But I do know I'm incredibly blessed to have spent the last 20 years with my lovely wife.
And of course, she feels exactly the same about me, right dear?
I said, right?
Sweetheart?
Yes...well, she's probably busy counting her many matrimonial blessings, so we can come back to that later.
How did we celebrate?
By returning to the scene of the crime:
It was a beautiful day, <muy agradable> with just a touch of melancholy, casting back to those times when our love was new and the vigor of youth still throbbed in our veins.
I'm very thankful to have spent these years with the love of my life, and am reminded of God's description of The Virtuous Woman:
"10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
"11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
"12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life...
"...28 Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
"30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."
- Proverbs 31
Such great memories we've shared, and we're busy making more for the next 20 years.
My vote is it's so real it's actually dangerous, not just to the half-wits who have it, but also to those around them.
Case in point:
In 2017 Tylenol posted this on line.
Recently the Trump White House, in conjunction with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, <advised against taking Tylenol during pregnancy> due to an increased risk of autism.
Get that? They didn't say "if you take tylenol while pregnant your baby will have autism".
They advised against taking it while pregnant because some studies have shown a possible link between the two.
So what do you suppose the immediate reaction was among the morons with TDS?
You guessed it: <Pregnant Women Taking Tylenol> went viral.
Stupidity is God's way of thinning the herd, so yeah...go ahead, take the whole bottle, destroy your liver, sayonara, and the collective IQ of the world just ticked up a notch.
But - and this is the kicker - there's another life involved here, an innocent one who depends on the brain dead idiot carrying them in the womb.
And you would think if there was even a chance - no matter how small - that ingesting acetaminophen (or any other substance) might harm their baby, they would be - if not smart enough, then at least caring enough about their unborn child - to NOT take it until AFTER they're born.
But no...this is their "wonder of me!" viral moment in the spotlight when they get to prove to the world:
Trump doesn't tell ME what to do!
Imagine the videos we'd be seeing online if he'd told them not to drop acid and snort cocaine while pregnant.
Lord have mercy on those poor babies.
*TDS - Trump Derangement Syndrome
Had another applicant for this year's "Walk Of Fear", due to open for a one night only engagement on Friday, October 31st.
I don't normally agree to interview applicants in abandoned factories at midnight...
...but he showed some real spirit in his application, and time is running short.
Hoping I'd be able to recognize him from his picture, I crossed all 9 fingers for luck and tallied ho.
The place didn't show any signs of life when I got there, and I was a little on edge when I couldn't find him.
Suddenly he just appeared out nowhere and spooked me.
"Well finally!" I said a little too quickly.
"I was starting to think you were ghosting me."
I could continue but it's all downhill from here with me struggling to fit words like "phantom", "wraith", "visitant" and "specter" into awkward sentences.
Suffice to say he and his pumpkin friends are still in the haunt for the job.
Howzabouts we HGU*, pic captions only, just for fun.
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teeing off for the last time this year, at least on this course. the drought was so bad they're shutting it down to overseed and repair. |
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birdie putt on 2 that morphed into a par |
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ditto on 5 |
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"I think I'll chip in for birdie," sez I to myself on 7, just before I foozled it into a bogey |
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birdie putt on the par 5 8th hole that miraculously became an actual birdie |
Remaining rounds this year will be with featheries on a local par 3 course which I'll play as par 4's.
More to come...but not too much more...
*HGU = hickory golf update
Photographic evidence cats come when called:
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limbering up for the task at hand |
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biiiiig stretch...there's no rush here |
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getting the kinks out...it was so comfortable sleeping on the wall |
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"for cryin' out loud, the things I do for my subordinates. there better be a dish of food waiting for me that I can sniff and ignore." |
a view from Lake Beautiful where Larry resides |
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"These are troubled times" is something that can be - and has been - said all throughout history.
Pick any era you wish and it's guaranteed to have been punctuated by violence, corruption, greed, war.
We're fallen sinners (Romans 3:23); it's what we do.
So it's easy to get discouraged, but that's a mistake.
Instead of giving in to despair and panic, we should take comfort that God is in control of all things:
"10 Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
- Psalms 46:10
later, mcm fans...