Remembering getting harder by the day

This getting a day older every day is getting to be a real problem.

I may be in denial but I think I have a reasonably good memory for the most part, but I keep hearing about how older people getting absent minded or, goodness forbid, creeping toward Alzheimer's.

I begin this column today because just a few minutes ago I sat down to start my computer with a great idea about what to write about and, for the life of me, it has left my mind. I cannot remember what it was.

Just as the computer started humming, it takes my overloaded CPU several minutes to fully come on, my pretty wife (PW) came into the room yelling, "Look what I found in our laundry."

She handed it to me, and since my eyes had not adjusted to the lighting I touched it and it felt like it was a fishing lure.

I grabbed my glasses and looked closer with better lighting and saw it was a dried up lizard, of which we seem to have an overabundance of in the house recently.

I threw it into the trash and turned back to start this column and my mind went blank.

The great idea would not present itself again. So now I will go back out of the room and come back in again, hoping that whatever it was will again pop into my old head.

That did not work.

Water, water, we need water

Last Thursday, the front page of Highlands Today had an article about wells going dry, especially the shallow ones.

Most wells in my area of Sun 'N Lakes, Lake Placid, are deep wells and there does not seem to be a problem.

What is a problem is the lake level being as low as it was last year, and getting lower each day.

SWFWMD has us on a watering schedule that should be enforced more stringently. Many times as we drive out of the area, we can see owners of beautiful, green, grass lawns violating the required schedule. I think we should report these violators to the proper authorities. I want to warn those who water out of the schedules, I will be taking photographs.

I know that our rainy season is just a few weeks away and that the lakes may rise to their normal levels, but I say "may."

This lowering has happened for the past two to three years and may continue to get worse, especially if the rainy season does not materialize as is forecast.

Without any doubt whatsoever, our lakes are refreshed by and also drain into the subterranean water table, and when the table is several feet lower than the lake, the lake drains to that level. There is also a real possibility of sink holes developing.

None of the above was what I originally had in mind. I think?

Now I remember what I originally wanted to tell about was; I have film cameras almost 100 years old that still can take good photographs.

I do not have a single digital camera older than five years that is usable; when they break, they stay broke. More next week.