Please join me in wishing Ole Joyful a Happy Birthday!

petalique

4 months ago

I wish you a very Happy Birthday, ole joyful, and many more. I also wish you good health, love, connection and joy.

I hope you had a good day!

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4 months ago

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It's ole joyful come to offer ...

Heartfelt thanks to all of you for your good wishes!

It was my turn to take the treats to the senior men's gathering for coffee, cookies and conversation at the village church so I took three choices - and the minister brought a three layer cake to celebrate my 9696th birthday. (That was just a 2 digit message, but sometimes strange things happen, here!).

The road to a plaza about 2.6 + a bit miles away has been closed for rebuilding for months but now is open with restricted lanes, so after my shopping and visit to credit union, I headed back to Lambeth.

The restricted road meant no hitchhiking ... so I had to walk the whole way, carrying a heavy bag of groceries hung with a shoulder strap, which my somewhat bent back objected to.

About half way, I crossed "Pack Road", about 2 miles long, bearing my mother's family name, that was where we used to go to visit grandma in a big old white brick house. Grandpa had died before I, her firstborn, was aware: my mom lost her dad when she was quite young.

It sure was good to see the signal lights in the village, and when I got within about a block of the church a woman got out of her car at a street corner, asking, "Ed - do you need a ride?"

What a glorious message, as I was really tired! I was not looking forward to the hitchhike home, after I picked up the remnants of the snacks I'd brought.

A lovely ride the half block to the church, I picked up my snacks, offered to give them some - but when I arrived home just unloaded and forgot to make good on my offer!

This was the third time she's picked me up, the first was having her daughter with her so she was willing to take a chance. She acts as though we're old friends, gave me her name and number and is willing to drive me where I need to go sometimes.

So on arrival home ... had some more of the snacks, with coffee, and enjoyed a nice nap.

I think that I've said before - that more than half of the people who pick me up are female, mostly middle aged or older - you can see why a youngish woman would be reluctant to share her car for a few minutes with a man standing on the roadside!

It's been an interesting day.

By the way, I've tried to start a couple of discussions here, but can't find "The kitchen table" to send them to ...

... can someone tell me "where to go" (preferably with a smile - how often does one get told "where to go" - with a smile?)

Thanks, again, for your good wishes.

ole joyfuelled

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dedtired
4 months ago
Happy birthday to our dear friend.
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4 months ago
Happy birthday!!! 🎂🎉🌷
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Happy Birthday, ole joyful! Seening your name on a post always makes me happy!
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Happy Birthday! May you have many more joyful years!
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A little late to the party, but Happiest Birthdays to you Ole Joyful! You are an inspirational person and I hope your day was truly joyful!
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morz8 - Washington Coast
4 months ago
I'm just now seeing this but could not miss the opportunity to wish you a happy birthday. There is an hour and a half left of it in my time zone! I/we think of you often and hope you are well and happy.
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Happy Belated Birthday Ole Joyful!
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4 months ago
Another one adding belated birthday wishes for this one and many more.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Happy Birthday (belated) to my favorite person in this community!! xoxoxox
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4 months ago
Happy HAPPY birthday, even if the wish is belated! I hope ALL your days are happy and filled with joy, you are definitely an inspiration!

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greenshoekitty
4 months ago
you are wish you the very best and to have a great day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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4 months ago
I am late! Happy Birthday!
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4 months ago
Happy Birthday to a wonderful man !
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4 months ago
After reading your post, I'm wondering if one of these might be useful?
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Oh, happy happy birthday, Ole Joyful! I hope it is the beginning of an absolutely marvelous year for you.
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4 months ago
I'll hitch a ride on Judipudi's sloth for my belated birthday congratulations.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Might you share some of your earlier birthday celebrations wth us? Did you get cake and ice cream? Gifts? What was a special treat?
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Hope you had a fantastically joyful day!!! HBD!
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4 months ago
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I am also late to the party, but I do wish you the happiest of birthdays!
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Michele
4 months ago
Boy I’m late…..but I’ll send Happy Birthday weekend wishes!!!
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4 months ago
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It's ole joyful here again.

Had I been listening to my body at the store, I might have heard, "Hey buddy - remember those restricted lanes in the street, making it hard to hitchhike? How about putting those three small packs of half price carrots, zucchinis and peppers into that multiuse grocery bag that you just took out of me instead of carrying it empty to the church for those residual cookies?"

I had the bag in my hand at Pack Road, about half way ... but a few hundred feet later, realizing it was gone, chose not to retrace my steps, carrying the heavy bag, requiring me to cover that same ground three times.

Again, didn't listen to my body's advice, "Hey, dumb-ass, while it surely is helpful your carrying the shoulder-strap bag just above your ass, to ease the load on your bent back, how about going back for the bag, then swinging the big bag around to the front and putting some of the weight into the lost one, huh?"

Too soon old, too late smart, it looks like!

We need to listen to the wisdom of our inner selves, as we travel this life, I think.

Anyone agree?

That good luck-enabled ride home, by the person who's chosen to become a friend, surely was appreciated!

Sometimes it may help grease the wheels of society and life when we offer a smile to strangers.

ole joyful
maire_cate
4 months ago
Somehow I missed this on your birthday but it's never too late to send heartfelt birthday wishes to Ole Joyful .
martinca_gw sunset zone 24
4 months ago
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Dear Mr. Joyful…formal as we’ve not yet met :) I only get to this Kitchen Table from the “Other Side”, Decorating Conversations. There, I look for a post that’s on both sides and can then come over here. I,too, enjoy your always sunny posts. Hope you had a lovey bday! You live in a village? That always sounds lovely and British, though we do have some here in the U.S. , too. Mostly New England, perhaps? Did you see carolb’s suggestion? Looks perfect for non-drivers. Your trek exhausted me just reading about it. Make it a well-deserved bday gift for yourself._and keep posting!

marti
lucillle
4 months ago
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I hope it is OK to make a suggestion. I suggest that you start a GFM for one of those electric adult tricycles, you can either pedal them just like you would a regular adult tricycle or use the battery boost. The electricity cost is modest. I know that many would enjoy pitching in to help.

There are many different companies that make them, and you can either buy one fully equipped, or buy a kit to add to a regular tricycle. I have two regular pedal driven trikes which are a joy to ride (I'd give you one if you were closer) and will probably someday outfit one with a kit.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
4 months ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of my favorite people! Ed, I hope your day was a great one, but I suspect you can see something positive out of any day. Stay warm and cozy for the rest of the winter, my friend.
Cherryfizz
4 months ago
Happy Birthday Ed! I hope you had a wonderful day
nelliebean
4 months ago
Happy Birthday!
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Olychick
4 months ago
To get to the Kitchen Table to post (it doesn't always show on the forum list) I think if you make sure you are on the GardenWeb URL and not on the Houzz URL it works. Here is a link that perhaps you can save or bookmark and just click on it when you want to post? Not sure if it will work, but worth a try https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/kitchentable
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4 months ago
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GGrGreGreeGreetGreetiGreetinGreetingGreetings everyone. Again - my thanks to each of you for your good wishes. I m gratified that so many of you chose to offer yours.

And I am thankful to those of you who offered personal comments.

Thanks Oly.

The address I used long ago was ths.gardenweb.com and recently when I want to change, I click on the name of the one I'm using, I move to Google, and the Houzz icon is there. So I guess I'm using the Houzz access now.

@carolb_w_fl thanks for the suggestion. Son, who's lived with me for over a year, has one, says it's useful sometimes - but a bit of a nuisance to haul around in between, and I rather agree not so great when hitchhiking. This is my third winter coping with snow, and the cart would be mainly useful in other seasons.

@lucille I thought of buying an electric bike a couple of years ago - but didn't.

Thinking of buying a car - daughter and son in law who visited last summer found one in Georgia, but we chose not to take it - then.

But the eventual almost certain move to the city, at triple current rent before son came, double the current $1,000.+ a bit or more, would be covered if it would allow us to continue living here for six months to a year longer.

@martinca-gw I've lived on what was step-uncle's farm for, come March, 20 years, renting this old farmhouse from the purchaser following his death, about 6+ miles from the village where I went to high school and about 12 - 20 miles from London, Ontario, half way between Detroit and Buffalo or Toronto - a couple of hours drive from four of the Great Lakes.

Landlord allows space for garden, cultivates it, a few years ago I ran almost a mile of rows, took veggies to a couple of churches I relate to, much smaller recently.

Story of car broken in colliision no injuries, loss of licence, hitchhike to village, bus to city, thankful for enabling health, friends advise move to city, thankful can afford it, elsewhere on this thread.

@Cherryfizz - Greetings! How have you been? How long ago was it that we met in Windsor, do you remember? It was my first face to face with Gardenweb folks. Have you connected with Dances recently? Were there others beside the three of us?

When I see your name, it warms my heart - even though my active forgetter can't remember the real one!

Good wishes to all of you for the year ahead.

ole joyful
Love stone homes
4 months ago
Happy belated birthday!
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Jasdip
4 months ago
A very Belated Happy Birthday OJ!! You're walking to your get-togethers and shopping? Please take that lovely lady's offer on a ride periodically. And of course, when it's icy, as now, stay home :-)

I'm so glad you celebrated your 96th. A milestone, indeed!!!

As you, I agree that a wheelie cart is no good in the winter. Any I've had or seen aren't great for long distances as well. Can you at least get a cab or an Uber when you have to go long distances? Take care of yourself, my friend.
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