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21st Nov 2024
Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Dr, You can call me Dennis. Nice to meet a real Dr when I’m not sick.ViewDate:
18th Oct 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi dr, How very nice to meet you. The weather is cool in Kansas. I’ve been using the wood stove to heat the house. I haven’t turned the propane on yet. The cats love to sit in front of the fire. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. DennisViewDate:
7th Oct 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Planter, I’m male, 71. I live in Kansas, The Land of Oz. I’m far from Chesterfield, but at least I don’t smoke. I hope you had a nice weekend. DennisViewDate:
7th Oct 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
I'd love a pen pal..Hi Jo, I’ll be your pen pal. I live in Kansas USA. i’m widowed, and have two kitties (Star and Luna) and a Great Pyrenee named “Happy “ to keep me company.. I live on an isolated farm, so the loneliness seems enhanced by the coyotes howling. I can use a pen pal too. Or a pal of any kind. DennisViewDate:
27th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Suzz1…I have a granddaughter living in Missouri. And a great-granddaughter. She and her husband live on a farm in the southwestern part of the state. Fall is coming. The nights are getting cool. I hope the trees are pretty in your area. I used to love seeing the trees in Arkansas in the fall. Fiery red. And beautiful.ViewDate:
25th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withThank you Kim. I’m sorry about your husband’s condition, and I commend you for your positive outlook. I can’t find a lot of things to be positive about. I suppose depression is part of it. And being isolated doesn’t help. I promised Alisa I would care for our kitties, Star and Luna. And I have a Great Pyrenee named Happy who is 12 years old and needs me. The three of them are my family now….the family I live with. It’s funny you mentioned I should take a day “to do those jobs Alisa would have done.” I thought the same thing after I wrote the letter on the 13th of Sep. I asked myself why I insisted on wallowing in self-pity. I painted the west porch floor last Friday, and am starting to repair the east porch floor this week. Maybe tomorrow I’ll tackle the barn swallow nests. The saddest part of my life is the teahouse. It was an “every summer evening adventure” for Alisa and I for many years. We both loved music. We took our phones and Bluetooth speakers out there every night, often listening and talking until midnight. Everything just feels so empty now. Everything is quiet. No one knows or cares about how Alisa and I spent our summer evenings. Except me. I’m considering moving to get away from the memories. Thank you for talking. DennisViewDate:
19th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withGood luck with your knee surgery tomorrow…you can do it!ViewDate:
14th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Suzz1, Thank you for writing. Good luck with your knee surgery. Are you getting a knee replacement? My brothers have both had knee replacement surgery, and two sisters in law as well. They recovered well, and are glad they did it. My hip replacement went well also. I had it done at the VA Hospital in Omaha (I’m a retired US Army soldier). Getting old is not for the faint of heart. I spent yesterday cleaning out the she-shed. Painting the concrete floor of the she-shed was the last project Alisa planned. She bought the paint in summer 2022, but didn’t feel well enough to do it. This should have clued me in that something was wrong, but it didn’t. She never started a project without finishing it. On January 25, 2023 she was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. She died on March 4, 2023…five days before her 62nd birthday. We were married 25 years. I promised her I would care for our kitties Star and Luna, so my life these days revolves around them. I hope your surgery goes well. The 19th—next Thursday— I’ll be thinking about you. DennisViewDate:
13th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi again, Please forgive me for writing again. John Prine wrote in a song, “Everybody needs somebody that they can talk to.” As I age alone on this farm his words are so prophetic it sends shivers down my spine. Yes, I have four grown children, twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren. They are scattered to the winds, but I do communicate regularly with several of them. I have four brothers and two sisters still living. We are all elderly, and suffer from various ailments. Cancer (which took my lovely Alisa) has invaded two of my brothers. A third is on dialysis and the fourth has had heart surgery, although he has recovered well. I’m lucky in that a hip replacement has been my only ailment. Father Time has worked his magic on my immediate family. It is our turn. Or soon will be. As I sit on this porch with not a car or person in sight I realize how living in this isolated spot in the world has governed my relationships with my family. While Alisa was alive it wasn’t a big deal. She loved the isolation, and she loved taking care of the house and the porches. I built her a teahouse for our twentieth anniversary. We sat out there many summer nights with a glass of wine and listened to music. The teahouse has been empty since she died. I haven’t painted the porch floors since she died. I haven’t cared enough to do it. The barn swallows tried to build nests and left splotches of mud on the porch ceiling. Alisa would never stand for such things, and would insist on cleaning the mud off. I can’t bring myself to care. Thanks for talking to me. Everybody needs somebody that they can talk to. DennisViewDate:
13th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
NewcomerHi Anabloom, Nice to meet you. I’m lonely too. My wife passed on March 4, 2023. I was lost, and so lonely. I flew to Bali, Indonesia to meet a woman I met on a penpal app. I invited her to come to my farm in Kansas. She came on December 5, 2023. We got married on February 14, 2024. After six very violent months of marriage I filed for divorce on August 31 and took out a protection order against her. I would rather be lonely than locked into a violent marriage. All I can say is that I miss my lovely wife so much. I made a mistake because I didn’t know how to be alone. Thank you for listening. DennisViewDate:
13th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Again FelineFriend, I live on 10 acres, and grow a huge garden. My tomatoes did very well this year. I give most of them away, and have run out of friends that want them. My wife passed on March 4th, 2023. This is not such a good place to live alone. It was wonderful when there were two of us, and I wasn’t prepared to be by myself. It has been hot, and very dry here in Kansas for many weeks. The real farmers worry about their corn and soybean yields. I wish you could mail some of that cool weather to Kansas. I’ll trade you some tomatoes for it.ViewDate:
12th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
New here so just wanting to say hello to all.Hi Kansas, I’m from Kansas too.. John Prine, singer-songwriter, said in a song, “Everybody needs somebody that they can talk to.” I love my kitties Star and Luna, and I love my dog Happy. But they can’t talk. Nice to meet you! DennisViewDate:
12th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
PenpalDear Sarah, I hope this letter finds you and yours well. It is hot and dry here on the farm in Kansas. I take comfort that winter will soon be here, with cooler temperatures and hopefully some moisture. The corn will soon be harvested. Soybeans have been hurt by drought, but there is still a crop to be harvested. I won’t bore you with personal details. I am committed to never ask a pretty girl to waste their time on me. But I do like to write. I don’t think I can do any harm by writing you a letter. Yours truly, DennisViewDate:
12th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
So what's yours?John Prine, John Hiatt, James McMurtry, Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Justin Townes Earle, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, So many more…I love singer-songwritersViewDate:
11th Sep 2024 Dennis71 commented on:
Hello - looking for like minded friends to chat withHi Feline Friend…I’m 71 and live with my two best friends—my Star and my Luna. The three of us live with my rescue Great Pyrenee dog Happy. We live in an old farmhouse on an acreage in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. Nice to meet you!
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