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Sooooo…..what else did I do today? Well, I welcomed @Dave Earl to our little slice here on earth ! Welcome to SoC Dave !!!!!

Procrastination is a winter sport that I whole heartedly and with no qualms compete it. If I did have any regrets this last winter they would be that there are no medals given out nor cheer leaders who rally around when I feel as though I have won. Alas it is indeed spring here so I did get...

What DID you do today? I ain’t did nary a thang so far. But: I’m thinking about stuff which I suppose is actually doing something but since no one can actually see me doing much of anything it’s deemed by outsiders that I’m doing nothing. Wrong again says I ! That lawn needs its first mowing...

In marriage, there are items that mark each anniversary such as gifts of tradition like cotton, iron, wool, steel, lace, gold, etc. I’m not really sure but I think the last one is diamond. Now, again, I’m not really sure but there has to be such things that mark our years on earth. I mean, we...

Woke up and realized that God granted me a successful triple bypass. I bypassed the hospital, I bypassed the morgue and bypassed the cemetery..

Not to be too corrective but Amen is sooo much more than an approval but rather, the literal definition of it is an affirmative statement of “So Be It”. As I and many others have taught, even though the word Amen hangs back there at the ending of a prayer, it isn’t the end of something but...

70 degrees yesterday in N. Alabama and today ? it’s snowing!!! Big flakes of white stuff coming out of a grey sky and no, I’m not going to make a flippin’ snow man ! Pack it up Babydoll ! We’re moving to Tahiti !!!

I saw a clip yesterday of an old guy who drove a John Deere riding lawnmower from Idaho to Wisconsin to see his ailing brother. He started out with an old relic of a lawnmower with a home-made supply trailer in tow, got a few miles out of town and broke down. When he got back home he grabbed...

Hey Von, just a question. Which version of the Bible do you study? Matthew 6: 9-13 in the KJV does end with the statement “for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen” It’s a given that Jesus was teaching his disciples a basic formula or rather, diagram for prayer so...

hmmmm…..it’s off topic but maybe the fact that I ask “huh” or “what” after my wife says something so many times is the reason I get so many ads for hearing aids in the mail. Of yeah, water heaters. The guy I manage some properties for brought me a good, but used water heater the other day. I...

My “welcome home” was such that the idea of moving to Australia made me give it a really hard look but after talking to an Australian friend I made in Nam, the welcome home wasn’t much better there. I did visit Melbourne and toured a little in New Zealand some time afterward but I’m still...

Back when I was fresh home from Nam, whilst the U.S. was offering 3 month early outs if we joined the Washington, D.C. police or C.H.I.P. in California, Australia was going to give us free farmland if we wanted to move there. I don’t know all the details about the farmland but it’s possible...

Americans, especially older Americans going to live in other countries isn’t like transposing a piece of music simply by moving a couple of flats or sharps. We seniors can barely move from one state to another without either being offensive or easily offended by something so trivial as a...

There have been American retirement communities in Mexico for years and years but recently, the Mexicans are pretty much wanting them to leave.

Just a note: For those who believe that as they age, they’re getting more grumpy: Using a bit of logic, as we age we understand that there are fewer and fewer living people with our experiences, morality and high quality ethics. So, by using the same logic, it is also understood that there...

If it were just me, I’d go back to living on a boat and preferably on the Mississippi. I’ve had a couple of RV’s and a self renovated Blue Bird school bus and actually lived in them when I was doing a lot of traveling across the U.S. Why I was traveling is a story for another day but suffice...

I also have some concerns about AI. All those high tech individuals constantly trying to improve on ARTIFICIAL Intelligence when they still haven’t learned how to fix REAL stupidity. Now, as to the topic of the thread, “Getting Old”, I’m already old so the “getting part” is kinda like saying...

For the reason you mentioned, Bromelain is not only one of the best meat tenderizers but also one of the best anti-inflammatory foods or supplements out there. For a tenderizer, either the powder from a capsule or from a macerated pineapple core can be used in a marinade for a tough piece of...

When I was a kid, I didn’t care about baseball nor the players so I and others in my neighborhood used baseball cards because they made louder noises in the spokes than standard playing cards. So, whilst we probably annoyed the local seniors with our constant rat-a-tats, I’m sure that those of...