Way To Go, Granny!

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Feel-good story for this break-from-politics blog post.

Video below the fold.

The Big Six-Five!

TODAY!

What a shame that the body has betrayed the mind as I've aged!

At least I still look young enough to wear this shirt, a gift from my homeschool group:

Birthday shirt

Shirt detail

Sunday Humor

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Another of my Facebook finds — and too true:

The Indomitable Human Spirit

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Despite forty-eight years in a nursing home, Paul Smith, who has cerebral palsy, perseveres (hat tip to Farmers Letters):


Learn more about Paul Smith HERE.

Sunday Humor

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How Mr. AOW and I felt for some ten days when we had the flu last month:

What a miserable malady!

To top it all off, one night Mr. AOW rolled out of bed at midnight (not hurt, fire department came right away to get him up off the floor), and a few days later I slipped and fell on the ice. I'm still hobbling around.

Nincompoopery Poll

(Nincompoopery — and worse — abounds! This edition of "Nincompoopery" offers specific links, and readers have the option of taking a poll as to which story they find the most outrageous. Discussion available in the comments section)

Links to read:

ONE: Department of Homeland Security official took bribes in cash and egg rolls

TWO: Link between Enterovirus D68 and illegal immigrant children? See Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S. and Human rhinoviruses and enteroviruses in influenza-like illness in Latin America.

THREE: Chicago pension crisis three times worse than just 10 years ago

FOUR: Teacher's wife phones in bomb threat to get him out of NYC charter-school staff meeting

FIVE: Imam at Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, and other prominent Muslims here in the United States will not condemn ISIS


Please cast your vote in the following poll, which closes on Tuesday:

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Aging In Place? (With Addendum)

This morning, I was out running errands and drove by several newer homes, most of them large and beautiful structures with lovely landscaping. I noticed, however, that almost all of these new homes had several steps to climb at the entrance.

I thought back to the time that Mr. AOW was in the nursing home following a devastating brain hemorrhage at the age of fifty-nine. Needless to say, Mr. AOW was the youngest resident of the nursing home.