Dick and Jan Shafer, June 14, 2008

Life’s real pleasures often are the simple ones.

Here’s a good recipe: Mix the company of two old friends and burgers on the grill with Jan’s healthful side dishes that resemble a private buffet. Garnish with a toasty campfire and pleasant conversation under a starry sky.

Long-time friends, the Shafer’s, have a permanently installed camper at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park just a bit south of town. With their invitation I plopped my highly mobile camper next door to them for the evening—chuckling at this nifty way to defeat the pain of $4 a gallon gasoline.

My geriatric bedtime came and went that recent evening as reminisces blended delightfully with pondering our mutual gratitude for being able to explore this senior stage of life in good health and with an ample history of joyful experiences.

Thanks Dick and Jan, for sharing your summer digs with me.

Just imagine the percentage of the world’s population that will never experience a bucolic pleasure like ours.

Thanks, indeed!