I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!
I miss you Sam!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

More Autumn Beauty!





There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.
-  Nathaniel Hawthorne


falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly
John Bailey
Autumn, A Haiku Year.


There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley


Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

One Quiet Moment

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dr. Dale Turner

A New Look at Communication and Gardening!!!


As some of you know I have a 94 year old lady for a dear friend and she does supply me with wicked giggles -- many that I have shared with you before. Well, here is the latest and a great laugh to start the day!!
Gardening for the Hearing Impaired
I was working the garden this weekend and my wife was about to take a shower. I realized that I couldn't find the rake. I yelled up to my wife.
"Where is the rake??"
She couldn't hear me and she shouted back at me.
"What??"
I pointed to my eye and then I pointed to my knee and made a raking motion.
Then my wife wasn't sure and said, "What?"
I repeated the gesture4s.
"Eye - Kneed - The Rake"
My wife replied that she understands and signals back.
She first points to her eye, next she points to her left breast, then she points to her backside and finally to her crotch.  Well, there is no way in hell I could even come close to that one.
Exasperated, I went upstairs and asked her,
"What the hell was that?"
She replies,
"Eye - Left Tit - Behind - the Bush!!

Hope you all have a great day!!



What Can I Say?

What Can I Say?
I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

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