Sunday 5-12-2019

A full week has passed since I've retired from my job. I had a pretty busy week at my own pace. That's a good thing.  Yesterday I went golfing with my brother and his son. We all found the water hazards real easy lol. So today I've been looking at lots of pics taken over the years. A lot of old pics of my mom and dad and our family. And the pics of my love and our family through the years. So much time has passed. Looking at these pics made me realize how little time we really have in our lives. We don't think about that from day to day. And a lot of sadness for me today also. Thinking about all those special memories of my loved ones. This week I took a couple of pics from my backyard where my mom had one of her flower gardens. I'm not great at yard and flower arrangement so it's kinda out of control. I posted a pic from this before from a long time ago. She had a pretty statue in it and sometime this Winter it fell over. So my neighbors repositioned it to stand and keep a watchful eye on the garden. I was thinking it would be good for a pic of the garden today for this special Sunday. Happy Mother's Day! "There's no greater love than a Mother's Love."

Sunday 5-5-2019

It's now official. As of Friday I am retired. It hasn't quite sunk in yet, this being a weekend but Monday I'm sure it will when I wake and realize I don't have to head off to work. It's kind of bitter sweet in many ways. Yet I'm comfortable I've made the right decision to retire. I'll still be busy, lots of unfinished business here at home. Yesterday I met my stepdaughter and her husband for dinner to celebrate my retirement. That was so nice. Soon they will be taking a vacation to Florida once again. I think this is the third time they have escaped here for the beach and fun. Till next time..a blast from the past...

 

Sunday 4-28-2019

Hard to believe last post for April since I've only been doing a weekly one. Lots of memories floating in my head this past week. Things I haven't thought of in years about our lives together. Funny how those memories pop up. One week to go then my working days on the job are done. Doesn't mean I'm done working, I have lots of projects to get done here at home. It will be nice to not make that daily commute, though it's a short one compared to my last job. I'm looking forward to doing a lot of things I had put off for years. When I sit down to write these posts I have a general idea what I'm going to write about but it seems more words get punched out than I was thinking. One of those blogging mysteries. My department head said they will have a little party for me on Friday, my last day. A free meal for sure. Somewhere this week I thought of this song. One I haven't thought of for years....

 

Sunday 4-21-2019

This year is going pretty quickly. It is Easter already. It must be true what they say, "the older you get, the faster time goes by." I'm going to my step daughter's for Easter dinner and will enjoy an afternoon with her and her husband and the grand kids. The kids are so grown up now. I must have blinked or something lol.
So I've been getting "all my ducks in a row" as they say and I am going to take an early retirement. I feel it's the perfect time with all that's happened the last year or so. A good time while I'm still pretty healthy and can enjoy my life. Everything's changed  for me as everyone knows who have read my posts here, I feel it's time. Plus I can get all the things done I've putting off for years.
I wish you a Happy Easter and leave with a short video of one of my favorite drummers doing his thing. He makes it look so easy....

 

Sunday 4-14-2019

Last night I thought I would listen to the second Bad Company album. I hadn't listened to the entire album for a long time. There's three songs on it you can constantly here on the radio on the classic rock stations. So I thought I'd look up some info on the album. Here it got mixed reviews when it was released. Most didn't care for the song written by the drummer. Plus the reviews seemed to think it was a let down from their debut album. One said they shouldn't be called a hard rock band. Whatever writer said that seemed to me must be clueless about music. I just considered Bad Company a Rock n Roll band. I wonder what writer labeled them a hard rock band? For me I liked their first album better as a whole but there are those songs on the second album that will blow you away. After all it has one of the greatest rock ballads of all time with the song Shooting Star. It's still played a lot on those classic rock stations. So I thought I'd feature the song that the critics didn't like in this blog...

Sunday 4-7-2019

Last Sunday I went to a concert with a friend from work. What a great show. It was at one the smaller venues which is perfect. We went to see Jon Anderson who was the lead singer for years with the band Yes. Besides the Beatles he's my all time favorite singer. It was the second show of his new 1000 Hands tour. And the release of his 1000 Hands cd. Thirty years in the making. He had some tapes sitting around in his garage that he had started working on thirty years ago then he got busy. Plus he added some new songs. It sounds like all the songs were recorded just yesterday. And of course he did Yes stuff too. It was an awesome concert. He still has a lot of energy for a man in his seventies. Anyhoo I tried to take some pics but they didn't turn out too good. Phone cameras are limited but here's one anyway.

And here's one of his new songs.

 
 

Sunday 3-24-2019

Yesterday another milestone. Time goes by quickly. Tick Tock. Except the few minutes you're waiting to leave work and that seems like an eternity. So I thought of an old song considered a classic now to celebrate the milestone. Back when I was just a kid and heard this song, I thought that age was a long long ways away. It seems from then till now life passed in a flash. Precious are our moments here on Earth.....