My Journey Through The Decades.

@SIMPLYD Thanks for those kind words

@jaboUK Welcome . You truly deserve them .

@SIMPLYD , let us hope friend we will reach the golden age,

@marguicha You are so right - we must concentrate on what we can do, not what we can't any more

@jaboUK we have to concentrate on our present. That is correct.Peace is there to stay not war.

@jaboUK Every day now I discover yet another thing I cant do. Most of the times, I don´t want to do it either

@Juliaacv Thank you Julia, I'm flattered that you read it to your husband. Glad you are still nifty

@amadeo Lol - not true I'm afraid, but it's kind of you to say so Alfredo.

@cacay1 Lol - not any more - that photo is 56 years old

@jaboUK , That is true, you are so lovely and cutie.

@Daljinder I'm lucky to have had a good life, and to still be enjoying it. Thanks

I'm happy to have amused you @miniam thank you

@miniam I don't know about you, but when I was young I never thought I was good-looking. Looking back at the photos I can see that I wasn't too bad, but I didn't appreciate it at the time. They do say that youth is wasted on the young. Anyway, thank you for being so kind, but though I am in reasonable shape for my age, the good looks have long gone. It doesn'tbother me.

@jaboUK Did i mention you were and still are a beauty even if the wolf whistles have stopped?

@much2say Yes, there's been a lot of water under the bridge! I can't remember what I was thinking when the photo was taken - my Dad took the shot. Thanks for your sweet remarks.

@jaboUK Yes I had to say it.Can we know who took that photo?

@silvermist My father took it,

Thank you @silvermist , that's a sweet thing to say even if someone beat you to it

@jaboUK oh those birth certificates, maybe we can pay them to go lost!! lol

@BelleStarr

@BelleStarr I probaly could still ride, but the hips might protest a bit. Lol - I don't feel ancient, but the birth certificate tells the true story

@jstory07 Thank you Judy, and I don't think I will ever lose my love of life. I've enjoyed every age I've been, including this one

@Ceerios Those years must have done just that and melted away, if you call me 'young lady'

@Ceerios I've seen that site mentioned here too, and the fact that it gets the thumbs up from you is encouraging. I doubt that I'd have the time for another site, but I may take a look. That's interesting about turning the photos over, very ingenious. Glad the e-book is progressing.

@jaboUK - Ms Janet - Right-on, Good Friend. I suppose that I will now have to look through all of my old files here to see if I can find the photo someone made of me when I was back in the first grade in school - dressed up like a "Tyrolian" kid with "lederhosen" and a peaky cap with a feather stuck onto it. I will see what I can do about that. Finally got this computer deal back onto the Internet after its troubles of the last day or two. Turned out that the phone company connections to this old house had corroded to the point where the signals would just not traverse them. (And I had believed that the company was angry with me for being late paying my bill last month,,,) Saw a post here on the MyLot that mentioned another posting website, Niume. Went there and saw that the contents were mostly very interesting and also very categorized - probably ten different "spheres," as they call them. Looked at some. really fun looking. Give Niume.com a try when you have time. It is HQd in the UK, so maybe it is right around the corner from your own location. Which gave rise to a thought just now that I had about photos. You know how I like to play games with pictures of ordinary stuff, but lots of the results of that playing cause my pix to be unrecognizable as to the original source photos. Then I remembered that the little Canon color printer here will make pix on both sides of the photographic paper - like the original on one side and the crazy stuff on the other side. Get tired of looking at one? Just turn it over. That way both p;ix can be twice the size of the two pix being portrayed as a collage on one side of the paper. Better detail that way. Enough of this inventing and other kinds of venting. Grow young - but not fat. My advice for the day. -Gus- Making some progress on my e-Book project. Let you know when there is a copy ready for you and the rest of the world.

@franxav Sweet of you to say that, but a woman in her 70s can hardly qualify as beautiful. I'm satisfied that I wasn't bad-looking when I was young. Thank you anyway.

@jaboUK you are beautiful in your heart and spirit and that is more important.

@franxav What a lovely thing to say, thank you.

@responsiveme Lol - thanks for not agreeing with that line, but I'm afraid it's true. I don't feel it though. Thanks for liking the revelations as well as the photo.

@Happy2BeMe I'm pleased that you enjoyed the poem, thank you, and thanks for being so complimentary about the photo.

Yes, she ia so beautiful and charming @jabo.

@jaboUK You are welcome

Ahh but lasses do get jealous now don't they @jaboUK ?

@rebelann I don't know about that - I was more interested in horses than fellas

@rebelann Nope, those days are gone (if they were ever here!)

@Tampa_girl7 Thank you

@Tampa_girl7

@jaboUK you must have been beating the boys off with a broom

@sueznewz2 Thanks Sue - as one of the two people on this site who know me in real life, would you have known that the photo was of me? It's so long ago

@sueznewz2 That's fine - I don't think I'd recognise myself if I didn't know!

@jaboUK no sorry Janet ...I wouldn't have..., but i'm going to tell maggs to read your post and have a look at the photo...as she is quite good at recognising people from old photos...

@DeborahDiane Thank you Deborah, you are always so kind about my poems. I do appreciate it.

@jaboUK - Your poems always make me smile.

@DianneN Lol - I don't think I'll ever be old in my head Dianne and I don't think you will be either. Hope you and your husband are doing ok

@DianneN I'm really sorry to hear that your husbands arms aren't improved. I should think the stress of it has contributed to your own sickness, I hope you both feel better soon. I'm glad that your son has been there for you.

@VivaLaDani13 Thanks for being so appreciative of my efforts Dani, I tried to put my life in a nutshell for this one

@jaboUK No worries.