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 Happy Birthday Far Guy!   You have had a tough year but you have survived to celebrate another birthday here with me!  I am thankful for the Doctors and Nurses that helped you get through the year. 

AND Sadie she helped you too!

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Older

 Happy Birthday Far Guy!  It is one of those milestone birthdays!  I am thrilled that he had another birthday, in 2024 he had two very close calls with Influenza A, Pneumonia and Sepsis.  So this is a bonus year!  

We still live a very hermit like lifestyle...staying away from crowds and people who wear perfume and aftershave.

 

Happy Birthday! 

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Happy Birthday!

 Far Guy is another year older today. 

Happy Birthday! 

He hasn't changed much in the past year but Sadie sure has!  They are good friends.

Last years birthday photo.

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72

 Far Guy turns 72 today!  ( Yeah he made it another year)  Happy Birthday!  He was almost a Valentine baby! 

Far Guy and Sadie...who he started calling Farts...just to irritate someone.  He and I laugh when she comes to her new name. 

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Happy Birthday Handsome!

 Far Guy is older today!  

A photo from one of the black sand beaches on the Big Island.

Happy Birthday handsome! 

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Birthday Report

Far Guy saw a commercial for Red Lobster sometime last week and decided that he would like to go there for his birthday.  Well the closest one is 90 some miles away..the next closest one is 137 miles away...choosing that one meant that we could stop by our youngest daughters and her family could join us and celebrate too!

Jen and her Dad

Andy and Adam

Jonas 

Remnants of my supper

If you are going to Red Lobster you should have lobster! 

It was a great birthday!  He says "Thanks for all the birthday wishes!" 

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A birthday

I asked the birthday boy some questions.

How do you feel?   old
Do you feel older today than yesterday?  yes
What do you attribute your longevity to?  Clean living, coffee and Fritos
What time of day were you born?  Don't remember  3 AM is a guess 5:05 AM is the correct time
How much did you weigh? No guess  He weighed 6 pounds 8 ounces

Far Guy in 1952 when he was 2 years old.  He looks pretty innocent in this photo...almost angelic in fact.  It was about this time that he began to explore his surroundings...and nearly drove his Mother crazy.

I am trying to wrap  my head around the fact that my husband turns 70 today.  Someone told me that 70 is the new 50...  ha that remains to be seen.

I stalked him with my camera yesterday.  Happy Birthday old guy!
His quote for the day "I survived the 60's and my 60's."
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Happy Birthday!

Far Guy is older today.

This is a school photo from 1963.

2019

This is a photo I took in Hawaii. He sat down and was caught checking his phone for a score of a Hockey game.

Far Guy is feeling better and has finished his third round of antibiotics, he is building up his number of steps a day.  He has requested steak for his birthday supper….probably with mushrooms…and for dessert raspberries.

Happy Birthday to the love of my life!

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2 to 68

Just like that!

Far Guy was just little back in 1952, he was two years old…I can see both Savannah and Mikey in that expression.

A few weeks ago we did not know if Far Guy would make it to his 68th birthday…but he did and I took some photos to mark the day.

My fellas

Happy 68th birthday…glad you made it!

Happy Medicare Birthday!

Someone is 65 today and should have his Medicare Card but he doesn’t.  Whilst checking on our Health Insurance site yesterday we discovered he has been dropped from their enrollment…but I am still there…go figure.   The last couple of weeks Far Guy has been walking around mumbling  “This country is just moments from imploding upon itself.” I am beginning to believe him.  I swear Tuesday heads will roll…and he better not get sick and require Health Care whilst he is in this no mans land of no Medicare and no insurance.   All the automatic refills for his medications have been discontinued also.  How long do you think that will take to get straightened out???

I told him to try to relax and have a good weekend.  He is doing his best…but those Type A’s MUST worry.  What a freaking mess.   What was supposed to be all automatic sure is a pain in the butt.

Well anyways..he is older.  We may go out for supper to celebrate his birthday.

Far Guy and his big sister in November of 2014.  The smallest inset photo was taken in the summer of 1950.

Happy Birthday!

Snow Report

We still have snow, it hasn’t melted yet.  Only in my dreams.  I dreamt we bought a two person speedboat just a tiny little thing and we were someplace where the water was blue and pissy warm…so obviously it was not Minnesnowda!

The snow stick is holding steady at 16 inches of snow cover. ( Last year at this time we had 20 inches at the snow stick.)  Those tracks appear every time it snows.  I think it is a squirrel that finds the distance too great for him to leap from one tree to the next so he has to make a run for it.

Then there is this little creature that burrows just under the newly fallen snow.

Patterns like this show up in the driveway.  Chance is very interested.  He caught a mouse once and enjoyed the hunt.

Out on the prairie there is a sea of snow.  If you look at the snow long enough you can imagine waves of snow.  Those are the Smoky Hills looking smoky in the distance.

You can find snow banks to admire. You don’t have to look too hard either.

Far Guy says “Thanks for all the birthday wishes!”  We watched the USA vs Russia Hockey Game,  we went out for breakfast with my parents and then we ran some errands in town, came home and he took a nap.  I fixed steak and vegetables for supper and he fried some potatoes.  Other than the Hockey game it was a quiet day…except for the phone ringing with birthday wishes!

Chance: Happy Birthday Far Guy!

I needed some help with a special birthday greeting for Far Guy…he is older today.  I think we are almost the same age now.

Chance

Jennifer created this wonderful birthday wish for our Dad!  Isn’t it just perfect…just like me!

The old guy is getting older

It is someone’s birthday..born on a cold snowy February day..he just missed  being a valentine’s baby.

He is a special guy.  His friends must think so too.

A few weeks ago I was sworn to secrecy.  The birthday package arrived and was opened.

Some days “she” is at the Coca-Cola Diner.

Some days “she” is at the Drive –In Theater.

One day I was upstairs just looking around the train set..and turned some of the cars around that were facing backwards..Far Guy noticed right away that something was amuck.  Station Wagons always face backwards at the Drive-In movie theater..at least that is the rule we follow upstairs.

I think Floyd and Frank have outdone themselves in the gift giving department.  They must have many good memories of that old 1959 Desoto Explorer Station Wagon.  Just so you know there were only 704 of them made.  If you got to ride in one..or drive one you were pretty lucky.

This car was full of rice the day we got married.  I think we vacuumed up rice for two years.  She was Willow Green.  She had push button drive and a roof rack.  She could hold nine passengers comfortably.  She had one seat that faced the rear.  She had a 1948 Desoto hood ornament courtesy of Far Guys Dad..we still have that hood ornament upstairs.

I was with the day that the cop said she was doing 92 mph..we were talking and not paying much attention to the speed limit..the Judge took one look at the car and said “Do you suppose it was doing 70?” 

I was there the day she needed a new transmission and it took a whole months paycheck to get her fixed.

I was there the day her oil light went on..and Far Guy was so bugged..I fixed it for him.  I wadded up a piece of my bubble gum and covered up the light so he wouldn’t feel so bad.

I don’t remember the day she was sold..but I am sure Far Guy remembers it well.

Lots of good memories are tied to that car.

The die cast model is a wonderful gift and addition to the train layout upstairs!  Far Guy has good friends! 

Happy Birthday Far Guy:)

Wistful Wednesday: Birthday!

Yes-sir-ee someone is getting older today.  Someone who missed being a valentine gift by only a few hours.

Someone who is older than me..someone who might be old enough to get a Social Security check sometime soon.

Someone with beautiful eyes and eyelashes that all the girls envy.  Someone with a wonderful smile.  Someone who was cuter than a bugs ear in his bow tie and suspender pants back in 1952.  Look at that hair..so blond without even a hint of the curls to come..or the baldness either.

Someone who said last night “how did we get so old..so fast?”:)

Sixty Years Ago

On this date in1950 a little girl who was almost five years old and her father went shopping downtown in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. It was a special day, the little girl had just become a big sister. She helped her father pick out a lovely gift for her mother. They took the gift to the hospital where she met her little brother. The little girl remembered the story or it would have been lost forever.

Far Guy will forever be the little brother, and his sister forever the big sister.

The pearls are now in the possession of our eldest daughter, Trica. She is "the keeper of the pearls." The pearls that are as old as her father. She has been instructed to share them with her sister..

Jen wearing the pearls, we laughed the day I took this photo..they look so glamorous with a T shirt..but she has the right coloring to look fantastic in these pearls.  

Trica is also to share them with her daughters and her nephews brides. Someday they will be handed down..perhaps after a wedding or a birth.


Happy Birthday Far Guy! :)

Happy Birthday Far Guy!

Today is Far Guys 59th birthday! I have celebrated 42 of his birthdays with him. His Mother used to always cook his favorite meal for him which was usually shrimp and a chocolate cake to celebrate his special day. Today he would like some German noodles, so we will have lunch at a German Resturant that makes fabulous noodles.

On getting older... Far Guy often says " Any day you can wake up at home and sit up and feed yourself..that's a good day.!" AND " We are all in this together and no one is getting out alive." :) Photo: Far Guy when he was two years old.