WINE

      I always cook with wine. Sometimes I add it to the food.

                                                                W.C. Fields

   W.C fields was an actor, comedian, juggler and writer. He was born in 1880 and died in 1946.

DIFFICULTIES

       There  are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet  them.

                                                                                             Phyllis Bottome

     Phyllis Bottome was an English novelist and short  story writer. She  was born in 1884 in Hampstead U.K. Since she was a writer and not a humorist, her quotes are more about how we live.

     From Sam Levinson we get the humor that we enjoy. However one could debate the topic about children driving parents nutty. It quite often could be the other way. e could find quotes about the joys   of having children.

HUMOR

            Insanity isn't inherited. You get it from your children.

                                                                                                              Sam Levinson          

         Sam Levinson was an American humorist born in 1911. His humor was famous for quotes.  Today his quotes are still funny but dated. We don't use the term insanity anymore but we still get the humor.

AGE

     When I went looking for my quotes I found two things that I had been looking for for a long time.

    I had looked for years for a poem I had started. Well, it was in with my quotes. Then I found a family tree from my mother's side of the family. I had forgotten that I had the family tree and don't remember where I got it from or who made it up.

      THE OLDER I GROW, THE MORE I LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T TALK MUCH.

                                                                                     Germain Glein

BLOG CHANGE

        I have decided to make some changes to my blog. I have been struggling lately. Topics seem hard to come by. If I don't have something interesting to say it's hard to write something. So, like I chose my retirement, I couldn't teach the way I wanted to . I knew then it was time to quit.

     So I'm not exactly quitting. I'm going to do a quote of the day. Where did this idea come from? Well yes, I did this in school. Many kids read the quote of the day once they got into the classroom. For me it was  way to get their attention I was always impressed when some little guys checked into the classroom for  quote  of the day and they weren't in my class.

     So once in while there will be a post but most of the time a quote. I hope you like them.

    I will still be  round to read your posts.

    Blogging has been very interesting and rewarding for me.

FAMILY GATHERINGS

             My family background is German except for my mother. Mom had to tough it out at family gatherings because when the family was together, they spoke German. The family was good to her and tried to keep her in the discussion.

            My Grandfather was born in 1864. I was born in 1939. That means that he was 74 when I was born. He was very happy as I was his first grandson. 74 was  quite old to become a Grandpa.

          Here I am when my grandpa sees me for the first time

                Most of the family would get together two or three times a summer. We only lived 8 miles apart but because of transportation and roads we didn't get to Grandma and Grandpas very often.

        Now skip on a few years. At the family gathers the men visited in the living room. The women stayed in the kitchen. The girl grandchildren were nice the little girls. The boy grand children ran all over Grandpa's very neat farm yard. Grandpa was out on the yard with us trying to protect his neat yard from the grandsons who ran all over the place. Grandpa had  special way of piling his would. We would crawl over his neat wood pile and mess it up. He was probably watching us to see that we didn't harm ourselves.

      So I often think about what he thought about his first loving grandson and that grandson who later ran over his neat farm yard.

      Grandpa lived at our house for much if his last ten years.

HAPPY CANADA DAY

     I wish my friends  and readers a Happy Canada Day. I hope that we stay united and work together for the benefit of all.