Glory Bee Attitudes

How did this child of the sixties turn 60? How did it happen that I got to sixty?  I'm grateful that I am here, of course.  I have a wonderful life and I know the greatness of God.  I live with many reminders of how I've been blessed with family and friends and health. I guess most everyone who ages has some similar take on this.  I like to think we Baby Boomers are unique because we were so unique back then.  We changed the world, right?  Or at least our world.  Our generation, after all, affected many changes in society. Some of them were good. Some of them were bad.  But we didn't just sit idly by or expect that our parents would hand us everything. In fact, things weren't as much of an issue for us. So now that I'm sixty I am asserting the right to speak like an old fogey.  I've seen those lists online of things that were true in the fifties and sixties so I'm adding a few of my own. Today we say "back in the day" but back in the day...

Boy did it rain this weekend! We had some flooding in the basement. It just kept pouring and pouring and it was coming down harder and harder and our gutters and drains couldn't keep up with it. I've heard up people having water up to their ankles or knees in storms like this so I guess we were blessed to be able to get it sopped up with towels (although we did use every available towel). I thought of the people in Texas, many with no homes and a lot with no power so we cannot complain. We were supposed to have a backyard barbecue as a birthday party for a friend. We abandoned that thought with the rains and decided we'd go to plan B. We would eat inside but cook outside. The rains didn't stop as early as planned. Lloyd didn't want to be running back and forth with an umbrella flipping burgers so we went to plan C. We'll use the nice open basement that we have. Then came the flooding. Plan D. Everyone upstairs. Very cozy. Lots of good fun. Less people showed bec...