By Susan Shanklin

Happy birthday to me! Yes today is my birthday and for once in a very long time I’m happy about it!

The other day a lady asked me how old I was going to be on my birthday and I said, “65!” She said, “Well, I’m going to be 83, so I don’t buy green bananas any more!

It took me a second to put two and two together, and I started to make a plan to buy some GREEN bananas!

It still makes my head shake to think about avoiding life. God surely didn’t stamp you out with an expiration date.

The longest living woman in Minnesota, Anna Stoehr, just died at the age of 114. I bet you a nickel there were green bananas on her side table! NOW her family will have ripe bananas!

Be fruitful to the very end!

I usually don’t have this many explanation points in one article,  especially on a very frosty, bone chilling day as today. I think it feels like -23 out. I guess Tom is doing chores today. Ha Ha.

Today, I’m going to enjoy the nose-hair-chilling air when I go outside. I’m going to enjoy picking up Ella’s dog hair sprinkled across the kitchen, dining room, and living room. Today, I’m going to enjoy the thoughts of my children and grand babies.

I’m going to be happy today because my God has been sooooooooo good to me and my household. I live in a free country, I get to vote, I get to go to church, I get to go to the thrift store and browse everyone’s casts offs. Only to see and enjoy what was once old become new “to me.”

Tom spoke yesterday in Ruthton, Minnesota about how the two things on the side of his head weren’t garbage cans. Ha Ha, I thought. No garbage cans on my head either.

I live and serve a good God and I’m going to use this day to put a smile on God’s face and whom ever wants to crack their face with one too.

Get thee behind me Satan. It’s Susan’s Birthday and she will rejoice in it.