Hey there, cats and kittens!  Hope you are all enjoying this wondering end-of-winter weather we’re having.

I was just thinking about all those little signs that tell you that you are getting older.

If you don’t have any idea who the musical guest on Saturday Night Live is, you might be a geezer.

If you remember every lyric to songs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but you can’t remember why you walked upstairs, you might be a geezer.

If you remember freaking out when your first mortgage payment was over $200 a month, you might be a geezer.

If you were born and raised in Sullivan County and attended the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair, you might be a geezer.

If you remember riding in a school bus equipped with tire chains in winter, you might be a geezer.

If you remember seeing the seminarians at St. Joseph’s Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon walking around the pond in the evening saying the Rosary, you might be a geezer.

If you remember when the Seminary was a seminary, you might be a geezer.

If you remember the Upper Delaware Campgrounds in Callicoon, you might be a geezer.

If you remember when the Concord and Grossinger’s were the height of class and filled with guests, you might be a geezer.

If you remember when the World Series was played in September, you might be a geezer.

If you remember slathering your hair in Dippity-doo and sleeping in curlers, you might be a geezer.

If you remember when you had to know if your license plate had an even or odd number so that you could get gas, you might be a geezer.

If your first brand-new car cost less than $5,000, you might be a geezer.

If your family could afford to live on one salary, you might be a geezer.

If you remember when there were two grocery stores and four places to purchase clothing in downtown Callicoon, you might be a geezer.

If you remember the Callicoon Youth Center before Hermann Hall was built, you might be a geezer.

If you remember lying out in the sun before sunscreen existed, you might be a geezer.

If the first three numbers of your birth year are 195 or 194, you might be a geezer.

If your physician asks you to remember 3 words, you might be a geezer.

If you had to wear scratchy crinolines under your dresses, you might be a geezer.

If girls weren’t allowed to wear pants to school when you were a kid, you might be a geezer.

If your world history syllabus ended with the Viet Nam War, you might be a geezer.

If your mom ever gave you a home perm, you might be a geezer.

Some of you may be thinking that “geezer” sounds like a derogatory term.  You may be correct.  Kinder terms include “golden ager”, “vintage”, or “extremely mature.” In any event, if you could identify with any of the descriptors above, face it, honey, you’re old.