Older and Better with Shelly

  When you’re a kid, a bed is something you don’t want to be in. Except to sleep late on weekends. As you get older your bed becomes more of a friend. Sometimes better than your real friends. Recently we got a new mattress. The salespeople talked us in to purchasing one that does everything but take out the trash. It came with an electronic base and a remote that helped raise and lower it.   Plus, lots of other features. What they didn’t tell us was the noise it would make during the middle of the night or a light that would come on underneath and wouldn’t turn off. And that was just the beginning. Its favorite trick was to turn on a vibrating massage motor that we couldn’t get off. Who in the hell wants a vibrator when you’re trying to sleep, don’t get nasty now. The other issue was the mattress itself. It sat high. Real high. I could not get in or out of it without the help of a stool. It forced me to sleep on the end so I could find my way down. I did try to m...

Unless you live in a cave or under a rock (in this time of Covid it may be a good idea) you have been hearing or seeing about lots of brush fires in different parts of the country and the world.   Countries are desperate about finding ways to prevent these blazing fires starting from dried brush. The lack of rain has caused the situation to worsen. The recent fires in Colorado are a devastating example Some places have tried to control the burning of loose vegetation to get rid of the fire-causing dry brush.   That can be very dangerous. And in some of the places the brush is too far out of the realm to get anyone close enough to do something about it.   The country of Australia is experimenting with goats to lower wild fire risk. Yes cute little Bambis!! Well it seems that goats will eat anything growing on the ground or in trees that they can reach. They are not picky about their vegetation.   Goats eat and eat. They’re always hungry and eat just about an...

So I just passed another milestone. I thought I was done with them. Grandma, Medicare, retirement and 70. What else was left? Cataracts! Everyone said they were a piece of cake. I’ll take cake any day.  Due to Covid there were very few surgeries during the past year. This was especially true for non life threatening and outpatient type procedures. This did give the surgery center either time to hone their craft or budget cuts forced them to attempt to be much more efficient. The jury is very much deliberating on whether or not it worked.  By the time I got in there for surgery it was like an assembly line. They wheel you in like cattle for the slaughter. I probably could’ve gotten McDonald’s hamburgers 10 times faster. I don’t eat hamburgers anymore but I could of.  The waiting room looked like the betting area at the horse races. People were probably betting whether or not anyone would make it out in one piece.  Let’s talk about the procedure. When I met ...