Retirement Community

I would like to thank everyone who left their

kind comments on my blog yesterday when I

was feeling so blue.

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The blogospere is a wonderful giving community where we share our good days and our not so good days.

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Today I want to share a joke that I probably first heard some twenty years ago.

It still makes me laugh today because of the mental picture that I get every time I see or hear the ending of the joke.

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It seems there was an old pirate living in the Black Flag Pirate Retirement Community who was being interviewed by the new, young house doctor.

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The old pirate was your typical pirate, peg leg, hook for a hand and a patch over one eye.

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The young doctor was trying to get his medical history.

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"Well," says the pirate; "We was bombarding this Spanish fort when this cannonball hits me ship and blasts off me leg."

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"And the hand?" asks the doctor.

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The pirate says, "I tell you sonny, we had boarded this fine ship and there was fighting going on all around. This mate I was battling was pretty good and he made a lucky swipe with his sword and took me hand clean off."

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"OK," said the doctor; "How about your eye?"

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"Well," said the pirate; "I was standing on the deck one day when a seagull flew down and pooped in me eye."

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"Wait a minute," said the young doctor. "Do you expect me to believe that you lost your eye because some bird pooped in it?

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" Well," said the old pirate; "It was the first day with me new hook!"

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Bear((( )))