Living the Aging Life

My neighbor’s house stands vacant,

sitting empty, week by week.

Now and then, a stranger’s car

drives by to take a peek.

Somewhere there’s a family

that needs to find a place,

and this house needs a family

to fold in its embrace.

I went down to the shopping mall.

There’s so much stiff – I can’t recall!

With items piled from wall to wall…

How ever do they sell it all?

I’m safari-ing in Africa!

I’m here in Tanzania!

I see the mighty animals!

Oh, Gee!  Oh, Momma Mia!

My eyes are wide with all I see

across the broad savannah.

The skies are high and bluer

than the Big Sky of Montana!

And when we’ve seen what we can see

we’ll go by motor car,

 to visit awesome wonders of the

isles of Zanzibar.

And then I’ll pack up bags again

to hop upon a plane,

and head back tired and happy

to Nevada once again.

Tomorrow is forever

yet it’s never, ever here.

You can wait for it a lifetime,

still, it never will appear.

I welcome coyotes to my yard.

I cheer each one I see.

Where there are coyotes in a yard,

that yard is Rabbit Free!

I sing my country’s songs today.

I sing of liberty.

I sing of hope and justice

and of opportunity.

I sing my country’s songs with joy,

with love, with harmony.

I sing about America…

my country, that is free.

Good Morning, Friend.

Arise and shine!

Today’s a fresh new day.

May you know Joy and Happiness.

All good things come your way.

Today.

America’s birthday… Holiday!

Pray for our country’s flag today.

Pray for our nation –

that we’ll stand tall –

with justice, freedom, and hope for all.

America’s Bicentennial, 2026

(for Shannon)

I’m living with a spider.

Spiders like to be alone.

So she’s living in my shower

where she’s made a Spider Zone.

She seems to do much better

when I leave her by herself,

doing what it is that spiders do,

beneath a bathroom shelf.

It’s a quiet life we’re leading,

just enjoying one another.

I’m behaving quite responsibly.

I am a Spider Mother.

Whidbey Island had an earthquake.

On the Scale, ‘twas pretty small,

but it made a noisy clamor when

the clock crashed off the wall!

Electronics got all tangled.

Printer had to be re-set.

Google can’t find her location

and there may be more stuff yet.

It was just a little earthquake, so,

on balance, all in all…

we came out pretty lucky.

Only Clock had quite a fall!