Happy Birthday to the Common-Law Mrs. Codger, Who Is Good Enough to be My Wife

Good morning this Saturday, dear readers. Well, the big day is finally here: The common-law Mrs. Codger’s birthday. Now I’m not going to divulge her true age, so I’ll stick with the age that she likes to say she is: 49. “Happy 49^th birthday, Mrs. Codger” (I will tell her that in person so that she won’t find out about this “lifestyle column”).

As I predicted, I decided to get her some of her favorite perfume, Triangle Perfume. After all that flooding, I had to rush out yesterday and pick some up at the store. We’re also going out to an intimate dinner at that expensive Starbucks café they just opened. Never tried it before, but I’ve heard about it. They say they have food and coffee, and the coffee is their specialty. And they’d better have dancing there. What kind of nicer restaurant doesn’t have dancing?

In honor of the missus’s birthday, I’d like to dedicate this musical video to her that I found on the YouTube video search engine. It’s  a song by the very beautiful country music singer Jeannie C. Riley called “Good Enough To Be Your Wife”, because, like the song says, the common-law Mrs. Codger is good enough to do my cooking and good enough to be my wife.

Until next time!

Ahoy,

The Codger

Exemplary Codgers: Kenny Rogers

Hello again, and welcome. Before I head outside to harvest some lettuce from my victory garden, I’ve opted to give you another Exemplary Codger to contemplate and emulate during those peaceful little moments between doing things: country singer Kenny Rogers.

But Kenny Rogers wasn’t always the socially-acceptable codger we have all come to know and love. Not by a long shot. During my research, I unearthed evidence that seems to suggest he was once a full-blooded hippie, fronting a hippie band and making all sorts of nonsense hippie music videos and singing hippie nonsense lyrics:

Yes, I am as stunned as the rest of you. I never would have suspected Kenny Rogers of being the hippie type. Yet despite this adverse upbringing, he sorted himself out and became the respectable country music celebrity this lifestyle column can get behind, the kind that makes sensible music videos with other respectable singers like Dolly Parton, founder of Dollywood (the more responsible alternative to Hollywood):

Did you notice Kenny’s choice of lumberjack’s attire and codgerly gray beard? I’m sure you’ll agree that they’re a big improvement over his hippie days. Kenny Rogers: Living proof that it’s never too late to abandon the hippie lifestyle in favor of greener pastures.

Until next time!

Ahoy,

The Codger