The Back Nine

THE BACK NINE ...

I FIRST STARTED READING THIS EMAIL & WAS READING FAST UNTIL I REACHED THE THIRD SENTENCE. I STOPPED

AND STARTED OVER READING SLOWER AND THINKING ABOUT EVERY WORD. THIS EMAIL IS VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING.

MAKES YOU STOP AND THINK. READ SLOWLY!

The Back Nine...

AND THEN IT IS WINTER ...

You know ... time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware
of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just
married and embarking on my new life with my mate. Yet in a way, it
seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. I know
that I lived them all. I have glimpses of how it was back then and of
all my hopes and dreams.

But, here it is... the back nine of my life and it catches me by
surprise...How did I get here so fast? Where did the years go and
where did my youth go?

I remember well seeing older people through the years and thinking
that those older people were years away from me and that I was only on
the first hole and the back nine was so far off that I could not
fathom it or imagine fully what it would be like.

But, here it is...my friends are retired and getting gray...they move
slower and I see an older person now. Some are in better and some
worse shape than me...but, I see the great change...Not like the ones
that I remember who were young and vibrant...but, like me, their age
is beginning to show and we are now those older folks that we used to
see and never thought we'd become.

Each day now, I find that just getting a shower is a real target for
the day! And taking a nap is not a treat anymore... it's mandatory!
Cause if I don't on my own free will... I just fall asleep where I sit!

And so...now I enter into this new season of my life unprepared for
all the aches and pains and the loss of strength and ability to go and
do things that I wish I had done but never did!! But, at least I know,
that though I’m on the back nine, and I'm not sure how long it will
last...this I know, that when it's over on this earth...it's over. A
new adventure will begin! Yes, I have regrets. There are things I wish
I hadn't done...things I should have done, but indeed, there are many
things I'm happy to have done. It's all in a lifetime.

So, if you're not on the back nine yet...let me remind you, that it
will be here faster than you think. So, whatever you would like to
accomplish in your life please do it quickly! Don't put things off too
long!! Life goes by quickly. So, do what you can today, as you can
never be sure whether you’re on the back nine or not!

You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your
life...so, live for today and say all the things that you want your
loved ones to remember...and hope that they appreciate and love you
for all the things that you have done for them in all the years past!!

"Life" is a gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to
those who come after. Make it a fantastic one. LIVE IT WELL!   ENJOY
TODAY!  DO SOMETHING FUN!  BE HAPPY!  HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Remember "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver .

LIVE HAPPY IN 2015!

LASTLY, CONSIDER THIS:

~Your kids are becoming you......but your grandchildren are perfect!
~Going out is good.. Coming home is better!
~You forget names.... But it's OK because some people forgot they even
knew you!!!
~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything like golf.
~The things you used to care to do, you aren't as interested in
anymore, but you really do care that you aren't as interested.
~You sleep better on a lounge chair with the TV 'ON' than in bed. It's
called "pre-sleep".
~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF"
switch..
~You tend to use more 4 letter words ... "what?"..."when?"... ???
~You notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!
~What used to be freckles are now liver spots.
~Everybody whispers.
~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet.... 2 of which you will never wear.
~~~But Old is good in some things: Old Songs, Old movies, and best of all,

OLD FRIENDS !!

Stay well, "OLD FRIEND!" Send this on to other "Old Friends!" and let
them laugh in AGREEMENT!!! It's Not What You Gather, But What You
Scatter That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived.

TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN; YET THE YOUNGEST YOU'LL EVER BE, SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT LASTS.
“Do Not Regret Growing Older. It is a Privilege Denied to Many.”

PickleBall What a Great Sport For All Ages

PickleBall What a Great Sport For Seniors and all Ages

There are many reasons why pickleball is GROWING in North America.

It’s fun, friendly, and great exercise.

Pickleball What a Great Sport

I Relish Pickleball

Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis. Pickleball is a sport in which two or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a perforated polymer ball, similar to a wiffle ball, over a net. The sport shares features of other racquet sports, the dimensions and layout of a badminton court, and a net and rules similar to tennis, with a few modifications. Pickleball was invented in the mid 1960s as a children’s backyard pastime but quickly became popular among adults as a fun game for players of all skill levels. ~wikipedia

Also, you may enjoy this site about National Anthems, National Anthem Lyrics and National Flags:

AnthemWorld

http://www.anthemworld.com/

Karma

Finally

Free-range kids could become healthier, happier adults

PHOTO 

Research suggests letting kids play in unstructured, natural environments might help their development.

Is our obsession with safety and providing sanitised spaces for children actually hindering their development? Let them fail, fall and feel their own way through and we might reverse a worrying trend, writes Rachael Sharman.

Increasingly our home, built and school environments in Australia are being sanitised for child's play, with litigation risk being a key driver.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-07/sharman-free-range-kids-could-become-healthier,-happier-adults/7306740

Amazing Blue Jays Parody!

Toronto Musician Writes Another Amazing Blue Jays Parody!

http://www.kiss925.com/2016/04/09/toronto-musician-writes-another-amazing-blue-jays-parody/

It’s Time to Celebrate Spring

 Spring

It’s Time to Celebrate Spring

It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”  ~ Mark Twain

“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”  ~ Doug Larson

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.  The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”  ~ Henry Van Dyke

“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow.  Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.”  ~ E.B. White, “Hot Weather,” One Man’s Meat, 1944

If April showers bring May flowers, what do Mayflowers bring?

Pilgrims

What do you call a sunny day that’s followed by two days of rain?

Monday

What happens when it rains cats and dogs?

You have to be careful not to step in a poodle.

Spring Fever

Four high school boys afflicted with spring fever skipped morning classes. After lunch they reported to the teacher that they had a flat tire.

Much to their relief she smiled and said, “Well, you missed a test today so take seats apart from one another and take out a piece of paper.”

Still smiling, she waited for them to sit down. Then she said: “First Question: Which tire was flat?”

Spring is in the air. Ewed jump too!

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Vernal EquiFLOCKS

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Funny Winter in Canada

Old Man Winter and Jack Frost ~ Having Fun in Canada

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~ Carl Reiner

How to survive Winter in Canada:

https://www.mun.ca/isa/info/SURVIVING_WINTER_IN_CANADA_infosheet.pdf

Took the next 3 photos today!

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone; Snow had fallen

, snow on snow, Snow on snow,

In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina G. Rossetti

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters

of that country know them to be sharp and violent,

and subject to cruel and fierce storms.  William Bradford

The Christmas Song

(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) : Lyrics

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping on your nose, Yuletide carols being sung by a choir, And folks dressed up like Eskimos. 

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe, 

Help to make the season bright. 

Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow,

Will find it hard to sleep tonight.

They know that Santa’s on his way; He’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh. And every mother’s child is going to spy, To see if reindeer really know how to fly.

And so I’m offering this simple phrase, To kids from one to ninety-two, Although its been said many times, many ways, A very Merry Christmas to you

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.  ~Andrew Wyeth

One kind word can warm three winter months.  ~Japanese Proverb

Jack Frost is a sprite-like character with roots in Viking lore. There, he is known as Jokul Frosti (“icicle frost”). In Britain and United States, Jack is a variant of Old Man Winter and is held responsible for frosty weather, for nipping the nose and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and leaving fernlike patterns on cold windows in winter.

we’ll never know who sent her the little lady named winter

but she danced into our hearts and stole away sweet autumn’s grace

filled our hearts with her sparkling face of snow and cold ice her laughter in the winds calling to us like a friend

dress up warm and come out to play ’cause nothing’s as fun as a cold winter’s day

STARE AT THE SNOWMAN FOR 3 SECONDS THEN CLICK ON IT

Pickleball What a Great Sport

There are many reasons why pickleball is GROWING in North America.

It’s fun, friendly, and great exercise.

AND, where I play

DINKS are Welcome on the Pickleball Court

Pickleball What a Great Sport

I Relish Pickleball

A great site for pickleball videos, lessons and clinics is:

http://www.thirdshotsports.com/

Another great site for PICKLEBALL hints is:

http://pickleballhelp.com/

Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements ofbadminton, tennis, and table tennis. Pickleball is a sport in which two or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a perforated polymer ball, similar to a wiffle ball, over a net. The sport shares features of other racquet sports, the dimensions and layout of a badminton court, and a net and rules similar to tennis, with a few modifications. Pickleball was invented in the mid 1960s as a children’s backyard pastime but quickly became popular among adults as a fun game for players of all skill levels. ~wikipedia

Pickleball What a Great Sport

A few Pickleball jokes

A pickleball player is suing the city for not providing the proper facilities for the growing number of pickleball players. He wants to get the city rolling towards a new pickleball facilty.

He may soon get his day in court

Pickleball What a Great Sport

Q? How many pickleball players does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A! What do you mean the bulb was out? It wasn’t out, it was in!

Pickleball What a Great Sport

To err is human. To put the blame on someone else is doubles.

A badminton player, a squash player and a pickleball player decided to stay at a country inn, but when they arrived there, the innkeeper told them he only had 2 beds free, one of them would have to sleep in the barn.
“That’s OK”, said the badminton player, “I`ll sleep in the barn.” So off he went.
A few moments later there was a knock at the inn door. The innkeeper opened the door to see the badminton player who explained that he was unable to sleep in the barn as there was a pig in there, and he could not sleep with a pig.
“That’s OK,” said the squash player. “I’ll sleep there.”
So, off he went. A few moments later there was a knock at the inn door. The innkeeper opened the door to see the squash player there, who explained that he was unable to sleep in the barn as there was a cow in there, and he could not sleep with a cow.
“That’s OK,” said the pickleball player, “I`ll sleep there.” So, off he went. A few moments later there was a knock at the inn door. The innkeeper opened the door to see a cow and a pig standing there.

A bad diller is a poor pickleball server!!

Why did the little pickle love his mother’s cooking?
It was dillicious!

Pickleball It’s a big dill

Pickleball Paddles Well With Others

Check out the following for more Pickleball Fun:

http://pickleballsport.blogspot.ca/

The Church Service Of The Future ……

Hip religion:

 

It’s coming!

 

The Church Service of the Future

 

Date: 17^th June 2014 12.08:34 AEST Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

PASTOR: “Praise the Lord!”

CONGREGATION: “Hallelujah!”

PASTOR: “Will everyone please turn on their tablet, PC, iPad, smart phone, and Kindle Bibles to 1 Cor. 13:13.

And please switch on your Bluetooth to download the sermon.”

P-a-u-s-e……

“Now, Let us pray committing this week into God’s hands. Open your Apps, BBM, Twitter and Facebook, and chat with God”

S-i-l-e-n-c-e

“As we take our Sunday tithes and offerings, please have your credit and debit cards ready.”The ushers will circulate mobile card swipe machines among the worshipers:

“You can log on to the church Wi-Fi using the password ‘Lord909887.’ 

a.. Those who prefer to make electronic fund transfers are directed to computers and laptops at the rear of the church..”You can log on to the church Wi-Fi using the password ‘Lord909887.’ 

b.Those who prefer to use iPads can open them.

c.Those who prefer telephone banking, take out your cell phones to transfer your contributions to
the church account.”

The holy atmosphere of the Church becomes truly electrified as ALL the smart phones, iPads, PCs and laptops beep and flicker!

“Final Blessing and Closing Announcements..

a. This week’s ministry cell meetings will be held on the various Facebook group pages where the usual group chatting takes place. Please log in and don’t miss out.

b. . Thursday’s Bible study will be held live on Skype at 1900hrs GMT. Please don’t miss out.

c. You can follow your Pastor on Twitter this weekend for counseling and prayers

God bless you and have nice day

The Church Service Of The Future ……

A Walk Down Memory Lane

a little walk down memory lane

I bet you remember all of these. 1970’s rotary dial phone