senior living – Dinky on the Farm

Getting Married

Well friends, at the age of 60 I am going to get married. We have been dating for about five years and we are ready to tie the knot. He is a collector of fine things and I am a collector of fine things. This will be fun putting together all of our treasures. WhenContinue reading “Getting Married”

Code Blue ICU 8

I am still at the ICU with a friend and it has been a rough night. A procedure had to be done that we were not expecting. The procedure went well. We are all tucked in and ready to go to sleep. My friend is resting well… Then all of a sudden…. Code Blue. TheContinue reading “Code Blue ICU 8”

Getting Old Sucks

I am at the hospital with a friend that went into renal failure. Friend is on the mend. Thank God. I work as a QA person at a food manufacturing plant. I am really attentive to procedures and rules. Every place works from standard procedures, especially hospitals. I have seen short cuts taken and haveContinue reading “Getting Old Sucks”

Dairy Queen

This afternoon on my drive home from work I passed by a Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen is a fast food restaurant that sells burgers, fries, onion rings and the like. They also specialize in soft serve icee cream treats. It is cheap and taste pretty good. It reminded me of my father and step father.Continue reading “Dairy Queen”

Gumdrop Cookies

My Grand mother Turney was a spry little thing. She was a great cook and spent much of her day preparing meals for her family. We always looked forward to spending time with her because we knew we would have a great big breakfast and a dinner full of fried catfish, succotash, and blackberry cobbler.Continue reading “Gumdrop Cookies”

Acceptance of Mediocraty

I went to bed early last night and have awakened in the middle of the nights with thoughts racing fluidly in my brain. I thought I would share a few of them. I have over 60 years of life lessons. I am not saying that I know how the world should be or that IContinue reading “Acceptance of Mediocraty”

Petunia

Hello all. I would like to introduce ya’ll to Petunia. She is not my favorite heifer today. Let me give you the full story. I turned 60 on the 27th of December. I was really going to make this a stellar birthday. I made reservations at the best hotel in downtown Fort Worth. I alsoContinue reading “Petunia”

Picking Pecans again…and again

Today is a beautiful day. I spent the morning searching for a cow that supposedly has been roaming the neighborhood. I will share more on that story later. So the jest of it is that I was down in the back 40 of the place here on the four wheeler. I love the four wheeler.Continue reading “Picking Pecans again…and again”

Picking Pecans

Today I went down the lane of my place and decided to pick some pecans. I am blessed to live on a small amount of acreage and the backside of the property is covered in pecan trees. I have been on vacation this week and the cabin fever has set in. I hopped on thatContinue reading “Picking Pecans”

Universal Remote

I have just had a great day. I have spent the day Christmas shopping. I am not really the shopping type of person. I only shop for Christmas in one day at the Wal Mart. If I can not get it at Wal mart it is just not meant to be gotten. I take thatContinue reading “Universal Remote”