Category: Shorts
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Thanksgiving Amusement
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe amused ourselves yesterday with Thanksgiving jokes. Better late than never. Enjoy! Why did the turkey join the band? Because he had the drumsticks. What did Pilgrims make bread out of? May flour. Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? ‘Cause they’re already stuffed. Why did the turkey bring a microphone? Because he… Read more
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Best Laugh All Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was talking to Lynn on our weekly video chat yesterday. She was unpacking a box of things she ordered from Amazon. She pulled out a new bag of Ancient Sea Salt and I started to laugh. You gotta love the big food industry in America these days. Ancient sea salt… Read more
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About That Excellent Nonsense
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week my friend, Carla, told me about a book she was reading with the genius title of Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy. I mentioned I’d like to read it and she gifted me with one of the 5 copies she bought at an author’s event recently. The premise of… Read more
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It’s Puzzling….
Reading Time: 2 minutesOk, it’s a play on words. But it’s got a purpose. One of my intentions in starting this blog was to chronicle the journey of life after work retirement, muse about what I’ve learned along the way, reminisce to relive the joy of life up to this point, and learn to stay… Read more
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That Wasn’t So Bad
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday I wrote about my love/hate relationship with smart phones. I was in the dread phase of the hate end of the relationship that morning because we had an appointment to get new cell phones on Wednesday. Today is Friday morning and Randy and I are both chock full of relief.… Read more
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It Took More Than 10 Years…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI first applied for Randy to be admitted to the VA Health Care system more than 10 years ago. I tried again after we moved to Florida. He was denied both times because our household income exceeded the threshold Congress set in a law passed in 2003. It’s not a particularly big… Read more
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A Sandy Mess
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’d spent the night in Tucson, AZ. On the morning of October 6, I went to the bathroom around 6 am and noticed I had a text from our next door neighbor asking us to call when we could. I didn’t want to wake Randy that early but I had a feeling… Read more
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Coolest Rest Stop Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery day truly is a new travel adventure. This week we’re in a part of the country we’ve never been through before, traveling I-10 East from Tucson, Arizona to San Antonio, Texas. From an interstate highway rest stop perspective, every state does things a little differently. On Tuesday we stopped at the… Read more
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A Relaxing Few Days
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past few days we’re back in the Sierra Nevada foothills where, when we lived in the Sacramento area for 12 years (1982-1994), we spent a heck of a lot of time. Our forever friends, Don and Ina live on 10 acres between Grass Valley and Auburn. They have 2 horses,… Read more
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And….We’re Off
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve written the last few weeks about some fairly weighty topics. I’m done with those for a while now and am ready to turn 68andCounting.com into a travelogue during our Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip–E50AGART, for short. We’ve been planning this for months. It’s evolved some since we spent a… Read more