A New Year

It's a new year, and all I can say is BOY! ...it is cold outside, and it will be colder tonight! BRrrrr!

So far with the new year the world has not ended, and nobody fell off the face of the earth so the year is going really good at the moment.

Daniel and I struck out down at the '80 for deer,  having the area flooded did not help matters.  We did see a nice flock of Turkeys which we may try hunting those in the spring.

We had a nice visit with all the nieces and nephews while down there.  Everybody has grown-up since I last saw them.

Is it just my brain or does this happen to everybody?

That is, when the last time you see someone, that is the picture you have of them left in your brain memory. So time passes and the next time you see them they look different and your brain is reset to the new picture of them.   So what happens if you do not see them for a few years, and your brain is locked into a picture of them way back when they were little.  Like still riding a tricycle, or just still being in middle school?  Now all of a sudden they are going to college, driving and helping me fertilize my farm on Farmville!  There are a lot of pictures to reset inside my brain. Photographs do not really work in reseting the brain photo in you brain memory.  Does anyone else have that problem?

I guess it is part of the process of being old. I guess turning things around and looking through the eyes of my younger nieces and nephews they probably have a last picture of me of some old looking uncle.  And then when they see me again years later the picture is probably the same old picture, but just a newer older version of the old picture, which for them is no big deal since all old people look alike.

This brings me to the other topic.  It is amazing on how people will come up to me and say, "you look just like your dad"  .....Great!.....I always wanted to look like I am almost 74 years old at my age!  Who am I going to look like when I make it to 74?  My Great Great Grandfather?  I know it is supposed to be a compliment, but think about it!

Our mailman Steve, who is a friend of ours told us this story.  Steve waved at Daniel before Christmas as Daniel was driving to school.  Steve said Daniel waved just like his dad while driving.  Now Daniel is trying to picture himself with a bald head in the not so near future.

I am guilty of saying the same phrase.  At thanksgiving time I told Megan that she looked just like her mom.  Boy, with what I know now, if I was Megan once I heard that statement I would have grabbed the keys to the car and started driving around town.  If I look like mom, I might as well drive like mom.

Stephen says my time is up on the computer, I wonder where he got that from?  I will be checking for his bald spot.

Have a great year everyone and try not to get too old too fast

Posted by Randy