I’LL BE BACK LATER

Who knew at the age of 78 there would be too much to do and not enough hours in the day to do it in.  With a part time job, a big old house and  animals to take care of (and a husband who helps a lot) Savvy Over 70 is going to become intermittent and not weekly.  You don’t have to be over 70 to log onto this site.  Savvy Over 70 is me.  I’ve been around a long time and have picked up general info which might be of help to those coming up after me.  So I’m still here dreaming up more stuff to talk about.  Talk to you later.

Joan

SPRING CLEANING AND GLAD OF IT!

Spring cleaning to me means cleaning up the outside.  The inside can wait.  It’s been  an unrelenting cold and snowy winter here beside Lake Ontario.  Today the temperature was 73 degrees.  The first time it’s been above 70 since October 13th of 2013.  Our old house here is 180 years old.  I’m sure it’s seen colder winters than this one but it’s hard to imagine.

 We have 2 big Labrador Retrievers who eat a lot and the resulting dog- do tends to accumulate under layers of snow in the back yard.  When spring comes it’s an amazing sight and does require a strong stomach to clean up. 
I put seeds out for the birds and squirrels and I guess raccoons, too.  I found a baby raccoon that had fallen out of the big old tree that’s full of cozy holes for critters.  He was a cute, fuzzy little fellow but unfortunately I wasn’t able to save the little critter.

Layers of ice and snow and ice and snow piled up on one of the back roofs.  And the icicles were a wonder to behold.  

We are a stoic bunch up here but as the winter dragged on it became easier to understand why folks in the far north countries tend to drink a lot.  Bars and obscure poetry readings became more popular than usual.

Our saving grace up here was the realization that some regions of the country had it worse than we did.  We’re used to snow measured in feet and know that sooner or later those crocuses will show up.

Today the front yard is full of purple crocuses!

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Joan

THE FUNNIES

Seventy years ago-in the 1940s- we used to refer to  newspaper comic strips as the “funnies.” I don’t know if that was a family thing or maybe just an Ohio expression. The “funnies” were a standard feature in almost every major American newspaper except the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.  Before television arrived on the scene the funnies were a major source of amusement and everyone had their favorites.

When I was 10, I would wait down by the mailbox for the afternoon’s edition of the Canton Repository.  RED RYDER was the big attraction for me.

I don’t recall what Terry looked like of TERRY AND THE PIRATES but I was fascinated by the Dragon Lady’s outfits.  When I was 12 she was the epitome of chic!

GASOLINE ALLEY, LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE AND POPEYE were “before my time” and they didn’t hold my interest.

The lush illustrations in PRINCE VALIANT caught me as a young adult.  The cartoonist was big on historical details and it made for fascinating reading. The first comic strip I recall reading where people got older.

DAGWOOD has been around since 1933.The guy never ages and seems to entertain generation after generation.

I still like the funnies but read them only occasionally now.  They were a major part of my growing up.  Books are my reading now.

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