Here we go again

First of all, before I proceed with this Blog entry I need to apologize. When I decided to create a Blog Site I intended to come up with some real entertaining and stimulating stuff. In reviewing my previous entries I found that many dealt with the trials and tribulations of advancing age. In all honesty I do not need to be reminded, but I’m sorry to say that conversations amongst friends and acquaintances all revolve around the effects of advancing age. Are any of you experiencing the same thing?

As an example, yesterday I played in a golf tournament sponsored by the Calendar House which is the Senior Center in Southington, Connecticut. Here’s four guys out for a good time on the links. Know what we talked about? Frequency of nighttime urination, new procedures on enlarged prostates, how many times we get up during the night. How come so many of us are wide awake at 4:00 A.M. in the morning, shouldn’t we form some kind of early bird club. Strange how we slept like rocks till all hours a few years back and now we’re clicking away madly on our remotes to find something decent to watch at 4:00 besides infomercials.

You must agree that all of this is not even remotely exciting, but that’s not the worst of it. Never, and I mean never, ask any of these elderly gentlemen how they’re feeling, because by God you better be prepared to find out. I now know more about bypass surgery, high blood pressure, high sugar counts and enough other medical problems to create a little journal.

Then there’s the discussion about the diminished length of their tee shots. All the technology available today doesn’t appear to add the necessary yardage. I must say that hitting the ball from the senior tees does help a little. That’s one of the very few advantages of advancing age along with an occasional senior discount and getting away with some things that only seniors can get away with.

I will say that I did have a pleasant surprise this past weekend. Our High School Class of 1952 held a little class reunion pizza party. We had our 55^th a couple of years ago, but we decided that at our age we shouldn’t wait every five years. The surprise was that everyone was so much older looking than me…….lol. See how boring this stuff is.

Now you know why I apologized right at the start.

Well, let's away from the old stuff. Marge and I, along with our friends once again completed the Connecticut Wine Trail. We visited 19 of the possible 24 wineries on the trail. Now we wait to see if they pick our passports at the drawing for many trips including a couple to Spain. This was our third year doing it. Of course with what we spend on these winery trips it would be smarter for us to just pay for the trip.