Friday, June 22, 2012

Living the Golden Years

I do not know what fool started this saying  The Golden Years whoever said it must have been in his twenties, had to be a man, a woman would have been too vain.  We know gray hair and expression line are more prominent, during these years.  We have to make every dollar count, and this is Golden?  You loose things, like your hearing, a hearing aid is two thousand six hundred dollars and some few cents, now this is Golden.  Carrel bought mine, instead of an engagement ring, was this Golden?  I did not have to have but one, had a Tumur in the other ear, I guess this turned out to be Golden!  Missy, our dog got my hearing aid, thought it was a nut and she crack it.  This is something else about  the "The Golden Years" you forget things.  When I went to bed I forgot to put the hearing aid  up.  I had left it  on the night stand.  Missy thought "Oh boy I found a nut."   Unlike my teeth the hearing aid had a three year guarantee.  We took the aid back to the man and he fixed it while we waited, at no cost.  Some people like to please.  Now this is Golden! Your teeth are bound to go, I pay my last payment in July, one year no interest, these are Golden!  Now I have to find someone to redo them, because they never did fit. Tried to tell the dentist they were too big, he would not listen. So I will not use him any more, money going out the door, is this Golden?  But when I smile, if I have them glued in good, they look GOOD, now this Golden.  I would not want any of you readers to think for one minute that I am not happy with My Golden Years,  because I am.  I am reasonably  healthy, have lots of time to work in my garden.  At least I have enough of my mind left to write a blog, that I enjoy.  Thank God for My Golden Years.  I got off the track a little.  I started to write this blog to tell you about our trip to Greenville Miss. each month.   Carrel, my husband, dips snuff.  I know a bad habit, however I may have one or two.   When Washington decided to place a fifty cent sin   tax on all tobacco products, that already had enough sin tax on them to keep the whole nation out of Hell, if money would do it.   The state of opportunity Arkansas, decided we were really sinful so they put another fifty cent on each can of snuff and pack of cigarettes.  Now if you think for one minute, if you get over one hundred four dollars a month and you get cancer from this bad habit the state is going to give you one dollar of you sin tax back to help you pay your bill, you are wrong.   So since Mississippi does not have the extra sin tax, I guess they know it won't do anything but take money out of the poor peoples pockets, we buy snuff there.  While we are there we buy groceries and fill up our truck.  Gas in Lake Village Ar. was three dollars and twenty cents, in Greenville two dollars and ninety nine cents the same gas company.  That alone pays for our trip plus fifty cents less per can of snuff, he bought twenty cans, Ten Dollars less.  Not only that Arkansas has a sals tax  of eleven to fourteen cents depends on where you are, what sin did we commit to have to pay that much.  Mississippi has seven cents.   I love Arkansas but living in the Golden Years  we need our money more than the state of Arkansas, I think it was greed.  If I had not moved to Arkansas I would not have my home and Carrel, he is worth it all . Thank you Lord.  I hope I have not offended anyone with this blog, I will not write many like this, I like my garden blogs, I just hate greed in government.  Thank you for reading my blog pages and watching my garden grow and bloom.  Hope you will grow one of your own.  Happy gardening to you from  Carrel and I, Juanita.

15 comments:

  1. Reminds me of a poem:
    I really like my glasses
    My dentures fit me fine
    My hearing aid is working
    But how I miss my mind!
    ha!

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  2. Now you need an aid for every part of you I guess; isn't that golden. Love you mother--that's golden.

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    1. Thanks Charlotte, your love is golden. I have a lot to be thankfull for six lovely children, that is golden and a wonderfull husband 24k.I hope the next aid don't cost nearly three thousand dollars and I have to pay for a year. I think I got caught up with you last night.

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  3. You live in a democracy Juanita and evryone is entitled to their opinion. What else is a blog for if you can't have the occasional rant about something which is important to you.

    I guess some of the golden things are merely 'fool's gold'!

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  4. Thanks GayorB We fall a lot for fools gold. I won't grip too much.

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  5. I enjoyed your blog straight from the heart, Juanita! and agree with your points of injustice,...Glad you ended on a postive note giving the Lord glory for your life and being a resident of Arkansas! God bless you, dear Facebook friend!
    <3

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    1. I have been beautifully blessed the Lord is my Sheperd. I broke my hip in 2003, the Doctor told me I could never work in my garden again. He was wrong I have planted most of the perennials and roses you see in my garden. These were planted before Carrel and I married. So I will not grip too much. You know when they past this tax they said it was to cover the cost of cancer treatment. I have not met or heard of Ar. helping anyone . Carrels Wife died with cancer it took him years to pay what the ins. did not pay. the people they help do not pay all these taxes.

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  6. they are golden years because now you just say what you want to say.

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  7. No, I watched my Mother, she said what ever came to her mind, when she got down there was no one left around to take care of her but me. No daughters-in-law. there were 3 sons and me. One of my brothers would help if it was if they wanted too. But thank God if it is about the goverment yes I can, now we live in a free nation. We may not be for long. But I will not complain much.

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  8. You have a beautiful garden blog, and so many beautiful flowers.

    A rant here and there is also good for the soul...I like it as you tell it like it is, and I hear you loud and clear..Thanks for visiting, and will follow you now!

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    1. Thank you so much for joining my blog and for your nice comment. I enjoy visiting other blogs just to see what is going on.

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  9. I am a new follower....thanks too for following Sweetwater Style! To Rant or not to rant....no question there! Keep it up! Love your flowers!

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  10. Thanks for joining my blog and thanks for the nice words, guess we have to just get things off our minds sometimes.

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  11. Hi Juanita,
    I enjoyed reading your story in the "About Me" section. I had to laugh about your references to the "golden years". I will be 60 in September, and have memory problems. I grind my teeth at night, and when I started having pain in the right side of my jaw, broke down and spent $700 on a custom fit night guard. The dentist warned me to keep it away from the dog, but the one morning she had access to where I had been sleeping was the morning I put it down, and forgot to put it away. I do not have another $700 to replace it.

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  12. The same thing happened to my hearing aid. The cat got Carrell's hearing aid and I found it in the trash.

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