Thursday

I got Sean off to camp this morning before the morning counsel. I dropped by and visited with Mom & Dad for a great cup of coffee and even got to spend some time with Andrew & Cassie. After Dad & Andrew headed off for some fishing, I was able to spend some really enjoyable time with Mom & Cassie.

I brought home my highchair from Mom's - this is the highchair that I got for Christmas when I was three months old. I'll have it here now when the little ones are here to visit.

I got a bit ambitious and have been painting the upstairs bathroom. I'm doing it in a yellow to coordinate with the blue checked shower curtain. I also am going to paint the woodworks and cabinet in contrasting colors. [photo to come].

I was walking around the yard this evening with Carla when I came across this day lilly with a triple blossom. The funny thing is that I never purchased any daylilly bulbs. This one was in a bunch of transplanted ones from our old house and they've never had more than a single blossom at a time before. So it was a wonderful surprise.

I got this in an email today from Aunt Barbara, and thought it worthy of passing along:

George Carlin's Views on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get oldis when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. "How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . you become 21.Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92."

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!