Happy Birthday Joyful, and many more!

Best birthday wishes and blessings to you, Joyful!

May you have a great and memorable one.

U are our SPECIAL KT fella!

Lots of hugs!

I've been seeing that your birthday is approaching and was going to post but was too slow on the draw but that doesn't matter.

Have a happy joyful one old(er) Joyful. Keep 'em coming!

Happy Birthday Ole Joyful!!!

Vickey-MN

Happy Happy Birthday Ole Joyful. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Have a great day.........

Phyllis

Hope you have a really nice birthday!

Sue

WHAT???? Today's your birthday? Well, have a good one. Let us know what you are doing!

Have a great day Joyful!

Add my wishes to your special day (today)tomorrow!! :)

Happy birthday, Ed! Hopefully, we'll be able to get a few of us who live in the area together this spring and we can celebrate all our birthdays!

Well, Young Joyful, have a Wonderful Birthday.

The ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out) ( but ... they're coffee drinkers) group meeting on Thursday was the day that they celebrated the January birthdays, and one of the twenty or so has his on the same day as mine.

All three of us got a cupcake with candle, and when, after the song, each got to blow his candle out ...

... this old smart-a$$ decided to hold his at arm's length, to see whether he could accomplish the feat.

It should have been hilarious, whichever result applied ...

... and he succeeded in blowing the darned thing out!

So, of course, some teasing ensued! "Blow-hard" ... "hot air", etc.

They've had a local library closed for some upgrades for a couple of weeks, so at the party for the reopening yesterday, the librarian gave me a cupcake to celebrate and regretted that she didn't have a candle: it's sitting on the dash of the car, and I figure to take it to son's place shortly.

I wore my "Don't forget my SENIOR DISCOUNT" ball cap to the churches today, part of the boodle when daughter flew me to AZ for my 80th, a couple of years ago, and there was some hilarity over that.

Lady minister at the second church said that she'd heard that it was my birthday and gave me a hug ... had they heard of it earlier in coffee hour, no doubt there'd have been singing.

Did some shopping, I'm here on the computer, and going to son's for dinner shortly.

Should be fun.

As for gifts - what 80-year-old needs more STUFF!

Time to cut down.

I have a nice pair of pants that I've seldom worn, but am wearing today, named "Sans-a-belt" ... and for those of you who don't know French, "sans" is "without".

Trouble is, they are a bit past their prime, and (get ready for it!) the elastic part of the top area of the pants has lost some of its prime ... or "zip" ... or whatever you call it, without stretching the truth too much.

So ... now I have to either find a way to use a belt on the darned things (without loops - seems to me that the designers were "loopy") ...

or get suspenders (hopefully, colourful ones) ...

... or eat more, that I can encourage to go to waist!

Or give them to Good Will?

Life do have its problems, don't it?

Hey ... haven't we been down this road before??!!

ole joyfilled

Hope it's not too late for me to wish you a Happy Birthday, too. Heck, 80 isn't old--not to me, anyway. My DH was 80 last September and I'm only a couple of years behind. Hopefully, you, Oldjoyful, and we, too, will keep going strong for a few more years! :>)

Happy Happy Birthday to you......OJ and many many more!

Nanny

It would be great to get together again, luckygardner

Happy Birthday from one of the lurkers ( only cause I am only on once in awhile) Hope it was great for you...

Hope you got a new pair of pants, or suspenders.

Just wanted to add my best wishes to you for the year ahead.

sounds like you are enjoying your birthday.

Charlee

Happy Birthday, Ole Joyful!

Happy Birthday Ed

Sorry I missed this yesterday, but hope you had a joyful birthday, Mr. O.J.!

Aww, I missed wishing you a Happy Birthday yesterday. So I'll say it again, Happy Birthday, Ed!!!!! Hope you had a grand time.
Erin

Happy belated birthday.

Took the cupcake to son's place.

His lady had forgotten about it, or would have made a cake ... but when she heard of it ... made one.

So ... the cupcake came home - intact.

Ham, pineapple and mango for dinner ... yummm!

And ... it appears that I may be getting my computer back, fairly soon.

Had a discussion with a nearby guy who does a lot of investing the other day - he uses satellite for internet.

Maybe I'll have to spring for that.

As we used to kid old uncle ..." you can't take it with you".

Surprising result of my birthday commentary here ... scarcely any mention of the failing elastic in the nice pants!

Maybe they just don't want to encourage me.

ole joyful

Well Joyful, I still want to know if you ever traded in the bloomers!

Happy Birthday Ed, and many, many more!

Hi cynner,

Like I said ... I traded in one or two of the worst ones ... but the rest still had some good times left, so I was hanging on to them ...

... and got the others from Christmas '09 at Christmas '10 (the first one - when daughter was with us).

As I said ... I guess that I outwaited them.

Got some socks, this Christmas ... and winter woolies. Which I'm using: it's rather cold, around here.

Not looking forward to tomorrow: if the weather's too un-nice ...

... I'll probably look out the window ...

... and opine as how I didn't want to go out today, anyway.

One of the privileges of retirement, that.

ole joyfilled

A friend provided me with suspenders for the pants!

Wide, red ones - guess that I'll have to become opinionated, like Larry King?

I still have quite a few of the briefs - handy to wear in winter, several in sequence, letting them air out in between.

And now that it's spring, can wash 'em all and hang 'em out on the line.

Actually, wash occasionally in winter, hanging them on lines in the basement ...

... or, rarely, throw 'em in the dryer.

Do dryers get old and tired from disuse (do they wear out faster, that is)?

ole joyfuelled

P.S. I find it hard to believe that this thread survived for over three months!

o j

Joyful, old buddy, I can't believe someone hasn't done an underwear intervention on you yet! Any volunteers? We'll meet there, tie him to a chair and burn those bloomers! I was going to say in a campfire but would have to have a lot of wood because it doesn't sound like there's much left to burn! :)