[Boomer]

Originally Posted by brightspot01

Hmmmm

I'm taken a bit back with "social" cards. I would rather make an impression with whom I am than "advertise".

I hope people find me friendly enough to want to remember me and request a way to stay in touch. Or...I hope I find others friendly enough that I want to remember them and stay in touch. When this is the case, we have always found a way to connect...without so called "social cards".

Don't think this is the way I want to go. Just call me old fashioned, if you want.

I think I am the one who started this card discussion this morning in this thread so I guess I will just go ahead now and run the gauntlet.

I still think it is a really nice gesture. And as far as being old-fashioned goes, to me this seems like a modern version of the Victorian calling card. -- not exactly -- but sort of -- and how old-fashioned is that.

But it's pretty much like everything else in TV: New/Pre-Owned, VLS/MLS, POA/VHA. It all gets worked out.

Now I am going to digress because it is what I do. So tune out if you can't stand it.

I actually find myself wanting to say really grouchy things right now. But I won't. I am grouchy because our roof just started to leak. I had to call Mr. Boomer home from a meeting. It's the chimney flashing. And it is pouring down rain and will do so for the next 24 at least.

I just saved the books on the shelves and the antique picture over the fireplace.

This is not a deluge. It is a seep, seep, plop, plop. But who knows what is to come.

Mr. Boomer is up in the attic now. I had to wrestle him to keep him from going up on the roof. You ladies know how men can be. And have you ever heard the expression, "You can always tell a German, but you can't tell him much." (and his other quarter is Irish.) But I think he's still in the attic.

I am sitting here in the kitchen typing away but really I am eavesdropping, literally, only backwards. I try to take really good care of Mr. Boomer and he is not going to go up on the roof, in the rain, at night.

I know I sound grouchy. But in my heart I am always thankful when the good Lord gives me a problem that can be fixed. So even though it looks like I am saying, "Oh poor Boomer," I really am sitting here counting my blessings. But one of them is NOT GOING TO GO UP ON THE ROOF. IN THE DARK. IN THE POURING RAIN.