Category: Growing Older

This morning the toilet stopped up, I hurriedly plunged out the clogs. My wife called out from the kitchen, “It’s going to rain cats and dogs!” So I got out my umbrella, Put the plunger under the sink. I had no time for my breakfast And I didn’t take time to think. While waiting down […]

When you get old you lose a lot, Your glasses are the first to go. Then, of course, without your glasses The things you lose begin to grow. Today I lost my breakfast tray With ham and eggs and jellied toast. But of all the things I have lost I think I miss my mind […]

Grandma drives like lightning, It makes us ill at ease. It’s not that Grandma drives so fast She just hits lots of trees.

You’re worried about the hereafter? She said, “I worry every day.” “You have nothing to worry about.” “If you always take time out to pray.” She said, “But it causes me concern And my grandkids lots of laughter When they see their grandma all perplexed, Wondering what she’d come here after.”

I hear you’re having A birthday party And I guess you wish You were still forty? Well just stop and think, Before you shed tears, How old you would be Counting doggy years!