What I learned last week

1. Increasing age makes one forgetful. That does not equate to dementia. I have spells of forgetfulness. There's just too much in my brain to remember everything.

2. DO NOT do a big work out after a lunch of sausage, peppers & onions, no matter how good they taste and how much you think you're prepared.

3. People who are excited about telling you all about their religious beliefs have (literally) no interest in yours

4. I can play with the White Dog, or I can run with the White Dog. I cannot play AND run with the White Dog simultaneously. The right-sided road rash I have -- which extends from my hip to below my knee -- testifies to that.

5. Remember! If you're making apple sauce, it tastes way better if you use multiple types of apples, no just one variety.

6. W really is a complete and total idiot. He believes his biggest failure is not privatizing Social Security. How quickly he's forgotten the tanking market and economy, the million plus Iraqi's killed because of our invasion of a sovereign nation, our young men & women coming home in body bags or brain damaged because of IED's. Oh, right, don't forget Katrina (hmmm, related to #1?)

7. There's still time to get a bunch of bulbs into the ground for next spring, and the time to plant garlic is after the first hard frost. Also, those damn 4-footed, white tailed locusts have to be stopped from eating the branches and stripping the bark off the trees in my brand new mini-orchard.