Musings on a Small Life

I was walking home yesterday afternoon, along one of the streets in our general neighbourhood, and saw what looked, from a distance, to be a giant inflatable penguin. I did a double take, but it was only as I got closer that I could make out it was two people in black jackets standing at the end of one driveway, with the tail end of a silver/light grey car in the driveway behind them.  Is this a sign I should be wearing my prescription glasses? The ones I bought at Costco last summer but don't wear, because the progressive lenses make me feel ill? :-D Anyway, a happy birthday to my step-dad, who is 85 today.  Pic (you've seen) from last November, when I visited Mom I remember calling him last year for his birthday, when he still was living at their (former) home, and thinking that he wouldn't live to see 85. But being ornery and contrary, he's made it! Mom always says he'll outlive us all, and you know, she might be right.  :-) Happy birthday, H...

Or maybe I should write the "mature lady" look.  :-) I had a hair cut today and had the length whacked off, so I can grow my hair back into its usual bob. (I'd tried something different in April that did not work.) So I hope that by the end of the summer my hair will be chin length again. I didn't do anything to the pic except auto colour adjust and "clone" out the spider plant sprouting out behind my head. And while it's very rare for me to allow a face-on pic, I wanted to show the glasses. You know, the ones I'm not wearing very much, because they're so hard to adjust to. *** Update on Harry: He had a "major" mini-stroke (TIA), not a full on stroke, apparently. His speech has been affected and his cognitive abilities significantly impaired. He spent a day or two thinking he was in Newfoundland, then somewhere in the U.S. I'm not sure where he thinks he is today. Poor Harry. He'll be in the hospital for 2 - 3 weeks ...

I had my eye appointment today and the upshot is that yep, I need glasses. Progressive glasses, meaning essentially bifocals without the lines, or so I assume. Progressive , to be politically correct and not acknowledge we're an aging society. As this will be my first pair of prescription glasses, I'll get them locally, probably at Costco's optical centre. Future pairs can be ordered more cheaply online, when I know what I'm doing. I told the doctor that I'd have been disappointed if I hadn't needed a prescription, given how much I find my vision has deteriorated over the past handful of years.  :-D Otherwise all looked fine, my eyes are healthy, no sign of disease or macular degeneration, etc., thank goodness! So I'm looking forward to becoming progressive! LOL!