Monday, June 13, 2011

A few quotes

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
- Lucille Ball

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
- Henry Ford

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
- Mark Twain

“No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
- Victor Hugo

“The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
- Oscar Wilde

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”
- Ogden Nash

“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
- Bob Hope

1st McCoy

Slowly getting there - still a lot more to go!

Sunday, June 5, 2011

One more

One more Biswell - now on to McCoy

Weeding at Heather's house


Went to the Quad Cities Campus Friday- these are from the tour of the new Riverfront building.






Went straight from work to help Heather weed.


This is what we started with



And this is how we ended







Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Hummingbirds

Saw my first hummer at the feeder this morning! I was worried that I wouldn't get any in town. Love to watch them! I'll be putting more feeders out tonight.

As far as the scale goes - 166.0 this morning - I really need to stop THINKING about tae bo and start DOING it.