Ok, I got back on to track this morning… up, out and got in 2 miles or a bit more walk… I think I got scolded for being so lazy the past months (just too damn hot to be out there)..
Hey, he was in the shade and swanking… not sure if it was me or something else?
When I got home I immediately got on the mower, cause my nieces son complained Saturday that I need to mow… I offered that he could do it but he just went home (he is 5)… So I got the front mowed by 10 am and ran out of gas in one tank so figured I better get the jugs filled before I run out in the other tank… I put the hitch packer on and went to the local station that sells “real gas” with no ethanol… I prefer that for small engines like the mower and weed eater… some say the ethanol will tear up those small engines due to less lubrication? I don’t about all that but I don’t need to take a chance so a few dollars more won’t hurt the mower any… got that done and back… filled the tanks all up and added a little additive to ensure that if I don’t use all the gas it should keep till next spring… the grass has pretty much quit growing in all but the spots that get a little extra water or in shady spots… and I am not watering the grass just so I can mow it either… That is a double cost and makes little sense to me… although all those people with nice pretty green lawns sure look nice but ? Few can actually see much of my lawn anyway… which is ok by me…
It was then about lunch time so I took the back way in to pick up Sherrie, cause the kids are all back and in school and the main roads are really hazardous now… at lunch I get 3 pennies for change and since I had been working on my coin collection over the past month I immediately tried to get the dates on them… I am going to need to carry a magnifying glass if I need to do that… just do not focus on small stuff , even with the glasses like I used to… I did get one that for some reason I didn’t have one in the book? Although I was into coin back in the 80’s and a lot before that as a kid I saved coins then once a year would go through that big jar of pennies pulling good ones and and spending or rolling the others… Anyway, I got the bug again from doing my new inventory and figured I need to get caught up from about 1985 to present… I had a few of the in-between saved back but had not put them in the coin folder and now I am trying to fill it out to 2015 with “like new” coins as I catch them in my change or ???
When I dropped Sherrie off after lunch I figured I needed to get a picture of the East “decoration” that the horticulture/grounds crew has up…
The university is celebrating 125 years of existence… 1890 – 2015…
When I get a Round TUIT… wait… I have several so can’t use that excuse??? will think up another one…
Anyway. I got home, finished up the mowing… then pulled out the weed eater and proceeded to “whack” down some of those edge weeds and grasses that needed it… and got totally wore down doing that for an hour… so put it up and went to put another brace on my 160 meter antennas pole in the NE corner… that treated lumber I got was soft and very “bend-able”… damn thing had a 30 degree bend in the 2×4 at the top of the post and then another 2 15 degree bends (in two different directions) at the top… I had a 10 ft. piece of ? U channel iron I had gotten years ago for an antennas pole project that never came about , so I mounted that on the back side of the 2×4… got it pulled up a lot straighter but still wonder how long that will last as the screws I put in just zipped in so that wood is still really soft? They don’t sell good wood anymore… So since the screws went in too easy, I tied some guys on that pole near the top so I can keep it kind of straight up till it gets good and dry? maybe?
I came in and drank about a quart of cold tea and rested up a bit before dinner… I pulled out some Fish Fillets and grilled them up … that and a salad and the left over Mac-r-cheese was dinner…, oh I did slice up a really big fresh peach and with a big scoop of ice cream … that finished dinner… I know… eat healthy then ruin it with the ice cream but hey… I ‘m retired…
I have come to figure out what retired means… Retired = twice tired…
For the evening activity, I went back to the shop and played radio… making a few more contacts off the new loop antennas… still testing but did ok for a summer evening… it should start to get better in a month or so and I can move down a band or two…
When I got in to put this all down tonight it occurred to me… all those people asking me what will you do in retirement… Hell, I have too much to do… most of those people had no hobbies and work was all they did, of real measure… me.. I have too damn many hobbies… I really need to get on that other airplane, it sets about half done at present… I want to get a bunch more of the humming birds cut out and put together (to give away)… but cant get to them until I get the plane done.. I got the antenna up for 160 meter a bit faster than I had figured I would now I need for the fall and winter quiet time to hit so I can work on 160 meters… and the coins… always looking for a few good coins now… adding to the already over supply of them and that in it’s self can be a real time consuming hobby if you have to magnify them and guess it mate the quality of the coin to figure out if it is better than the ones you have? oh and to that end you need a good inventory, which I really never had so now I have a nice software program that I am putting all of them into with estimates on grades, etc.… so I now can more easily look up the coins and see, “do I have that one or a better one”… so being retired is not problem for me… finding enough time and deciding on what hobby I am going to tackle each day is more than enough to keep me busy for awhile… oh and add to that Grand kids and family and then travel, events I want to attend, clubs I am a member or, etc.… I think I can stay busier than I want to be… but back to the beginning? How many hobbies are enough? I am not sure there are too many? just priority opportunities…
With that note… here is a closing thought… another of those posters at the local Antique Mall…
Reminds me of the job I used to have… sure glad I don’t do that anymore..
WD0AJG