Never thought retirement would be like this

Continuing the story, here is my father on our vacation a few years later at a different fishing cabin near Peterborough, Ontario.

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I see a few bottles of Molson and a lot of Iron City, plus the usual suspects. He had a great sense of humor.
 

Nancy, your Dad is one lucky guy! As I began to scroll down,I thought, great picture.....then I came to the bottom! HAHA! You Dad's "stage dressing" made for a Super photo! You are one lucky girl! The guy below, caught a Blatz beer!
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Thanks Meanderer. Everybody liked my father. If I have a sense of humor at all, it is due to two people: he and my best girlfriend from grade school. And, btw, he would be thrilled I posted that picture to the whole world.
 

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Just a quick update...

Almost panicked about wheat straw for bedding Saturday---everywhere I went they were out, said there was a shortage, and they couldn't get any. Finally found it at Home Depot and got 12 bales. That should be enough for the winter. Without it I might have had to put jammies on the goats every night this winter. ;)

One small step forward. Removed the shoe molding from the main part of the kitchen today, except behind the stove. Then there's the nook off the kitchen for the table. That part will be trouble. Won't bore with details. Not necessary to do either of those until sheet vinyl is laid---waaaay down the road. I'll figure out what to do by then.

Got appointment for impression for tooth implants on the 15th. Time has just flown! I'm so used to things the way they are now, it doesn't seem that important anymore.
 
Hey Teach!!! See, it never occurred to me that anyone couldn't visualize a goat in pajamas. :)

What little show-offs they are! Those are custom made pajamas. Better get the sewing machine oiled. Don't want my goats in T-shirts or second-class outfits, in case I run out of straw.

Btw, this video shows what I'm talking about when I say the goats are dancing. It's that little bouncy, twisty, side-step they do when they run (~0:20). They still do that at almost 12 years old, but they don't bounce quite so high.

Great video. Thank you.
 
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One day, maybe 20+ years ago, I went out by myself to enjoy an afternoon at the cabin. When I drove down to it, there were 4 mature men on the opposite side of the lake fishing. They didn't offer to leave, so after a while I decided to row the boat over and talk to them. I had a .22 rifle with me and thought I'd take it along (unloaded). Don't know why really. I wrapped a jacket around it to hide it, and just about the time I started loading the boat, they took off running into the woods.

About 4 years ago, I met one of those men who was helping someone install gutters on the mobile home out there. Somehow the topic of the lake came up, and he asked me if I remembered that incident and I said yes. He said something like, "When we saw you coming with that shotgun we decided we better hightail it outta there." We had a good laugh about it. I was a bit embarrassed.

I'm putting this happy-ending story in here because it may be useful later. I want badly to type something nasty right now and this provides a distraction for my fingers. Went out to the farm today, and because of that, I'm not in a good mood. If I post anything else my dark side may show, and I may regret it.:) Good night.

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Thanks for reading Pappy. Just got a call about a lunch date with a good friend, at McDonald's, so things are looking up. ;)
 
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Meanderer, do you know Steve???

He was admitted to the ICU this afternoon with 3rd degree ear burns and a bad case of rolling eyes. :playful:
 
Yesterday out at the farm the woman who lives next door came by and asked if her husband could hunt deer on my property. I said No. I've already told her husband No and I've told her No before. My parents got fed up with her coming by and asking them.

She mentioned they had tried unsuccessfully to go in with 2 other couples to buy 26 acres on the other side of her, and adjoining me, for shared hunting rights. On 26 acres? :rolleyes: Point being he has friends interested in hunting too.

I don't want to run into 4 men with deer rifles in the woods one day, instead of 4 men with fishing rods on the lake.

The *main* thing that got me riled up is how she keeps on asking. Other things she said, too, but they aren't important. End of story.:)
 
Meanderer: Yes!!!
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And lots of these will do in a pinch if there are no giant Hershey bars:

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Between Lowes and Walmart I bought 29 POSTED signs today. Going to put them on the back side of the property Saturday, unless it rains. The neighbor lady will be mad, but I'm not doing it to annoy her. Honest. In fact annoying her scares me.
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Just had my first total computer crash (Error code OFOO:075D) which means everything is gone. Had to buy a new computer and the one I got was with Windows 8 which, for me, has been user unfriendly. I'm starting over with an old laptop with Windows XP which I love. Had to register again with this forum, and others. I hope to be "back up to speed" by the first of the year.
 
Hey John! I'm guessing you posted this in the wrong section, but Hello, and welcome back! ;)

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This was another one of those days when I fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon and now it's late and I'm not sleepy and bored, so I'm going to post more pictures.

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How I was mistreated in the summers as a teenager
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First, my responsibilities, among other things, were to pull weeds from this really long bank behind our house, and mow the lawn. Looks like I might have been wolfing down a few too many candy bars that summer.

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Then we took a trip to Alaska in 1962 in this thing. That is a '62 Chevrolet pickup, and my mother peeking out that window.

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Guess where I had to sleep for 4 weeks on that trip. But at least I had my own private air vent you could crank open on top.

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Just to prove we made it there, this is Smokey the Bear and me.

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We went to Fairbanks and Valdez. There was a 1100 mile stretch of gravel road you had to pass through in Canada at that time. I'm sure it is all paved by now. Most all of our other pictures of that trip are on 35mm slides. Not ever going to pull those out. Aren't you lucky?!
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Amazing pictures, Nancy. Sounds like you folks had a fun trip.
I hope the posted signs work. My wife's father had a large farm, years ago, and posted his land every year. Seems so the hunters from the big cities could not read and paid no attention to the signs. Good thing he had nine big sons to persuade them off.
 
Pappy, truth be told I was a little too old for that trip. I was 15. Had it been 5 years earlier it would have been more fun. I would love to go now, but under the same conditions as 1962. Who knows, it might be bumper to bumper traffic going up there now.

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My wife's father had a large farm ... Good thing he had nine big sons to persuade them off.
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So that makes 10. How many children were there, total? :)
 
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What a pretty day today! Sunshine, no wind, high of 75 deg F.

Put up all 29 signs---2 on that neighbor lady's property line. Still could use more. Boy do they stand out! I did those 2 walking. The goats rarely follow me walking anymore, but this time they did. When we got to the two dogs, they high-tailed it back to the barn at first bark. It made me feel bad, like they finally trusted me to take them somewhere safe and I blew it.:(


Finished piling up those bushes cut down from the edge of the lake. Dug a rock out of Shorty's hoof.


The only new thing is new neighbors. I didn't mention the woman told me someone *else* bought the 26 acres. She said the new people were going to build a house and already told them they couldn't hunt there. Amen!!!! Here is the map (did I say I love maps?). The blue is the newly sold 26 acres. Mine is outlined in red and that woman and her husband are squished in the middle. :devil: ( Strange property lines out there.:rolleyes:)


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And I've got 4 new neighbors on the back side. Here are two of them. I like cattle.

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I love your Alaska and camper pics Nancy, I wish we had our truck camper for our trips to Alaska and Canada, but we were much younger then and could handle the tents on the ground. I really enjoy reading your diary, so interesting and almost always brings a smile. :thankyou:
 
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