smiling

Good morning to ya my reader! I'm glad your here to follow my rambling thoughts. Smiling? Yes I am, its a beautiful sunshiny morning at about 50 degrees going to the mid 70's and its Friday and my woman is taking off work early today just because she can, and just now the coffee pot just stopped gurgling and is ready for me to get my first cup from it. I feel like I am on top of the world right now, especially looking out my window upstairs in my man cave over the garage. The air smells fresh and my lawn looks like a guy out of the fifty's with a flat top hair cut and my azaleas & some assorted flowers are blooming. Of course my mood is subject to change darn it, even thou I want it to stay like this. Someone will probably say or do something to screw it up , you know how that goes, sometimes its me that does it! Ha ha.
 Well I spent some of my life yesterday playing guitar by myself and putting words on paper to construct a song , most times my mind is like a scrabble board and the words don't connect right or don't make sense. They are there but I just have a hard time dragging them out and putting them together to convey my thoughts into music  to maybe get a smile or a tear out of someone that might take the time to listen to me. Well I got a song  finally that I felt was good enough to let my best friend hear. I played it last night for her. Yaa, she liked it, I mean she really liked it! She had a bad day that day and was bothered by a lot of things and even cried telling me about some of what was bothering her, So I waited till after we talked and ate supper and she calmed down to a more normal state for her then I got out my guitar and played for her. She smiled. That's all I needed to see, her smile. Then when I was through she laughed and smiled and starting talking about the song .It was worth all the time and effort just to see her smile (her laughing and talking about the song was a bonus which I enjoyed immensely) especially after a day she had where ones mind goes to places and thinks things you don't want to but it does it anyway, you know about that too don't you?
 So I still feel good about my success on a new song and can't help but wonder if I might have the opportunity to play it for someone else and they enjoy it also. I like that. I find that is one of my greatest pleasures in life is to make someone smile or feel emotions from my feeble attempts at a song or writing this blog. It don't happen very often as I am just a normal guy and not blessed or gifted like people who hit the big time and make it look so easy. To me it is very hard to come by but I like it when I can do it to some degree.
 Aw my coffee tastes good, I wish you were here having a cup of it with me. It is 8oclock brand original flavor with which I make a pot using half decaf and half regular. Too much caffeine wires me.  I hear dogs barking in the distance through my open window and a truck's backup alarm going off. Life is going on as it always does. I wonder what it was like 200 years ago to wake up top a new day like today and also wonder what it will be like 200yrs from today. I wonder.
 I want to leave you with a smile and happy thought so here is a little story to hopefully achieve that.

 A man  is terribly overweight, so his doctor puts him on a diet.
"I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks," the doctor ordered. "The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least five pounds."
When the man  returns, he's lost nearly 20 pounds.
"Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said. "Did you follow my instructions?"
The man nods, "I'll tell you, though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day."
"From hunger, you mean?" the doc questioned.
"No, from skipping."


     Till next time, Happy trails to you!