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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Well, here it was once again, eight o'clock and still light, wanting  
the girls to be locked up so I could be done for the night, and of  
course they were still out pecking half-heartedly at weeds and dirt.  
So I said, okay, let's do as Marie suggested and get some light in  
that henhouse so they will get their red butts in there before dark.  
So out I go to attend to it and, of course, there it was already, the  
light system I had installed over twenty years ago for just that  
purpose. Sigh. And the bulb even still worked. Double sigh.

It is fortunate at such times that one's children and grandchildren do  
not witness the dropped jaw, the crossed and glazed eyes, the head  
shake, the aw, sh--t, all of which signals that their parent/ 
grandparent has really lost it.

You youngsters just have no idea what you have to look forward to.