CONSPIRACY THEORY

What I am about to suggest can not be proven yet or maybe ever.  Today while I was at the end of my driveway shoveling a  giant snow burm ( wide and riddled with glacier chips-you get the picture )  thinking many different thoughts, the following came to mind:

When the County Plows the residential streets, why do they block all of the driveways with huge piles of snow?

When I complained (not just for me but for the greater good of all people(mostly old people), I was told that the City/County can not afford the type of blades that they can life up and down giving them the ability to not block us in.  (that of course is total BS).  I remember a few years back when the City spent a million dollars to shuffle desks/offices/people around in City Hall.  Could we not tap into that fund to buy new trucks???

Onto my theory,   please give this some thought.   Real Estate Sales are down.  Property Values are way down.  Now here comes winter.  We have lots of snow and we are plowed in over and over again.  Young  people can get out there and shovel. It is hard for them also when it so hard, icy and frozen tight.  Think of the elderly and aging.  If they can not afford to hire it out (and get ripped off) what can they do.   They may not have family or they may not want to burden their family.  They are stuck.  They may decide to sell right now before they age further and feel that they would not survive many more of these bad winters.  Ok, they now decide to sell  (at a loss most likely) and there we go the Spokane Real Estate thus the City/County will prosper. Builders will be remodeling the sold homes, furniture stores will be putting in new furniture  and on and on it goes.  Things will be looking  up for old Spokane.  All done by the City/County for the City/County.

Remember these are the same people who booted Retailers out of the old River Park Square so that it would look like the mall was vacant enough to be eligible for federal funds to rebuild a bigger better more prosperous mall?????? Oh yeah....!!!! (allegedly) 

Laugh as you may but I am just saying............  That is my theory and I am sticking to it. 
This all began when I took my dog Jaz out to his designated potty place.  As I  crossed my front yard.  I looked out to the end of my driveway and saw my garbage cans.  I need to go get them, I thought ,since the g. truck came earlier.  THEN  I SAW THE GIANT BURM.   I was ticked off.  Yesterday I spent almost a long hard hour shoveling my driveway.  Then more time shoveling my front walk.  NOW THE BURM?.  How did I not hear that truck.  Not that it matters,  was I really going to run out there yelling STOP, STOP.  I think not,  however,  many times I have pictured myself doing so.   What can I say, I can be very silly. 

So for today I will take solice in the JOY that I felt as I lited that last shovel full of snow.  I refuse to even let the dred of the next burm  enter my thoughts.

caio

"Practice Interview"

Ok, I was not going to be back so soon but after I put the finishing touches on my first post I thought I would ask my Irish Setter a few questions just to get his take on the aging process.  He is waiting for his dinner so this will be short.  Actually, his answers were very short also.  In fact his answer to each question was, a tail wag,  accompanied by a couple of barks and running back and forth to his food dish.  But he did say that his greatest joy in life is running with me behind him.  So there it is more Joy for me.

until next time. Caio

WHAT EXACTLY IS A SENIOR CITIZEN?

Hello,  my name is Kerry Justice.  I am a Senior Citizen.  I am wondering what exactly that is.  Does it mean that I am special, dangerous, wild and crazy?   I will be on an investigative search for the answer to this question and many other questions.  I will research by inapproprietly asking personal questions of some of the people that I meet in my daily travels.  I will search the internet.  I will ask friends and enemies(kidding about the enemies)..... 

Some of the questions I will ask are:

(1)  As you have aged,  what is your greatest joy?  What is your greatest fear?
(2)  What does it mean for you to be a "Senior Citizen?
(3)  Do you think we should get a discount at the Grocery Store?
(4)  Shouldn't the Senior Discount be much,much  bigger?
(5)  As you have aged what in life keeps you young in heart and soul?
(6)  What is the one thing that you would go back and change if you could?
(7)  Who do you love?
(8)  What is your Dream now and What was your Dream in youth?

I myself have Joy in my life.  Joy comes to me in the form of my loving and caring children, their spouses (whom I think of as my children also) .  I am filled with Joy when I think of, talk to and spend time with  my wonderful, extraordinary and special six grandchildren , their dogs and cats and my joyful Irish Setter. I also receive Joy from my brother, his wife (my close friend) their son and his son.  Joy also comes to me in the memories of my beloved Mother and Father. And last but not least Joy is given freely to me by my wonderful friends.

With all of the Joy in my life one would say that I must be greedy to search for more.  However, greedy as it may be,,I wish for more, more joy, more smiles, more more laughs, conversations, time and love, more fun , for others and for myself. 

Please tell me that Old Age is the new Middle Age....  I am looking for Joy but I believe that it will come in moments and not hours, days or weeks.   As I travel on this Journey of Enlightenment I will pass it on in this blog.  It may help someone, or illicit a smile or laugh.  Humor is a gift and I want lots and lots of it.  Oh I believe I just found something else I wish for.  Will  I ever stop wishing?  Hopefully not.

I will sign off for now.  Remember Old is Gold.