Ole Joe Clark
Absent Comrade
Good Sabbath Morning everybody!!
It's kinda quite here this morning, except for the neighbor's dogs barking, howling, and creating a generally disturbing racket. ("racket", Southern for noise). I vote for an 8 foot privacy fence.
It's been a busy week around here, and I feel it. The joints are speaking loudly, and if you listen carefully, you can probably hear them.
It all started Thursday with grocery buying, then the bi-weekly jam at 6 pm, with special guests. Then Friday night, our close friends came over for a meal and card games. We, the guys, actually won a game of canasta for a change after supper. Saturday was equally busy, with a friend coming over and picking up the treadmill that we didn't use, a noon range trip with another friend. I returned home just before dark and listened to the rest of the football game.
By the time we went to bed this ole guy was exhausted, worn out, and tired. I have about decided that I am too old for days and weeks like that.
But, I am thankful that I was able to do all those things, lots of folks aren't able to get out and shoot, play music, or just enjoy good company. Our card playing friends are long time, close friends that we have been thick with for over 40 years. We can call on them when we need prayer, fellowship, just to talk, trade guns, (and trade back), and spend time together. Their grown children still call us Uncle and Aunt (to me, that's a special blessing) and they are our Brother and Sister in Christ. I treasure their friendship, and I hope that during this Special Season you have special friends and family that you can call on and/or celebrate the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season with. Just because Thanksgiving is past doesn't mean giving thanks is over for the year. It's a never ending celebration. So call a shut in, thank a Veteran, a policeman, and most of all, thank God for another day, and all his blessings.
Enough!!!
Have a blessed Sabbath,
Leon
It's kinda quite here this morning, except for the neighbor's dogs barking, howling, and creating a generally disturbing racket. ("racket", Southern for noise). I vote for an 8 foot privacy fence.
It's been a busy week around here, and I feel it. The joints are speaking loudly, and if you listen carefully, you can probably hear them.
It all started Thursday with grocery buying, then the bi-weekly jam at 6 pm, with special guests. Then Friday night, our close friends came over for a meal and card games. We, the guys, actually won a game of canasta for a change after supper. Saturday was equally busy, with a friend coming over and picking up the treadmill that we didn't use, a noon range trip with another friend. I returned home just before dark and listened to the rest of the football game.
By the time we went to bed this ole guy was exhausted, worn out, and tired. I have about decided that I am too old for days and weeks like that.
But, I am thankful that I was able to do all those things, lots of folks aren't able to get out and shoot, play music, or just enjoy good company. Our card playing friends are long time, close friends that we have been thick with for over 40 years. We can call on them when we need prayer, fellowship, just to talk, trade guns, (and trade back), and spend time together. Their grown children still call us Uncle and Aunt (to me, that's a special blessing) and they are our Brother and Sister in Christ. I treasure their friendship, and I hope that during this Special Season you have special friends and family that you can call on and/or celebrate the Thanksgiving and Christmas Season with. Just because Thanksgiving is past doesn't mean giving thanks is over for the year. It's a never ending celebration. So call a shut in, thank a Veteran, a policeman, and most of all, thank God for another day, and all his blessings.
Enough!!!
Have a blessed Sabbath,
Leon
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