Time to get off my Duff

Good morning:

Let’s start out with a play on words.

What do you call a car the has a lot of mileage on it?

Tyre-d

What do you call a snowman in summer?

A puddle

What type of fish loves to swim together?

A-groupa

I did a theatrical performance about puns. Really it was just a play on words.

Which day do chickens hate the most?

Friday

Okay, enough of that nonsense. Let’s end this with a joke about a very wise old woman. A very wise old woman was asked what she would rather get – Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, and she answered the question very quickly.

“Parkinson’s”

When asked why she chose that disease over the other, the wise woman replied –

“I’d rather spill half my wine than forget where I keep the whole bottle.

Back to the drawing board- it is getting hard to come up with these quips, funnies, and what have you.

In any case, I hope you got a chuckle and a smile out of this nonsense, Enjoy your Saturday. Me, I’ve got some thinking to do!

Time to get off my butt!

I see it has been a while since I’ve written here and there is a perfectly good reason for doing so. On July 28th of this year lost my wife of 62 years to leukemia and, well to be completely honest with you, I have been floundering ever since.

But, at one point I need to recognize that life changes, sometimes for the best, sometimes for the worst. The secret is to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and move forward.

Writing has been a way for me to, how shall I put this, disconnect from the outside world and plot a new path because as they say “Life does move on!”

So, I hope to be back to writing regularly although I am not sure if it will be daily, weekly, monthly.

Look forward to being back in front of the computer again.

Y’all take care now, ya hear!

The Present

If there is one thing I would change about myself, it is to make sure I am living in the present.

With all that is going on in the world today, it is somewhat easy to consume our tomorrow by fretting about our yesterdays or even trying to imagine what future days will be like.

How does one do that? By not allowing ourselves to be distracted with our past trauma and worries. What good does worrying about them. It is this moment, this time that is the most important thing that our minds and bodies should be concerned about. It is easy to get stuck worrying about the past or even considering what may or may not happen in the future. We can free ourselves of this, shall I say habit, by spending more time being aware of our thoughts.

We recently had a life-changing event, and my thoughts are such that I will make the best of each day doing things that either please me or please my loved ones. Things like writing, reading more, and yes, even doing challenging puzzles or quizzes (Sudoku, word Zen, and others come to mind). Things that sort of take you out of the reality of it all, if just for a moment or two, to allow one to give thought to what is important and what we have control over.

So, what came to my mind, other than doing necessary household chores and taking care of my wife? Writing.

Fun Pun or two:

The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in accord.

The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.

Being a senior and writing for seniors, below is a list of what, today, might be called Senior Rock Bands:

Grateful Not Dead

Moody and Blue

No-Fat Cream

Blood, Sweat, and Call the Doctor

Crosby, Stills, Nash and the Old.

That is just a few, I’ll save the others for another post.

Well, I think it is time to bring this to a close, so I have more to write next post.

Hope you all enjoyed it. My secret to living a happy retirement life is finding things that please me and doing them to keep my mind and body active.

Until next time!

Push/Pull

Push can get you almost anywhere, except through a door marked ‘pull’.

Right

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.