Regrets- Mildred In The Mornng

I thought I ought to throw a Mildred in the mix.  She was feelin’ a little left out lately.  There will be more KRUD-TV comin’ up next week but I don’t want to completely abandon my old characters.

I would appreciate you keeping me in your thoughts and prayers.  I felt pretty bad the first couple of days of the week but started feelin’ a little better yesterday.  My family wanted me to go to the ER but since they have already told me there isn’t much they can do for me I decided against it.  I’m feelin’ much better today so I think I made the right call. (I am writing this on Thursday.)  Sometimes I forget just what a bad shape my heart is in but it has a way of remindin’ me.  I was going to cut my grass today but I have decided it is too hot so I will just load my snake gun in case they overtake the place in the tall grass.

I have been workin’ on comics most of the week since I haven’t felt like doin’ much else.  If I don’t feel well I still try to stay busy because I seem to feel worse if I just sit around.  Before the comments start comin’ and you start naggin’ I do plan to go to the doctor if I start to feel worse again.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  I plan to be at the Attala County Farmers Market in the morning selling jewelry and I am looking forward to it.

Over or Under

Sometimes I get to feelin’ bad about bein’ old and then I think about the alternative.  Actually bein a geezer is not too shabby.  I’m enjoyin’ most of it in spite of the aches and pains.  I reckon I would have taken better care of myself when I was younger if I had known I was going to live this long.

Back in November when I had my last heart attack the doctor told my family that I was in bad shape and might have 3 days, 3 weeks, or as much as 3 months to live.  I have already doubled the three months and I actually feel better now than I did even before the last attack.  For a while I kind of believed him but I feel optimistic enough that I have have started a few long range projects and I intend to finish them.

Improved Memory

I have found as I run in to old friends from several decades ago that as we talk over the things that happened thy really get better each time.  They don’t seem to remember all the details that I remember and I certainly don’t remember all the details that they share with me.  Even with my kids it amazes me at how different our accounts of events are from when they were young.

Creative memory is not really such a bad thing though.  It really spices up the conversation.

Government Growth

I am a firm believer that our Government is way too big, way to incompetent and has too much graft and corruption.  Now having said that I am going to spend the weekend enjoying the freedom I have in a country that is still the best in the history of Civilization, in spite of  the mistakes our government has made.  It is great because it is filled with great people.

Things Change

I used to be a lean mean fightin’ machine and now I’m just a round mound chow hound.  I am not sure if it is a blessing or a curse that our minds don’t always accept that our bodies are broken down.  Even now, and I know that I have extreme physical limitations,  I find that my mind will write checks that my body just can’t cash.

My closet has something in there that keeps shrinkin’ my clothes.  Someone changed my porch so that it is much higher and harder to climb the steps than it used to be.  My wife is obviously smuggling marble slabs in her luggage but so far she has not been able to deliver any of them because everytime I pick up the bags they still weigh the same.  Time has changed too.  It gets late a lot earlier than it used to.  On Father’s day I am now in the running for being the oldest Father in the services.

I’m not sure what happened to the young vibrant man I used to be but I know he is still around.  He gets excited when he sees a go-cart or a dirt bike.  He listens with enthusiasm as someone talks about white water rafting and hopes he will be able to go someday.  He sees all the things that need to be done around Gatorhead and promises that someday he will do them. Sadly though he is a blowhard.  He talks a good game but he doesn’t show up when the heavy lifting starts.

Maybe if he had drawn comics and made jewelry back when he was somewhere besides deep in my imagination he would have been able to stay around a lot longer.

Wise Observations by Mildred

I’m pretty much with Mildred on this.  I think people would be amazed if they really knew some of the things that people get grant money to study.  When it comes to some of the so-called discoveries I am in the “Who Cares?” department.  I don’t want to know that certain things in meat are bad for me…I want to know how to cook it so that it has the best flavor.  I don’t want to know the migrating habits of blackbirds…I just want them to stop roosting over my black car.  I get tired of hearing that the things they said were bad for you and nagged you to give up are now being found to have “health benefits”.

Thinking is a lot like that mudhole.  Sometimes we think someone is really deep when all they have done is muddied the waters so we can’t see what’s there.

I would like for you to leave a comment with some of the wasteful studies that you have heard of.

Low Life Dreams

I had a good long blog written but my computer ate it.  Basically what I had to say is that Wally wants to be a real go getter.  He wants a wife he can take to work and go get her when she gets off.  Men like Wally don’t stay married long but they get married more often to make up for it.   The thing that puzzles me is the number of women out there who have their own worthless Wallys.

Don’t forgot my blog at http://bolumpkin.wordpress.com

Plain Speakin’

Whether I’m listenin’ to someone speak or readin’ somethin’ I really appreciate it when folks put things in the simplest terms possible.  I realize that people have gone to a lot of trouble learnin’ big words and technical terms and want to impress us all with their huge mental capacities but hey…If I don’t understand a word you are sayin’ then there is not much use in me listenin’ or readin’.

I reckon I will try to keep my stuff plain and leave the profound for those with more formal education than me.

Old Age Advisory

I guess I have reached old age.  My kids have started givin’ me advice and sometimes even tellin’ me what to do, especially since my last heart attack. I guess some geezers probably resent it but when mine start advisin’ me…they are usually just repeatin’ things I told them when they were younger.  “Be careful.”  “You need to be especially careful when you are drivin’.”  “If something comes up that you can’t handle, you call me.”

Both my son and my daughter are always just a phone call away if I need them.  We get fussed at when we forget our cell phone and they can’t get in touch with us for a couple of hours.  They always want to know where we are, just like we did when they were growin’ up.

I guess I could be upset about these young whippersnappers tryin’ to tell me what to do.  I’m not though.  I am proud that my children have grown up to be the fine responsible adults that they are, and they still care about their parents.

Don’t forget to check my other website at http://bolumpkin.wordpress.com

Empty Thoughts

All the men who sit around coffee shops, feed stores, and park benches (in good weather) are havin’ a hard time understandin’ why the government can’t fix the financial problems.  Believe me, if you walk into any one of a million places where old men gather to drink coffee and talk in the morning you will hear all sorts of solutions to whatever is wrong with our country.  The scary thing is that  if you listen to them they seem to make a  whole lot more sense than most of our elected officials do.

I have finished the second issue of Cafe Comics and you can get a free download from Redmund Pro’s free ebook store at http://redmundpro.com/book-store/free-books/ .  I hope you will go download a copy and if you want to you can even leave a review.  I will be hopefully handing out the printed copies of the first issue this month.

I have been postin’ regularly  on my other website too at http://bolumpkin.wordpress.com

I got a little behind on posting last week because of some connection problems.  I hope things improve this week.