Thursday, February 23, 2006
Fun, Food, And Friendship!
Almost three days of fun, food, and friendship. It started with Tuesday afternoon with these beautiful roses.
They arrived with Dar and Michael who are visiting in Michigan from Long Island. They had scheduled their visit to coincide with my 71st birthday. Cindy joined us Tuesday afternoon to meet Michael and after a roast beef dinner prepared by my ever lovin’ we practiced our pinochle again. Dar and I against Michael and Jay. Cindy was acting as advisor to the new guys. It was kind of a pre-birthday get together.
The next morning my live in chef served us that wonderful omelet again with bagels the visitors brought with them from New York. Dar and Michael took us to ‘Famous Dave’s’ for my birthday dinner that afternoon and I pigged out on ribs, Drunken Apples, corn muffins, and potato salad. I swear I could have used a sky hook to lift me off my chair at the end of the meal. Then it was back home where Dar, Michael, and I played three handed pinochle and Jay rested after his bout with an excellent bread pudding. It was after 2 am before we got to bed.
This morning it was pancakes and bacon for breakfast. For our lunch it was big thick burgers with grilled onions, portabella mushrooms, bacon, cheese, and bar-b-cue sauce. Our dessert was the pound cake and strawberry sandwiches again. We spent the afternoon reminiscing and out visitors left a little while ago for the home here in Michigan for another couple of days before returning to New York state.
Update; This was my birthday from the Silver Fox
Hey I’m 71 but I can still appreciate a Hottie when I see one!!!!
Subject: Getting Old
This was an E mail I received yesterday from dear friend, Pamela---I wanted to share it with all of you so here you are! Thanks Pam
A very elderly gentleman, (mid nineties) very well
dressed, hair well groomed, great looking suit, flower
in his lapel smelling slightly of a good after shave,
presenting a well looked-after image, walks into an
upscale cocktail lounge.
Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady, (mid
eighties).
The gentleman walks over, sits alongside of her,
orders a drink, takes a sip, turns to her and says,
“So tell me, do I come here often?”
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An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for
a number of years. He went to the doctor and the
doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of
hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the
doctor and the doctor said,
"Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really
pleased that you can hear again." The gentleman
replied,
"Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around
and listen to their conversations.
I've changed my will three times!"
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Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement center were
sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the
other and says:
“Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches
and pains. I know you’re about my age. How do you
feel?”
Slim says, “I feel just like a new-born baby.”
“Really!? Like a new-born baby!?”
“Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet my
pants.
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An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's
house, and after eating, the wives left the table and
went into the kitchen. The two gentlemen were talking,
and one said, "Last night we went out to a new
restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend
it very highly.
The other man said, "What is the name of the
restaurant?"
The first man thought and thought and finally said,
"What is the name of that flower you give to someone
you love? You know… the one that's red and has
thorns."
"Do you mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's the one," replied the man.
He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled,
"Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to
last night?
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Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients
being discharged.
However, while working as a student nurse, I found one
elderly gentleman--already dressed and sitting on the
bed with a suitcase at his feet who insisted he didn’t
need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly
let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down I
asked him if his wife was meeting him. “I don’t know,
“ he said.
“She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of
her hospital gown.”