What?? That can't be true!

[cozmik_cowboy]

The Lovely And Charming Mrs. Cowboy says that She had a lot more trouble turning 39 than 40 (we won't go into how She's handling 69.....).

Me?  I'm kind of freaking that our youngest is 39 today.


Peter

[lbpesq]

I never turned 40.   I spent the entire year contending that I was celebrating the first anniversary of my 39th birthday.   After all, didn’t Jack Benny remain 39 for several decades?

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

I never turned 40.   I spent the entire year contending that I was celebrating the first anniversary of my 39th birthday.   After all, didn’t Jack Benny remain 39 for several decades?

Bill, tgo

My mom was born in 1932.  When she died in 2020, she was 29......

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

In spite of the inherent, and ongoing health issues, my parents seem to be enjoying their late-70's early-80's. I think they get some degree of satisfaction in watching the five of us offspring struggling through our 40's and 50's, some with little knucklehead kids of their own.


Happy Birthday to your youngest, Coz. My Granny Huncote would have been 103 today... tough ol bird, she was.

[cozmik_cowboy]

In spite of the inherent, and ongoing health issues, my parents seem to be enjoying their late-70's early-80's. I think they get some degree of satisfaction in watching the five of us offspring struggling through our 40's and 50's, some with little knucklehead kids of their own.


Happy Birthday to your youngest, Coz. My Granny Huncote would have been 103 today... tough ol bird, she was.

My dad's 92; frail, can't walk, many ailments, slipping mentally.
I look at him think about how it's less than 10 years since he was playing bascketball 3 times a week and dominating the church softball league.
Then I look at how broken down I am at 68, and think "92?  No thank you very much, please"......

And (he being an historian like his dad) I tend to call the lad and wish a happy anniversary of the Haymarket Riot, and/or the Kent State murders.

Peter