imagine anyone screwing around on that bridge. Noticed a very old building in the downtown that had a couple Nazi swastikas built in high on the front. Wondered some about that too.

This is getting to long, way past note size. Of course if no one reads it ......... it won't make any difference anyway, but I'll stop here just because.

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Sometimes it's more interesting to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

January 19

The warm and wetness has created a thick blanket of fog each morning for the last several days. A couple days it just hung around the whole day. I hate doing my walk in the fog! It is a real quite walk but that stillness isn't all that great! It gives an aged thought free mind a time to wonder if it is the weather or is it the old that is fogging my mind.

Today is fodder's day for us. I'm taking Glenda and a neighbor couple out for the night. We'll leave in a little while and with a stop in Jeff City, a stop in Columbia and then to Boonville, home of the con men at the Isle of Capri casino and hotel. Two free (ha) rooms and some free (ha) buffets will create some fodder for the body as well as well as some possible fodder for the notes.

Yes, I realize that my notes mainly consists of about 90% of what the eaten fodder changes to. I keep hoping that someday my notes might contain a little of the other 10% and have a little life in them.

My thoughtful sister sent me the great quote below.



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January 17

What do we have when there is not a whole lot of anything going on here? You might think nothing would be the proper answer but that would be wrong. The interpretation of the question is where the problem Lies. When is there never a whole lot of anything going on anywhere? All around us nature is a huge and busy thing, it never stops. Life is the same way. A human body has so many continuous things going on that it is too complicated to even think about. I can't help but wonder why I did. Anyway, the most humongous of happenings seem to be those things that we all kind of take for granted. Maybe a person should slow down and give in a little thought now and then.

Unlike nature, a human body will stop sooner or later so taking care of it, in hopes of extending it's use for as long as possible, should be a major daily consideration. But alas, things taken for granted get pushed around so much they get forgotten. Slipping in a little thoughtless body bad here and a little body bad there can possibly cause the natural consequences to accelerate. Whoa, what am I talking about? Get outta here!

When this fat abused body that I've been using for over 68 years is laying somewhere turning to dirt, where will I be? If you give all that a bit of thought the hereafter thoughts and daily prayers will surely abound. Tri-daily? Quadruple-daily?

Sorry, I just couldn't think of anything to type about again.



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Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.~Carl Sandburg

January 16

You don't need a gun to shoot the breeze but your mind needs ammunition to arm your mouth or fingers for the shot. Some of the material for the ammo can be bought or it can come from down home stuff. Either way the mind has got to hand load the materials into the projectile to make it useable. I haven't been out to buy any materials and I'm thinking, as I sit here, that my home obtained materials must have been wet because I can't get the fingers to fire again this morning. I've spent several seconds here trying, but I can't get it to shoot across this page. That means you don't need to be looking for the 'shot heard around the world' again today.

Too bad, are some of the things in this world but I tend to agree with you that this isn't one of them. Maybe we should even add it to our blessings when we count them.

Glenda is doing very well and even tho I know that it isn't one of your, 'I wonders', I'm doing pretty good myself. I don't think that I ever wanted to be a big man but I am one! And if I don't get off my butt and throw the books out, I'm going to be a REALLY BIG MAN!

Wishing you a great day!!


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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.~Friedrich Nietzsche

January 10

No time like the present....Matter of fact if you're not in the present you don't have any time at all. But I just wanted to say I have very little time at the present to devote to this failing endeavor. Yes I'm aware that the quality time I spend typing here is almost a complete waste of my time and some of yours too. Even if you hit the delete button right away without reading this it still takes at least a second then the wonder if you might have found something interesting for once will play in your head consuming a little more of your time. ........ Or it may not.

Only 7* again this morning just as it was yesterday morning when I finally pulled the old de-icer down from the garage rafters and put it into the water in the dock well. I checked it before I took it to the dock and it worked but wouldn't take off after in place. Back to the house to check all the switches and found the culprit, a switch upstairs in the off position. Shoulda, coulda put it in during a warmer time but didn't need it till now.

Gotta go now.......A lousy facebook game is calling me.
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The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.~Unknown

January 6

Still pretty cold here and is supposed to become even more so......Wait a minute! Let me think. Well, there may be some cold that is pretty but you need to be sitting in a nice heated area looking out the window. Probably at a snow covered landscape with a few large flakes still floating earthward. I realize now that I made a mistake when I said it was pretty cold here today. It is a really ugly cold! The sky is an ugly gray with a sharp wind whipping around blowing pieces of the white spotted brown covered ground around as it shakes the masses of dirty hanging twigs of varying sizes that not long ago were leaf covered limbs.

The local weathermen/women keep telling us big white stuff is about to happen here. Well, they do and they don't. One weatherman says South of Highway 50, which we are, could see one to three inches, then later in the forecast he puts a map showing the expected accumulation which shows five inches for here. Anyway I doubt that either of the amounts will deter us much from our usual path of living.

Nope, nothing to say again today.
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Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.~Karen Elizabeth Gordon

January 5

Kind of cold here at 5 degrees as said by our devise while the TV is saying we have no temperature at all. They say we are at a 0 degrees. But our hearth is warm as well as our hearts. My hands aren't cold so something must be amiss in that "cold hands, warm heart." Oh well, the sun shone shined brightly yesterday and will again today. It is so bright with all the white and the sunshine it is almost painful to look for any length of time out the window but I've been doing a lot of that.

I've been seeing two bald eagles flying around in our neighborhood. One immature and one mature bird. Yesterday the mature bird landed in the tree right outside the window in front of the computer. That's less than 20 feet away. Glenda was at the computer at the time and rather than reach 27 inches to her left for the camera she ran into the other room to get me. I did get to see the guy fly off from the window in the other room. Glenda said that he was a huge bird and very indescribably beautiful. After that I got sitting sores sitting here waiting for him to come back.

As cold as it is we're still thinking about a trip to Jeff City for a visit with Dory's mother. Hasn't really been decided yet which makes it an M or M kind of deal, we- may or may not.

It was just said that the temperature may come back later today, clear up to 12 degree. Dad gum this global warming!

My daily walk has become an im or im kind of deal. The 8 below zero wind chill factor has caused this I may or I may not thing.

If you bothered to read this so far, I surly don't want to waste anymore of your time so I'll just slip on out of this little note.......
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.~G. M. Trevelyan

January 4

Boy the weather this morning sure makes me think of Mississippi! The weatherman keeps saying it's Tupelo in Columbia. What a nice day to stay in the house!

Woke to a big white surprise yesterday morning but by 11:30 I finally had most of it cleaned off the road. Had a problem when a mounting bolt fell out of one of the snow plow brackets. Caused an extra trip or two because snow was being pushed out both sides of the blade. After I got it all plowed I spread 50 lbs. of salt on the two hills then drove up to the little store for some ATV gas. Our road was by far in better shape than the state road!

I noticed that even Nelson had to check the roads by driving out and I guess going to town. The pickup that he is driving is only a two wheel drive so our cleaned road enabled him to get out.

They're not so lucky on Memory Lane. On my walk I noticed where someone had been in the ditch over there. Our next door neighbor didn't drive out but looking at the footprints it appeared someone walked to the top of the hill and was picked up by a car. Anyway, where the footprints ended I saw where a car had turned around up there.
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Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Pepper Giardino

January 2, 2010

Yahoo! Another new year is here and we're still here too. Must be something to that saying, "What goes around comes around". Listen my friend, it isn't necessary to understand'em to type'em.

This day doesn't look that much different from the last few days including last year but I know it is a, 'one of a kind', that will never be seen again. Kind of scary isn't it?

When the day is gone the day is gone never to return again. All we may be able to keep of it are some memories or then there might be some of what you did yesterday day still standing today for you to see. I'd say if you didn't do anything that might leave a happy memory or do anything that could stand for a few days....salvage something. Do like me, take a picture.

Right on Swifty! Nothing to say for the 456th time running.

Had a few friends over to play cards and eat some black eyed peas and pickled herring yesterday. Yes sir'ree we're all ready for a healthy and prosperous 2010.
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Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone. - Tom Robbins