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How I hope? Smart, creative, persistent, loyal Reality? Smart, but dull

When I first met her, she was nine, and I was thirteen. It was at a 4-H club meeting, and she was a redheaded holy terror. Finally out of patience, I told her that if I caught her, I would rip off her arm and beat her with the bloody end of it. That happened to be my last year in 4-H, as the...

I bought my first car, a 1968 Mustang, in 1971, and paid $1350 for it. Since then, I have owned exactly two new vehicles- a1977 Ford pickup and a 1998 Dodge pickup. Everything else we bought used, and drove them until the wheels figuratively fell off- eight to ten years was not unusual. Our...

Either. Growing up, sometimes baked beans was the meal, and not just a side, while string beans were always a side dish. Lima beans were both a side and an ingredient in a variation of bean soup instead of the usual Navy beans, and of course pinto beans in chili.

Cats loose in a car? Never! The only pet that was allowed to travel thusly was our German Shepherd, who would have his butt on the back seat of our Mustang and his paws on the transmission hump so he could look out through the windshield between the front seats.........except for the rainy day...

A few years ago, we did a kitchen remodel with all new cabinets. The only off note was the microwave stand, which was an el cheapo butcher block style- so I built one that matched the style and color of the new ones, plus I made it a rollaround. It has soft close hinges and drawer slides, hard...

Didn't Speedo make tank suits for women? I seem to recall diving competitions where that was the case.

Probably '78 or '79. Along with another couple, we went to Toronto for a long weekend, and stayed at the Don Valley Ramada Inn. But back then, I was six feet tall and weighed 165 pounds soaking wet. Things change though, and now I'm up to about 180, and down to 5' 11".

I wish you were right, but for altogether too many of the latter generations, those attributes that you consider to be strengths are to them faults. They don't want to listen to us because, after all, what could we possibly know about anything? Most of us can't make our phones stand up and do...

Well, my paternal grandmother, in her mid-80s, was caught by one of her sons up on a ladder using a chain saw to trim a tree. She said, according to him, that it was no big deal and she didn't want to bother anyone. The same brother who got his hip replaced stopped in at our parent's house and...

The killdeer does, as it makes it's nest in the dirt, but those eggs are about the same size as those of a robin, and nowhere near those of a duck or goose.

Only one? The Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid, My Friend Flicka, Fury, Sky King, Boston Blackie, Superman, M Squad, Dragnet, the Silent Service, Navy Log- I loved them all.

The only pain med that I have a reaction to is Codeine. I was given that when my blown out discs were first diagnosed, and in the month's time between that and my appointment with the neurosurgeon, I lost 15 pounds, and I only weighed around 170 at the time. It was quite some time before I...

Had my eye exam today, and it went better than expected. Yes, they found cataracts in both eyes; no surprise there, but they are still small enough to not require more than monitoring. My mother suffered from macular degeneration in her latter years, but the doctor said there was no sign of...

Automobiles. Until Henry Ford came along with mass produced cars, they were the exclusive play toys of the rich.

Back in the day, I wore jeans because they were cheap. I paid $4 a pair for Blue Bell Wranglers in 1971 at a local clothing store; this at a time when I was making $3.31 1/2 cents an hour.

Yep, only he's 84 now.

That's what his PT said of my older brother who had a total hip replacement at age 82. He has never been one to take things easy, but is always doing something- like his latest hobby is restoring old farm tractors. He even had to put up a building to house his collection.

When I had my back surgery, the doctor prescribed Demerol, but I said, in so many words, "Noooooooooooo!" So he prescribed Darvocet N100 instead, with the Demerol as a backup if needed. It wasn't, and even the Darvocet was only sparingly used. I remember back in my time on the thoracic/ plastic...

I haven't been to a movie theater since 1980-something, and never fell asleep in one, but given some of the tripe coming out of Hollyweird these days, it might just be possible.