Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. I am pleased to announce that I have made another trip around the big yellow ball in the sky that we call the sun. Even though we know that it takes the same amount of time to go around in a big circle, it just seems to be going faster and faster the older I get. Maybe it feels that way because I can see the end of the road much clearer than the beginning of this journey. With that being said, you also look at all the things you wanted to do and have on your bucket list, and yet time continues to fly by and many of those choices are slowly but surely taken away from you. I mean, you are not going to suffer because you never got to ride that yak in the Himalayas, but it does leave a little bit of you wondering what it would have been like and imagining the Facebook pictures. Anyway, it is what it is, and it is up to me to make the best of what I have and be thankful for the blessings I have been given. Besides, I never really had a yearning to ride a yak. LOL. Anyway, no big plans. I did decide to take a vacation day, just so I can sleep in a bit and enjoy the day with a little less stress. I did do something special, but not for me. I have a salesman with the same birthday as mine. He is a good guy, and we have become good friends over the years, and, of course, we exchange gifts. One year he was visiting his son out west – he is in the military – and they went to a baseball game. He bought me a nice baseball jacket, an official Colorado Rockies…which is not cheap. So, this year, I decided to go out on the limb a bit and bought him some Alaskan crab legs [4 of them] …flash frozen, direct from Alaska. These are what they call “super crab legs”…and they run like $66 a pound; and a pound is about what each leg weighs. So, I certainly hope he and his wife like crab!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Birthdays are good for you. Statically the more birthdays you have, the longer you live.” Dogpound Wisdom
SMILES
Susie: “My husband is a great handyman. He can repair almost anything.”
Jane: “My mother always taught me to beware of the man that can fix everything. You’ll never get anything new.”
It was very crowded at the supermarket, and the customer in front of me had a large order. As the harried-looking clerk lifted the final bag for her, its bottom gave way, sending the contents crashing to the floor. “They just don’t make these bags like they used to,” the clerk quipped to the customer. “That was supposed to happen in your driveway!”
Having arrived at the edge of the river, the fisherman soon realized he had forgotten to bring any bait. Just then he happened to see a little snake passing by who had caught a worm. The fisherman snatched up the snake and robbed him of his worm. Feeling sorry for the little snake with no lunch, he snatched him up again and poured a little beer down his throat. Then he went about his fishing. An hour later the fisherman felt a tug at his pant leg. Looking down, he saw the same snake with three worms in his mouth.
That is all this birthday boy has for today. As always be good, do good, play safe and remember age is just a number.
JR
