I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas.....  

This will be my first ever RETIRED summer, sorta.
Yes, I am still working maybe 24 hours a week, but it is mostly my call.
I can arrange to not work, if the fishing is good  

I am just about done remodeling the inside of the house for guest FINALLY.
Then I get to work outside landscape, etc.....
Going to build a new "outbuilding" for all the clutter I took from out of the house, that my wife has NEVER used, but will not get rid of....
And the boat is all ready for guest to go catch salmon and crabs.
Going to be a real Holiday Inn this summer  

So cool, can't wait to share my piece of heaven with family and friends.
Just a "side note" to show you what I mean.
I shared about my only brothers passing last month, right before Christmas on his birthday.
Well my brother had "another" family, 3 children and a wife, his first marriage....
Things got real ugly, and he left them, I really got in his face, BIG TIME over that bullsheet....
She remarried, he wasn't paying his support, so he gave his kids to another man, BUTTHEAD!
They were 1 years old, 3, and 4, years old.
No contact was ever made with the children by any of us, after this happened.....what do you do in something like this?
Anyway, the oldest child, has a son, who played on the Hawkeyes football team that was coming to the Rose Bowl, a few years ago.
They were all coming out from Iowa to see the BIG game.
She, Heather, decided to try and "find" her dad.
She did.
My brother called me so excited about this, it was really awesome.
So anyway, this contact by this brave child who was already rejected once       led to a opening of all of us getting back together.
His first wife, her mother, had died, as well as his middle daughter, both to cancer. But his youngest boy, Timmy, who I only saw as a baby is now all grown with kids, etc, and looks just like his dad, my brother.....

So, all of these lost family members will be working their way through Uncle Eddie's house, this summer and whenever.....

I can't wait  

MMRanch wrote on 01/25/19 at 17:54:24:


I indeed feel very blessed.....and lucky  

If I could just get my wife to retire, then we could really do a lot of great traveling.......soon.  

Haha.......

Funny thing, very timely you should bring up a bike ride.

I just renewed my drivers licence last week.
The clerk asked me if I still wanted to keep my motorcycle licence....
I said, no, I sold the bike and my wife won't let me ride.
She looked at me and chuckled.

Well later I looked at my new licence, and she kept my motorcycle endorsement on it....????  

Could this be karma?

The woman knows you can cut of his sack, but that won't really change the way he thinks....????    

I think she might consider retiring sooner, rather than latter, after she sees her tax bill this year, the girl makes too much money.....

Yeah, I could get me a new thump on her dime, buy me a trailer to pull it behind my truck, maybe even pick up that useless POS Versy, and you flat-landers might get to see how real west coast boys ride that lil' gal  

  (Time for me to get a new set of Sport Demons mounted).  



They'll be wore out before ya get there Dave  .  

But

I want to come along and watch !  

Haha.......

Yeah, I could get me a new thump on her dime, buy me a trailer to pull it behind my truck, maybe even pick up that useless POS Versy, and you flat-landers might get to see how real west coast boys ride that lil' gal  Grin  

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So , this is the year for a western USA bike ride.  

My clock is ticking and I might only have 10 or 20 years left before I retire to "Local Trips only" .     The S-40 is as light as most 250 so I'll keep it till I need a step-through mopad !    

I suggest August so those high elevations won't be so cold .  

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