Happy Birthday Ole Joyful!!!!

Jasdip

13 years ago

Have a very happy birthday Ed!

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tami_ohio
13 years ago
Happy Birthday Ed! And many more!
jannie
13 years ago
Happy Birthday to a great guy!!!
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Hi Sue Yeah - "Another year older" ... but not "... deeper in debt"! Nice bonus today - one of the other librarians brought in a "Red Velvet" cake, to celebrate the head librarian's birthday, which was Sunday, and the second head's, which is today ... ... so, being as mine was yesterday, I qualified for a piece, too! Delicious! ole joyfuelled ... with a bit of help from birthday cake, on occasion ... actually, several, over the years
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Just in case I forget tomorrow, I shall wish you a Happy Birthday for tomorrow. I hope it's a great, great day for you.
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Thanks to all of you for your good wishes. Most of the snow had gone by yesterday, but we had a bit more, overnight - for which I'm thankful ... for when I backed the car out of the shed and returned to close the door ... there was a slim trail of brown stuff going out to the car. I backed it up a bit ... and there was a brownish pool under where the motor had been. Was it oil? If so, and I drove it ... soon no oil and seized engine. Brake fluid? Tranny fluid? Drove running engine uphill, coasting down, about 8 mi. to the church to have coffee with the old guys. No trail anywhere near where I entered the parking lot or under the car. Drove to the other church, 5 mi. or so, to tell the minister of an interesting speaker, Naomi Klein, on climate change and our current world situation in town tonight. I was noticing that the gas gauge seemed to be dropping much more quickly than usual. No residue trails visible ... but I'd coasted in. Drove ... carefully, through town, in case the droppings were brake fluid ... to the garage. Fuel filter rusted out, must be replaced, along with some of the gas line. Fifteen minute walk to the library, to talk to you guys ... and it's about time to wander back, as they may have the car fixed. Good thing I visited the bank yesterday, as I was almost broke, before. Thanks again for all of your good wishes - I value my relationship with you folks, some of whom I've met IRL. ole joyfuelled ... with a bit o' fuelling help from gasoline ... and furnace oil
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Ava, after that no-start on the nearby road a couple of weeks ago, I wondered whether it should have more reserve power and asked my garage man about it. He said that it should have had more reserve and that I need a new battery. It wouldn't start one morning about ten days ago, I couldn't find my charger till later when I'd put on warmer clothes. It's worked fine since but the past couple of days the temp has been around 0 (18 below, Celsius), so I gave it a few hours trickle charge last night and a few hours again this evening. If it gets close to discharge in this cold weather, the weakened acid may well freeze, and split it. Not desirable. I think that I've had this charger for about 40 years and doubt that I've used it more than a dozen/(two dozen?) times. Can't exactly accuse it of bring lazy, for it's been ready to work when called upon. I've been wondering about giving some neighbours and friends my phone number, saying that if they lack roadside emergency service or an available boost, if their battery's low and there's an electric plug within a hundred feet, I may well be able to come give them a charge - or a boost: I got some mid-range jumper cables about the same time that I got the charger. Sometimes I may have to beg off as being busy, but often not. ole joyfuelled
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lydia1959
13 years ago
Happy birthday ED! Hope it's a great one!
User
13 years ago
Have a great day!
Marilyn Sue
13 years ago
I wish you a wonderful birthday.

Sue
katlan
13 years ago
Happy Birthday Ed. Hope you have a great day.
kayjones
13 years ago
Happy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
cynic
13 years ago
Happy Birthday you wild and crazy guy!
Georgysmom
13 years ago
Happy Birthday, again, O.J. I hope it turns out to be a very special day.
schoolhouse_gw
13 years ago
Best Wishes!
joyfulguy
13 years ago
Thank you much, everyone.

Card came from niece in Swan Hills, Alberta, yesterday ...

... delayed opening it till after midnight.

Daughter called.

Going out to dinner with son and partner tomorrow evening.

Yackin' with you folks today could be called something of a birthday blessing.

As I said in my Christmas message (that appeared here) when one gets old (and, for many, are downsizing) who - needs - more - stuff??!!

Temperature about 45 F. today (but to get cold again overnight). Sometimes when I see folks going from car to market in weather like this, I say that if they're in charge of ordering weather ... they can keep doing this till March, if they like: usually causes a smile and, often, a reply in kind.

old joyful
kacram
13 years ago
Happy birtday
Old Joyful!
I hope you
have a great year!!!
donna_loomis
13 years ago
Have a truly joyful birthday!
mamatoad
13 years ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED! WISHING YOU A DAY FILLED WITH SMILES AND A YEAR'S WORTH OF BLESSINGS!
minnie_tx
13 years ago
So you finished another trip around the sun !!! Happy Day
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
13 years ago
May all your wishes come true! Happy Birthday to you and many more to come!
joyfulguy
13 years ago
It's 84.

And thankful to be enjoying good health (with the help of some rat poison).

ole joyful
sooey
13 years ago
Happy, Happy Birthday, Ed! Enjoy your day and eat lots and lots of yummy cake!

sooey
patti43
13 years ago
Happy Birthday to the sweetest guy ever. Have a wonderful day!
Cherryfizz
13 years ago
Happy Birthday Ed!
stacey_mb
13 years ago
Happy birthday, Ed! Hope you had a great day!
cheryl_ok
13 years ago
Happy Birthday Ed!
Hope it was a great one
susanjf_gw
13 years ago
belated happy bday!
ont_gal
13 years ago
Happy Birthday Ed!
drewsmaga
13 years ago
Happy Happy Birthday, Ed! Keep on posting! (LOVE your posts!) And have the upcoming year be your BEST year ever!
Hellion
13 years ago
Happy Birthday to you!
Sue_va
13 years ago
I know you will have a great birthday, because you are always JOYFUL!!

Sue
joyfulguy
13 years ago
Investment group of about 18 met last night ... I announced birthday ... they didn't sing ... I was a bit disappointed.

Last week at men's coffee hour at the church (the Old Farts' club) they gave each of us birthday-boys-in-January a cupcake with candle.

I held mine at arm's length ... blew it out.

Thought it'd cause some fun if I succeeded (it did) ... and some if I didn't ...

... so thought it worth the gamble.

Thanks for all of your good wishes.

ole joyfuelled
heather_on
13 years ago
Wishing you a wonderful day!
schoolhouse_gw
13 years ago
They didn't sing? Well, now we can't have that. Here something just for you from all us at the Kitchen Table:

Here is a link that might be useful: Happy Birthday
dianamo_1
13 years ago
Happy Birthday!!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Happy Birthday
hounds_x_two
13 years ago
Late Birthday good-wishes help the celebration last longer!
Happy Birthday!
petaloid
13 years ago
Best Birthday Week to You!
susie53_gw
13 years ago
Hope you had a wonderful birthday..
joyfulguy
13 years ago
Tried to explain to son how to get to the restaurant that I'd suggested, and, as his partner is somewhat directionally disenfranchised, and I couldn't give him a street address, we met at her workplace just after five (after I made the recent post) and headed for the restaurant, along some rather rural roads ... amid some (light) discussion that they had restaruants closer, in town.

Anyway, we made the one where the Old Farts from church take their wives for lunch just before their summer break.

Not many in the dining room part of the establishment, and son blew me up a multi-balloon hat to celebrate (he does this for kids at fairs, festivals, etc.).

Visited a table where a couple of middle-aged ladies had settled, asking whether they thought my hat might indicate that I was nearing second childhood.

We were about ten miles from where I live, and after a bit of banter, one lady looked at me and said that she thought that my name was XXXXXX, wasn't it ... and I said that I had to plead quilty to the charge.

She, who lives on a farm a couple of miles from me, was daughter-in-law to one of Dad's cousins ... and visited my first cousin's home frequently, over a number of years, as housekeeper for his disadvantaged wife, a few years ago ... we've met a couple of times, I think.

Her husband died (of cancer?) a few months ago, and I commisserated with her about that. The other lady had lived near her, her husband took his own life a few years ago, and she'd moved to the city. I'd been friends with the older generation of that family: her father-in-law was a friend to the whole community.

As we were leaving, I said to the first lady that she'd had a late-teen son who'd had a battle with cancer several years ago (I'd visited their home at the time) and I wondered how that had turned out.

It seems that he was in remission for ten years ... but recently it has returned ... with a vengeance ... and he was just in the middle of getting a transplant at that time.

So I offered my good wishes for all of them and offered to say some prayers on their behalf.

One never knows what may show up around the next bend in the road.

Sometimes some little thing that one does, often at the spur of the moment, turns out much differently than one could have anticipated.

ole joyful
joyfulguy
13 years ago
On Sunday evening, en route home, I dropped in to the lady's farm home, nearby.

She'd just arrived home from spending the day with her son in the hospital, following the transplant.

He's coping with a very high fever, and may have been for a while.

I ask for your good thoughts and hopes, plus some prayers offered on the part of those of you who do that, for the young man and his family.

ole joyful

Happy Birthday Ole Joyful!!!!

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