The Joy of Age

The Joys of Getting Older

CALL THE POLICE– WHEN YOU’RE OLD, AND YOU DON’T MOVE FAST,

George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?”  He said “No,” but some people broke into my garden shed and are stealing from me.”  The police dispatcher said “All patrols are busy; lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available George said, “Okay.”  He hung up the phone and counted to 30, then phoned the police again.  “Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed.  Well, you don’t have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both; the dogs are eating them right now,” and he hung up. Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two FireTrucks, a Paramedic and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips’ residence, and caught the burglars red-handed. One of the Policemen said to George, “I thought you said that you’d shot them! “George said, “I thought you said there was nobody available!” True Story ……Don’t Mess With Old People!

How Stupid is this? I will not frame this photo for my desk

The only redeeming virtue of this scene is the intarsia piece hanging on the wall called Three Roses.

GETTING OLDER A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. 
“Is it true,” she wanted to know,
“that the medication  you prescribed has to be taken 
for the rest of my life?” 
“‘Yes, I’m afraid so,”‘ the doctor told her. 
There was a moment of silence 
before the senior lady replied, 
“I’m wondering, then, 
just how serious is my condition
because this prescription is 
marked  ‘NO REFILLS’..”
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An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery  and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon,  perform the operation. 
As he was about to get the anesthesia,  he asked to speak  to his son.”Yes, Dad, what is it?”  “Don’t be nervous, son;  do your best, and just remember,  if it doesn’t go well, if something happens to me, your mother is going to come and live with you and your wife….” 
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Aging: 
Eventually you will reach a point
when you stop lying about your 
age  and start bragging about it. 
This is so true.  I love  to hear them say 
“you don’t look that old.” 
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The older we get, the fewer things 
seem worth waiting in line for. 
(Mostly because we forgot why we 
were waiting in line in the first place  !!) 
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Some people try to turn back their odometers.  Not me!  I want people to know why I look this way.  I’ve traveled a long way  and some of the roads weren’t  paved. 
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra. 
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One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young. 
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Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable. 
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First you forget names, then you forget faces.  Then you forget to pull up your zipper…  it’s worse when you forget to pull it down. 
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Two guys, one old, one young, are pushing their carts around Wal-Mart  when they collide. 
The old guy says to the young guy, “Sorry about that.  I’m looking for my wife,  and I guess I  wasn’t paying attention  to where I was going. “The young guy says, That’s OK, it’s a  coincidence. 
I’m looking for my wife, too…  I can’t find her and I’m getting a little  desperate.” 
The old guy says, “Well, maybe I can help you find her… what does she look like?” 
The young guy says, “Well, she is 27 yrs. old, tall, with red hair,  blue eyes, is buxom…wearing no bra, long legs,  and is wearing short shorts. 
What does your wife look like?’ 
To which the old guy says, “Doesn’t matter,  — let’s look for yours.” 

Frogdom?

My pond never ceases to amuse me. This evening I got the urge to begin feeding my goldfish. As I stepped onto the first stone of the pathway at the waters edge a streak of green flashed from my shoe to become splash. A smallish leopard frog with a colorful body pattern and some bright hues of green floated at the edge of a lily pad resting from his leap. No sooner than I took note of him another one jumped even further just as my shoe was about to squish him.

Frogs have been plentiful this season and I wonder if it is because I stocked the pond with goldfish. It is rare to see a small school of six fish and never a school of 24 which is the number I released. Those fish that I do see are much bigger than I bought. Evidently, they are eating any and all organic matter growing in their environment. The frogs on the other hand are carnivorous and enjoy feasting on scrumptious goldies. My logic makes me wonder if the frogs are winning the battle of survival.

One hope I have is that the fish continue to spawn throughout the season. One fish that I released was an algae eating plecostomus.

He is black and disappeared immediately into the darkness of the water. I have dreams that one day soon when I am skimming algae that he will appear latched onto the back of my hand. In a dream he and I are rolling around in the water. Me trying to escape his grip and he trying to take a bigger bite.

The mosquitoes are rather annoying this evening and I must escape from the patio into the house. I’ve done my bit for nature by acting as a mosquito target for the past hour. I have one giant itchy bump on the base of my left thumb and it is driving me mad trying to resist scratching. As I am writing about my thumb, I feel squads of skeeters attacking my hair. The joy of nature has suddenly ceased, and has become a wild urge to begin slapping all about my body and heading for the door.

Root Cause(s)

In a world gone awry I have stopped feeding my mind with non-stop cable news and internet news. Too much of what I see in the headlines is geared at trying to convince me that “a” is wrong and “b” is right. None of what they say is fact. Even I could write news blurbs based on my own fanciful ideas. The term coined by President Trump to describe this phenomenon is “fake news.” What really bothers me is when a particular fake news bit is parroted by untold numbers of reporters across the spectrum of broadcasters. They don’t even try to change the words to make their own version a little bit spicier, they just repeat the printed word laid before them. I once read that the lowest paid newscaster earns $140,000.00 a year. That means these yokels are being paid astronomical sums of money for being able to read.

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This morning I scanned the headlines of Breitbart as I always do before I begin my day. Scanning headlines is all I need and that is where I stop. Everyone is blaming President Biden for the retreat from Afghanistan fiasco. The poor bastard owns it but he is not the root cause of the problem. It took me a lot of months of training in quality control to finally begin to understand the concept of root cause, and here is my take on it. The root cause of our current Afghanistan retreat is not Biden, it is the American people who voted this sick bastard into place. It goes deeper than just our votes, it goes into all the mentally retarded politicians who campaigned against Trump. Like the Never-Trumpers, and the RINO’s, the news agency’s, and then to all the Democrats who lust for power and who allow their consciences to over rule any immoral corrupt method of voting irregularity to make a win happen.

President Biden should not be blamed for this fiasco but we should empathize with him and his feeble mind. The world knew he was a poor candidate, he has a record of over forty years of no accomplishment in the Senate to back him up, yet we the people decided we hated Trump more than we disliked Joe’s weak record. I think I have to recall my comment about Biden being sick, and to place the sickness on the twisted mentality of the voters who put him in place.

Over sixty million voters voted against Biden, but more than that voted for him. That puts those people into the column in favor of the sick political philosophy pf socialism. That is right, over half of the population is a bunch of lazy-ass, stupid jerks who prefer sitting on their fat-asses drinking beer and feeding themselves non-stop greasy chips while watching mindless entertainment on TV, as opposed to earning an honorable living.

In the past week I’ve had to do a lot of driving. Most time when I stop I find a grubby looking person walking the white line holding a crudely made cardboard sign appealing for help. My mind goes nuts with replay of all the hiring signs I saw along the way. Why isn’t this person spending his energy applying for a job?

Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for this American dilemma, except to brainwash our kids while in school about the virtues of capitalism and the evils of socialism. The problem is that the socialists are winning the war of children’s minds, as they did the minds of their parents a generation earlier. Maybe I am all wrong about what the root cause is, perhaps I should shift the blame to the educational system that feeds socialism into the minds of our kids.

President Obama’s goal to fundamentally change the country is becoming a reality even though he never really defined what that phrase meant.

I wonder if there is any possibility of winning this battle when it is like a cancer that has metastasized to every organ in the body and I am asking a lowly country doctor to cure the patient.

Garden of Joe’s Eden

What the hell, why don’t I share something personal for a change? This blog is about me and my life, and not about generating huge readership numbers. Although I enjoy seeing stats that indicate that people read my writing. Most of the visitors and followers are interested in doing business. They join me just too generate numbers that will move them into monetization and money. Nothing wrong with that, but my aim is to generate catharsis from my own life decisions that back fire or worse yet don’t even make a dent. At least when I make a decision that sets me back I know I made change. It is the decision that doesn’t yield any form of movement that destroys me. They are wasted ideas and cost energy and time.

Today, I opened an email to myself which contained a group of photos that I took randomly about my garden. I love the colors of nature, they inspire me. Just a few evenings ago I looked out the kitchen window and saw a unique lighting situation that produced some really intense colors.

Two days ago I looked out and saw a sight that I will probably never see again. There was a swarm of dragon flies flitting all about the yard swooping, diving, soaring, and looking like purple martins having a feast on mosquitoes. One never knows what nature will gift me with next.

Here are some of the photos that turned me on:

210811-Proof Reading?

Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say? 


Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter 


This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this.

It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day.

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I just couldn’t help but send this along. Too funny. 
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says 
Really? Ya think?

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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 
Now that’s taking things a bit far!

Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over 
What a guy!

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Miners Refuse to Work after Death 
No-good-for-nothing’ lazy so-and-so’s! They must be UNION ! 
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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant 
See if that works any better than a fair trial! 
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War Dims Hope for Peace 
I can see where it might have that effect! 
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If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
 
Ya think?! 
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Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures 
Who would have thought! 
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Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
 
They may be on to something! 
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Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges 
You mean there’s something stronger than duct tape? 
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Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge 
He probably IS the battery charge! 
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New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group 
Weren’t they fat enough?! 
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Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
 
Do they taste like chicken?
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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
 
Chainsaw Massacre all over again! 
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Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
 
Boy, are they tall! 
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And the winner is… 

Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
 

Did I read that right? 
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