THE BLOGGER AND THE VOICE FROM THE KITCHEN, 12 MONTHS AGO

WHO IS THAT GUY?
No wonder Sharon wouldn't let him wok her dog.  Hhmmm, maybe that should be "walk"
This was 12 months ago in Utah.  The family reunion.  I still weight the same but my face is fuller and my faithful spouse, Isabel never gets to show her age...because she is ageless.
It is always enjoyable to go through pictures of the past.  Most times they show happy, younger faces, and sometimes, as above, they show older, more "experienced" miens.  I stumbled upon this as I was going through some older emails that I received from Auntie Em and I thought I would show you one of the great mysteries in life...How such a beautiful creature like the one at my left can love and marry such an ugly one.  You and I see it every day.  I, when I look in the mirror.  You, when you go out in public.  MJT Dion ("Mina", to some, grandma to others) used to often say, "The world is a kind place.  If you look around you can always see someone who is worse off than you."  She used to spend a lot of time doing just that.  When she saw one, she would point it out to everyone around her at the moment.

JUST A TAD BETTER, BUT LOOK AT HER!

Well, I just thought that I would point that out.  I will now leave you with an up-to-date photo taken a mere three weeks ago. You won't believe it but the guy in the middle is older than I am, 5 years older.  Of course he doesn't have two sweet children and a mortgage!

WEMEN NEVER, EVER LEARN -- [IS THAT WE MEN?]

I got this for my birthday.  Very discreet.  No date.  No happy Birthday Song buried in a 21st century voice chip.  Just the fact that it came from three women makes it special.  The other thing that makes it special is that of the three paper birthday cards that I have received this year, all three were humorous ones.  I guess that the older you get the funnier you look makes you a target of the younger, tickle the bottom of your feet crowd.  So, I went to check it out, you know, how funny I look?  Yeah, I actually broke my resolution to never look in the mirror again.  Yeah, I did make a resolution like that.  My body is just so much of a wrinkled mess that I can't stand the sight of it.  So, I stay away from anything that has a chance to reflect my image back at me.  Well, the third card did it.  I went to the mirror to see what, if anything might have improved over the last few months.  EEEeekkk!  Nope, nothing.  Thank you ladies for the wonderful reminder.

Not only that.  These are ladies with whom we have been studying the Bible for at least 3 years.  So they know that I can understand Bible jokes.  This one is really cute.  It shows that after The Fall, men didn't get any smarter.  But then again, neither did women.  But I forgive them.  After all, they hadn't got used to the laws of nature yet.  You now what I mean, "Be careful of what you ask for."  Then there's the other one that says, "When in doubt, shut up."  Or, "wait until the funeral then you'll have to say only nice things."  You get the drift, right?

All laughing and joking aside, the ladies did paper the naughtiness over with a Jackson and a Hamilton.  Which, when you think of it shows that Mammon does have a little sway over us all.  So I am exceedingly grateful to my friends for showing me such free flowing generosity.  I can't figure out what I did to deserve it, but then again, I guess that's what makes gifts so special.  You get them without deserving them.  Thank you, God, and thank you, ladies.