WANTED: WATERMELON CAKE FOR BIRTHDAY

We're celebrating the WATERMELON today and Betty Crocker has a recipe for a WATERMELON CAKE (GET RECIPE HERE) Please make a copy of it and put a note on your calendar to make it for my birthday next year....if I'm still able to sit up and eat.

YES! It really hurts!!

OUCH! Don't touch me, Babe! What I hoped would be a "fashionable tan" turned into a fiery burn overnight.

Face and arms are burning like fire!  Why I didn't think to wear my famous cowboy hat is beyond me.  It would have saved me a lot of pain.  I'll be wearing it the rest of the summer because I don't need any more sunburn!!
 

ON THE SHORES OF NESHONIC

A HOPLESS MESS

I have spent most of the morning, so far, trying to fix yet another mess I made out of this computer.

You don't know what a virus is until you turn me loose on your computer.  I have decided that I am the most dangerous computer virus there is.  I have the ability to completely destroy your machine in less than 5 minutes.

 

Hey!  What can I say?  We all have to be good at something.

I slept in until 5:00 A.M.

Now that it gets lighter later, I'm staying up later (9:00 PM last night) and getting up later.  These hours are more like the other humans!

WILL THERE BE A SUMMER?

Do you suppose we'll ever see another day like this in Wisconsin?

SLEEPER

I didn't wake up until 5:00 this morning.  I can't remember when I last slept that late but it's been a long, long time!

Nothing can bring back the memories like a song.

I ran across this video, yesterday, and it took me back to Rapid City in the early 60's.  Ron and Penny and Duane and Gary are the only ones left, I guess, that can vouch for me when I say that, back in those days, my birthday was a major production.

With the cold war at its peak, the missile silo's were being built, on the prairie, around the city.  The construction workers made big bucks and business was booming.  There were two big night clubs in town.  The Esquire and The Canyon Lake Club (both gone now). Both clubs featured live shows with lounge acts from the Las Vegas Strip.

I don't remember which birthday it was but the party was at the Canyon Lake Club, that year, and THE PLATTERS  were appearing.  When the cake came out they can down from the stage and sang "Happy Birthday" to me.

I hadn't thought about that in years but those were the days!

 

AT LAST! IT'S OVER!

Barring some unforseen problems, no more visits to the clinic again until September.
Today was a check of all the plumbing and it's as good as new.  They've looked me over from head to toe and, except for the kidneys, I'm fit as a fiddle.

I, therefore, am living proof that good clean living has absolutely nothing to do with improving your health.

I HEAR YOU

I just got an email that says I should get my hearing checked on a regular basis because there is a link between kidney disease and hearing loss.

Let me set your mind at ease.  I hear more than I really care to.  If you're talking to me and I don't respond it's not that I don't hear you.  It's that I'm ignoring you.  (And, I can hear Aunt Wilda saying, "He sounds just like his Mother.")

detFeb 8, 2012 07:02 AM
My hearing is certainly poor, but like you, I will not get hearing aids because there just isn't that much I care to listen to.

WHAT SHALL I DO?

My Google calendar says I have "no events scheduled today".  That's just the way I like it.  I've had just about all the events I need for this lifetime.

SHOPPING SPREE

What a fun morning!  RITA AND ROGER are fun to shop with because they know how to shop.  Clear the decks, back off and watch them fill the cart!  The most fun was when we got to Festival.  Rita ran into AARON ROGERS and he let her squeeze his melons.

PERFECT WEATHER

I walked over to Kwik Trip (I was out of doughnuts) and it's a perfect day for January.  Bright sunshine and temperatures above freezing.

The only complaint I have is that there are pools of water in all the low spots on the sidewalks.  That means lots of chances for me to fall down.  Don't think I'll go out too early.

TODAY IS SURE TO BE THE HIGH POINT OF THE WEEK

I'm going to lunch with Rita, Roger, Carl and Kathy.

SPEAKING OF LUNCH....
The kids were lined up for lunch at a Catholic grade school.  At one end of the cafeteria there was a pile of apples.  Sister put a sign next to the apples.  TAKE ONE ONLY.  GOD IS WATCHING.  At the other end of the room, near the exit, there was a large tray of chocolate chip cookies on a table.  One of the young students quickly scribbled a sign and put it next to the cookies.  TAKE AS MANY AS YOU WANT.  GOD IS WATCHING THE APPLES.

12:00 AM: THE FIREWORKS STARTED ON GRANDAD BLUFF

Thunder jumped up on the bed and started poking me on the nose.  That's how our New Year began.

A LIFE OF LEISURE

I won't forget how this year ended.  It got to be noon and I was still running around in my L.L. Bean pajamas.  I thought, "why bother to get dressed now?"  So, I sat down, and watched an afternoon of movies.  I can't remember ever doing that before except when I was sick.

IT'S GONNA BE A WILD NIGHT AROUND HERE!

I've got three movies to watch and a big pot of home made chicken soup bubbling in the crock pot.

Meanwhile, Rita, Roger, Carl and Kathy are going play cards into the New Year and, just in case they sip one card too many, Carl and Katy are going to sleep over in the spare bedroom.

Don't tell me we don't know how to celebrate the new year!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTIONS

I'm trying to figure out how to set the timer on this new camera.

Oops!  Guess that must be the button.

WHAT A WAY TO START THE DAY

IS IT THAT TIME AGAIN??

The dreaded letter was in the mailbox this morning.  It said I should call the clinic and make an appointment for an exam before my "procedure" in March.  I didn't even know I was going to have a "procedure" in March.

By the way, why do they call it a "procedure"?  Why don't they just tell it like it is.  "Call and make an appointment so you can come in and let us do something horrible to you."

Anyway, I looked further down to the bottom of the page and discovered that, somehow, two years has slipped by, without me noticing it, and it's COLONOSCOPY TIME AGAIN.

After two years, I was hoping they would forget about it but they, apparently, have a very good record keeping system.

Oh well, as Scarlett used to say, "I'll think about that tomorrow."