Saturday July 5, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

Well this will be a short Blog. Today is the anniversary of my grandmother's birthday. We never quite knew when she was born....I mean what year she was born ....she kept changing it, Ha!  1898 seems to ring a bell. That would make her 116. Sounds about right. I can certainly Smile and Relax when I think of all the good times I had at her place.

 

She had a small house with a big fenced-in back yard and a real cement fish pond that my grandpa had made for her. She had flowers and shrubs surrounding the entire backyard. Plus she protected her favorite creature, a squirrel that made his home in a tree close to her back window. She always told me to watch and learn from the squirrel. What she meant by that I don't know unless she thought I was a little "nutz" Ha! Many time I guess I acted a little that way.

 

Grandpa loved to fish and Grandma hated to eat fish but she sure knew how to fry them. She always had a slice of bread with long-horn cheese and an orange for breakfast. I ate a lot pf my meals at her place when I was in grade school. It was closer for me to walk to her house that walk all the way to where I lived in the fire station on Main Street in Spencer, Iowa

 

Oh just wanted to let you know that we experienced a 3 day "brown out" we had no electricity for 2 nights and I can tell you appreciation of things becomes apparent when you don't have them! It cam back on this afternoon about an hour ago.

 

For todays smile....Do you know how to tell if there is an elephant in the bathtub with you????........Answer, ....If you can smell peanuts on his breath!

 

 

See you next Blog

 

Dave

Thursday July 3, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

I am sending this Blog To see if I am publishing the Blogs correctly. I have tried 2 times and failed to get my Relax and Smile Blog to publish correctly.

 

I want you to know that you know you are getting older when you place your screw driver in your back pocket and can't find it when you need it!

 

See you on the next R&S Blog, 

 

Dave

Wednesday July 2, 2014

Relax and Smile

 

I found some fun things about how you can tell if you are getting older that made me laugh. Laughter is one way to Relax. I hope you don't get upset when I share these with you because I found many of them to be very true in my case. (That is what made me Smile at myself.) Here are some of them:

 

         

           You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

          

          You hear your favorite song in an elevator.

 

          You watch the Weather Channel.

 

          Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather     

          than settle, your stomach.

 

          You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time

 

           You take naps.

 

          Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service.

         

          Your back goes out more than you do

 

Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size           There's nothing left to learn the hard way           You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all           the time.           You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't remember being on top of it That is enough of that for now. I hope it brought some Smiles to your face See you in the next Relax and Smile Blog! Dave

 

 

 

 

Tuesday July 1, 2014 
   

Relax and Smile

 

This Blog I have redone 3 times. I haven't posted Blog in a new Blog for a long time and that is why it has taken me so many times! I decided that I would write short Blogs that are memories of my past that are sometimes humorist but have special meaning because I usually have a dream at night that triggers the idea for the Blog.

 

This Blog comes from a dream I had last night after yesterday writing a Blog that I sent about my experience working at Wallace's Farmer and the Farm Progress Show. It takes place in my office in the Wallace's Farmer building in Des Moines where I worked. Every noon there were four of us that would play cribbage during the noon meal time. Steve Keppy, Dick Kuhn, Jerry Luke and myself played cribbage as we usually ate hamburgers we got from across the street at a place called "Big John's" this noon hour time I remembered as I thought about playing cards and the fun we had.

 

That's it folks for this Blog.....Just a short Blog about one of the events I experienced when working for Wallace's Farmer (Actually Farm Progress Publications) was the corporate company name made up of four state farm magazines at that time. See you next time in my next short Memory Blog.

 

Dave