Right on and if somebody thinks I should act my age, "I" go and fly a kite!

For the most part, I think store bought cards are a waste of money . . . and too expensive! When they were young, I always encouraged my kids to make me one instead. Loved them! DH & I don't exchange cards, although we do buy each other gifts and make holidays special for one another. But, because the rest of our entire very large clan lives in other parts of the country, I do like to keep in touch. I send Facebook birthday and anniversary messages with a photo to most of them. In addition, I also call my sibs and parents . . . and, I joined Treat about two years ago. Now I create very special one-of-a-kind cards for very special occasions, such as a card to my mom for Mother's Day, to my dad, to my parents for their anniversaries. There are dozens of design options that I can then personalize myself by changing the wording and adding my own photos that I upload. They LOVE them, as I use childhood pics, pics from our times together over the years, etc. DD goes to college out of state now and DS is working in Arizona. I love being able to send them special cards. Through their affiliated site, Shutterfly, I've created beautifully bound books of photos from our family reunions for my parents, as well as other gift books for friends. From another of their sites, TinyPrints, DD and I designed a very special graduation announcements when she graduated from high school. We got rave reviews on those and they were much less expensive and much more personal that the generic ones the schools try to sell you. Anyhoo, I've been very happy with each company, the prices, card quality, delivery time, etc. Lynn

Reminds me of Justin's old joke about the kid home from college and the father asked him what he's learning and the kid replies algebra. Father says "OK talk some algebra to me." Son tries to tell him it's not something you just speak it's math and the father says I paid all this money to send you there now talk some algebra to me right now or you're not going back. So the kid replies, OK Pi(r2). Father smacks him in the face and says "Shame on you for wasting all that money. You've been skipping classes. Everybody knows pie are ROUND! CORNBREAD are square! And having southern relatives, it just is a bit more amusing to me than to most perhaps.

Sorry the link didn't work. Here is the complete poem: THE HUMAN ALTITUDE BY GEOFFREY DKAHMKK [The Nation and the AI lien-rum] WHEN I catch myself agape Grinning at a Barbary ape, Or assuming hatred lies In the hungry tiger's eyes; When I call the vulture 'vile,' Or 'devilish' the crocodile; Tigers 'cruel,' camels' humps 'Ugly,' or the roseate rumps Which baboons so proudly show As they swing from bough to bough; When I call the boar 'malicious,' Kite 'revolting,' grizzly 'vicious,' 'Quaint' the lithe prehensile nose The elephant so blithely blows; When I say of birds: 'The he-male Warbles to attract the she-male,' Or 'Brute beasts are soulless,' I Do not merely simply lie  I commit a sheer enormity Like one jeering at deformity  I curse the day and bless the night; In short, I sin against the light. When I reluctantly arise, Breakfast, after exercise, With dispassionate disdain, And breathlessly approach my train, With my bowler on and spats; Do the sparrows, dogs, and cats Mock me in amused delight? No, they don't, but well they might. Animals have no pretense Veiling their indifference. They don't overeat nor whine, Label all things 'yours' and 'mine.' Never vulgar, avaricious, Sentimental, superstitious; Never snobbish, vengeful, vain, Pleasure they accept, and pain. Vice is unknown, filth abhorred. They do good without reward. When their lives on earth are done, Happily, I think, they run Over death's dividing dark, Where those saints who ran the Ark  Noah and Japheth, Ham and Shem  Probably look after them. I think that is all of it. Brenda