busy taken it easy

My brother once told me he didn’t know when he found the time to work. I think I’m getting the idea of what he was talking about. Most folks think all you do once you retire is sit and do nothing. For me that is far from what I do. I have thought just keep a blog of what you do and you can take care of that on a daily basis for something to fill in time. Wow is that ever a joke. Filling in time is something I don’t have to worry about. I can’t even keep a blog going as often as I would like to. Don’t get me wrong I’m not slaving away like a dog but I do stay busy. Last week uncle Norman passed away (Robert’s Uncle) He was a fine man and loved by many and had the respect of the community. Norman chose to be a farmer and he did work hard at it. I was amazed when he told me that when he was in the army he saved all of the money he made and this was during WWII. His wife worked in a five and dime and she also saved all of the money she made. When Norman got out of the army they had enough money to buy a small farm in Alabama. Working on a shoe string things were not easy for Norman so he had to do a lot of things by hand and fix things himself when they broke down. Norman wore many hats during his farmer days and not only did he farm but he was also a repairman that could fix just about anything that broke. He was a Husband to a lovely wife and a father. He was more than that he was also a uncle that loved his nieces and nephews and would do anything to help them along in life. Norman would treat himself to deer hunting in the fall because it was one of the things he always enjoyed. I don’t blame him for that myself, I also like to hunt for many reasons and the best one I can think of it takes you a bit closer to God. When you are out sitting in the woods by yourself you have a lot of time to think and reflect on life. To be honest I don’t think I ever started living till I retired and can enjoy the time I do have. Living and working in the city is just not fun at all. Too much dirt way to many stupid laws and fines. When I was living in Illinois I felt like I had another hand in my pocket all of the time taking money I needed to live on. I can understand the need for rules and laws but to me it would make more sense to have builders make wider streets so you can get a fire engine down the street with cars parked on both sides of the street. They didn’t even think about it they let the builders do what they wanted and made laws to work around the stupidity of it all and the residents of the community have to suffer by paying large fines for parking on the wrong side of the street. Well all of that is in the past and that is where it is going to stay. I park my truck where ever I want to but most of the time I park it in the same place to make it easy on others. Now here is the cool part if I want to have a yard sale all I need to do is pound a sign into the ground and have on it yard sale and sit and wait. Kind of like hunting and fishing and you get to meet some nice folks at the same time. Yesterday started out with a trip to the store not just any old store this was a store for hunting and fishing goodies. I thought to myself this has to be as close to heaven as you are going to get on earth. Only bad part is you have to pay for stuff. I found a real nice fishing rod and I was all set to buy it till the sales man told me it would cost me $159. I put it back on the rack and started looking at other ones. Ted told me if you want a rod get one of these and showed me one that was made by Fuji and it was only $40 and it was a $100 rod. I thought that was more to my liking. I never in my life thought that I would have more than one rod but that is a joke. Sometimes you are fishing with a worm and then you want to use a different bait you just pick up a different rod with that bait on it and keep on fishing. Most of the time I only use 2 different kinds of bait so I only need 2 rods, the one I never change is the one with the spinner bait on it. The other one I use worms, top water baits or deep water baits. I was looking at the cost of baits yesterday and just about choked. I guess there is a reason I use worms a bunch.