Almost OLD

Saying for the day: There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn

Today I am sixty nine years old.
Yesterday I was sixty eight.
I went to sleep and now I am one year closer to being old.
If I survive another year I will be seventy and I will have reached old.
When I was little old was fifteen. That’s how old my cousin who babysat us was. She was old.
When I was ten the bar of old moved to eighteen because then I would be old enough not to have to go to school. I would be old.
When I was twenty old was forty and was no longer a goal but something to stay away from. Now young was good.
When I reached forty the bar of old had moved to sixty.
When I reached fifty the bar moved again to seventy.
But there it got stuck. I don’t have the strength or the energy to move it again.
So year by year I have moved toward old.
Next year on this day I will be there.
I will be old.
Unless Betty helps me push the bar to ninety.

The Alphabet Photo Challenge is being sponsored by Quilly at Quilly's Pacific Paradise.

U-Uncle Wilho Maki ( My uncle)

U-Uncle Harry Compher ( Betty's Uncle)


U-Uncle Roy Mallmann (Betty's Uncle)



U-United Lutheran (My last Parish)

#### News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal . The State Police want to know why Tommy UK is there and everybody else has disappeared. The officer in charge told his partner that he thought that Tommy UK was somehow involved and perhaps directly to blame. His partner pointed out that Tommy UK was only a kid.
Tommy UK was talking to the two officers when he realized that they too were starting to fade. Before the other two cars arrived they also disappeared . He was alone again. Over and over he asked himself “ Why am I still here?”

At that moment the mother dragon and her two little one’s flew over. They looked sad at seeing no people to cheer for them. Tommy UK thought he saw a tear fall from mother dragon’s eye.

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Today's Link-Red Lobster Blog- Does your waiter watch you?
It was a great day. For the third day in a row my oxygen was almost in the normal range. I worked a little on St. Mark's website but now I need an mp3 file of the sermon. Then Betty and I went grocery shopping. I got a T-bone steak for lunch. In the afternoon we went flower shopping for the garden. This evening they gave me a new dish for a banana split and Betty made one for me. I love banana splits. YThje only thing is I did not get to many of my links today but I will tomorrow. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA