Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 08, 2023

Yours too, Gary?

Gary had a hand in the mutiny

hope that part doesn’t include foul smell

Dang! That looks like a rather important part! Hard to scratch that itch now, isn’t it Gary?

My body is done giving up on small parts and has moved on to the large ones.

Hope that wasn’t the one that predicts a change in the weather!

A little neuropathy here, a little more there, that’s how it starts.

Oh man, I know that feeling. This week it’s my left heel?

Hopefully his nose is next!!!

We are the thumbs that go Ping!

I can relate to this. Everything was going quite fine until at my, umm, age I decided to go back to tennis. In a pretty big way. Ouch.

That would be my knees.

Too true to be very funny.

This so reflects getting older! Spot-on Jerry!

Gary: “I object!”

Body: “Overruled!”

Bodies tend to do that as one gets older.

Gary bids farewell to the greatest lover he ever knew.

Hate when that happens..

The pings are bad enough but the pongs! OY!!

Good morning Balladeers!

It happens. Death by a thousand cold cuts.

The end of warranty of body parts sucks.

Not funny! Not so much, now that i’m there.

That’s the sound his knuckle made when Dupuyen’s Disease kicked in. I would have heard mine, but I didn’t have my hearing aids in. lol

It seems to me that our longer life span is now pushing our moving parts past the manufacturer’s warranty plan.

Gary can only look on with resignation. His days are like a ping pong game, with parts pinging at the speed of light some days.