I grew up on a home on Humboldt street in a city where I remember playing in the big front yard, I googled the address and found It is gone forever, tore down and a new house built and the big front yard is gone also in it's place is another house.I think I recognize the monkey ball tree we had a tire swing on in their front yard. I also tried to see if the very fine and soft grass that grew in the far corner near the telephone pole was still there. I use to love playing with my toy soldiers in that super soft grass that never seemed to get very tall over in that shady corner. But alas I can't tell in the picture.It is so true that time marches on ( why doesn't it dance instead? dancing is a lot more fun than marching) and waits for no man. Damn I am getting old.

 I am up super early this morn (4 am) as I was having bad dreams again and my dog woke me up, thankfully, when she decided to get up in bed and lay on my butt and between my legs as I lay on my tummy, then I really couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to get up and get me a cup of hot tea in these predawn hours while my world sleeps around me. I have to admit I do like her cuddling to me but it makes it hard to roll over or change positions during the night. I would cuddle to Donna but she always tells me my body is to hot and I need to move over. This must be true as Rose use to say the same thing sometimes but let me cuddle anyway, well sometimes. I find it funny how my body can put off heat and Donna's bigger body doesn't. Maybe my body is burning more energy even resting and thus producing heat? I think so. Well at Charley dog likes my extra heat.

  Remember I take pills now the neurologist  prescribed, they slow some of my brain activity down (random nerve firings)  to help my tremors this is because my mind is so smart and active all the time that my big ole head can't handle it all and my body just has to move to burn some of the brain activity off. Yeah, that's it, just to much to handle, that's the story !!  Ha ha.

 We were talking the other day and Donna told me she can just sit there and not think of anything, nothing, just kind of zone out to speak and just relax. Well I can never do that, not think of anything? No way, I try and I start thinking of not thinking. I try humming like I see people on TV doing yoga and I start humming a tune or pretend to be a air raid siren or my mind starts thinking of me being a Guru on a mountain top with legs crossed just sitting there humming and waiting for someone to crawl up to me and ask "what is the whole point of life" , "Why are we living".  Not think of anything? no way, not me, to much brain activity going on. One day I might actually put it to use for a good cause or invent a perpetual motion machine or a battery that will convert the sun's energy to electricity and store it for use and never wear out or degrade over time, maybe one day I will do just that. Yeah, that's the ticket! That's what I will do alright ,but not just now, you see my coffee pot just stopped gurgling and the sun is starting to peek it's round red head up on the horizon so I need to go get me a cup of fresh brewed coffee. Soon as I get my girly dog out of my lap and get up out of this recliner.Yes my day is off to a good start. Just another day in paradise. 

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