My uncle sent me this in email and I thought it was good enough to share. Thanks Uncle Larry!
The Importance of Walking
Walking can add minutes to your life.
This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.

My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60.
Now he’s 97 years old and we don’t know where he is.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again..

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I’m doing..

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks.
Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word ‘exercise’, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I do have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they’ll say,
‘Well, she looks good doesn’t she.’

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years …… just getting over the hill.
We all get heavier as we get older, because there’s a lot more information in our heads.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

AND

Every time I start thinking too much about how I look, I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine.

Thursday Thunks

1. If you could skywrite anything you wanted, what would it be? ‘Love one another’

2. Did you get drunk at your prom?
Didn’t go to mine. I’ve had other times I had issues, only a couple-I was a good girl.

3. What is your favorite spice to use cooking?
I really like chili powder, but I like oregano, basil, and dill a bunch too.

4. What color is your roof? It’s fairly new and I picked out different tones of brown. I had a neighbor ask where we got it and a neighbor a few doors down copied it on their house.

5. In a land far, far away I grew a garden full of magical plants and flowers, ate chocolate all day and had a gorgeous figure that never went south.

6. In the Miss USA pageant, Miss California was asked; “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?” and her answer was; “Well I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman,” Carrie said to a mix of boos and applause. “No offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think that it should be between a man and a woman.” Do you think that cost her the crown?
No-she said she understood America had the right to chose and she was expressing her opinion. I think people made a mountain out of a molehill. Time to concentrate on the real winner. And I don’t even like beauty pageants that much as they give young girls the wrong impression about what beauty really is.

7. Do you watch Miss USA/Miss America pageants? Not usually. I did more when I was younger as there wasn’t much to watch, plus Miss America was in Atlantic City, near where I lived.

8. Have you ever driven/ridden on a tractor? Not that I recall.

9. For the parents – what cartoon/children show did your child watch obsessively? (Hey, if you aren’t a parent, maybe a niece or nephew…) Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers.

10. If I set a level on your living room floor – would it show that it was level?
I think so.

11. What was the last restaurant you ate at? Easy-took my mom out to eat Tuesday at a place up the road-Generations.

12. What’s the picture on your wall calendar for this month? A watercolor of a bunny surrounded by purple pansies-it’s the Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar

13. Are you superstitious? I have to actually step on a crack or see the #13 more than once-like right now-this is the #13-yikes!

14. If I get into your car and turn on the radio – what type of radio station will I hear? Contemporary pop and rock

15. Would you rather wake up with a snake in your bed or a lizard? I can think of a joke-won’t go there-I hate snakes, so I’ll take a lizard-they don’t bite, do they?

16. Do you think schools have changed at all since the Columbine tragedy 10 years ago? In what ways?
I hope so. I think they all should have metal detectors and maybe make the kids wear I.D. like the teachers and staff do.

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