As we get older, birthdays are less refreshing and less like a hope for the future. So I thought I might offer you a poem slightly more relevant than the usual love poem. Something to which we can both relate.
A little poem for our future. Together.
But on a good day, on a warm, dry day … suddenly, we feel downright peppy and we can move around just like we used to!
Think Arizona! Think summer without humidity! Thing young because you will always be young to me.
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
76, that’s the spirit! I hope you had a great day. Go Sox, whichever color Sox you are cheering for.
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Thank you, Rich. Thank you for the sentiment and….. the friendship which brightens my life.
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Happy birthday Garry! I can only hope to look that good at 76…. which seems like long odds since I already look like hell at 42!
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42, Squirrel? Is that a FOX News statistic? Thank you the sentiment and the laughter you share through the year.
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Happy Birthday Garry!
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Thanks, Daily. Thanks for remembering.
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May you enjoy this birthday, and all the rest to come Garry! If i had a single malt i’d raise it in your honour, but i don’t so i’ll settle for raising a Port! 😉 Happy Birthday, Sir! 🙂
Here’s to the Spirit of ’76. 😉
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Thanks, Mate. I hope the port was good. I had a lemonade. Vintage ’18, slightly tart.
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’18 was/is a good year for lemonade! 😉
The port was excellent.
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So was the lemonade. Cudda used some “sweetning”.
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And he’s a living legend! Happy Birthday Garry!!
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Thank you, Ms. Elva. Add another year to the legend. You can print it.
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Happy Birthday and a GOOD year to come for you….. Humidity is also my enemy, and we have had our fare share of it already up to now!
You both make a wonderful, beautiful couple. I wish you well, both of you! You look wahayyyy younger than your 76….
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I love the name, Kiki. It has history with me. Thank you so very much for the kind words, Kiki. They put a bounce in my step today.
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And may the arthritis remain at arms length for at least one year, and most of your remaining brain cells stay alert. ✊🥃
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Thanks, Gordon. I’ve told arthritis to keep a respectable distance. As for the brain cells, one can only hope. Thanks, kind sir.
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Garry, I’ve been dealing with PMR for over a year, tapering off the prednisone. Yesterday, as if dealing with shingles weren’t enough, the pain in the both shoulders was back full force and suddenly my hands were very sore. W.C. Fields was right. We don’t use his language anymore, thank goodness, but he was right. Old age ain’t for cowards.
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Gordon, I recently had prednisone for about a week to deal with stuff. It was WONDERFUL. I was climbing stairs, hauling groceries, getting up and down from chairs WITHOUT any ouches or grunts. Then the Prednisone r/x was gone and life returned to normal. (sigh)
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Happy Birthday Garry. Our older daughter has the same birthday – April 7th. She’s getting a chocolate cake.
Leslie
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Wow, Leslie, I hope your daughter had a wonderful birthday. Sending virtual hugs from her birthday kin.
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Thanks Garry, she’ll appreciate that. Hope your birthday was a good one too and hugs to you as well.
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Leslie, my surprise party included a delicious chocolate cake. It was DEEEE-licious but Marilyn and I only had small slices. Sign of our ages. The frosting was finger-licking good.
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That sounds sooooo good. I hope you had a good day Garry.
Leslie
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Happy birthday, Garry!
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Thank you very much for the sentiments. They add to the warmth of the day.
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Really lovely, definitely heartfelt😊🎈
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Indeed — and thank you so very much, Covert. The man was wrong about “April is the cruelest month”.
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iNDEED!
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Many Happy Returns of the Day to you Mr. Garry. May there be a lot more!
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Why, thank you, Ms. Embeecee. We may wager some odds with Vegas about the future.
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Hoping for a warm (not hot), dry summer! Happy birthday to Garry!
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Thank you, Slmret. Looking for that Jimmie Rodgers copy of “The Long, Hot Summer”.
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Happy birthday, Garry! Enjoy this new year. Love the quote!
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Thank you, Evelyne. It’s a great quote and so appropriate as we observe the passing of another birthday.
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I hope you enjoyed your special day, Garry and that Marilyn celebrated you in style:)
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Evelyne, I was given a “surprise” birthday party by Marilyn and our old friends, Ellin and Tom. It was low key and absolutely wonderful. Yes, it WAS a surprise. But they didn’t have enough candles for the cake. Minor issue.
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Happy birthday Garry from me and Mr. Swiss. He doesn’t look a day older than when we first met, online of course.
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(Marilyn on Garry’s computer) — I’m using the same pictures 🙂 But he really doesn’t look his age. I think he feels it, though. He’s still, all things considered, a very healthy guy and he might just make it to 100 yet!
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Thank you, Pat and Marcel. We haven’t aged since meeting on-line. Magic in cyberspace.
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Happy birthday, Garry! Lovely photos, Marilyn.
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(Marilyn on Garry’s computer) — Garry has favorite pictures and he is not happy if I use pictures he doesn’t like. I bow to my mate. But he does look amazingly good. They actually checked his age to make sure he was entitled to a “senior discount” at the grocery store the other day. How cool is that?
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Very cool… I sometimes wish they’d check mine… for anything 😉 (Except at the supermarket where they are obliged to ask for ID unless, according to their sign, the buyer is ‘obviously over age’. I’d quite like to meet the person who write that… 😉 )
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I think Dorian Gray processed the pictures.
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I only complain about pics that show my receding hairline. Yes, I’m so vain.
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Thanks, Sue. Another year for the census people. Had a lovely day with old and new friends.
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I’m glad, Garry 🙂
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Happy Birthday to you, Garry! The correct answer for ‘How do you feel?’ “With my hands. How do you feel” 🙂
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Thank, YOU, Lois. Laughing at the correct answer to “How do you feel?”.
My hands are right as rain.
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Ha! You are a keeper, Garry! Hope you had a great birthday.
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Lois, I did. Thank you. Now, moving on….
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This so-called-Spring is enough to add 30 years on to anyone’s age. I hope warmer, drier seasons are ahead. happy birthday.
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Trent, thank you. A lovely birthday for me. SUNNY and frosty, with old and new friends who made the chill irrelevant.
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Like this. And a Happy birthday to Garry. May you both have a low humidity day!
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Thank you, Sandy. Add another nickle to the nickelodeon.
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