Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream

[RadishRose]

Gary, Gary, quite hairy, how does yer garden grow?

It's coming along

We're eating zukes now
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Gonna have this one tonight;

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Maters are coming on;

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Corn is showing up;

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Lookin' good, Gary. Someone gave this photo o you and your Zukes-

Uh, sorry, that's your uncle Zack.

 

[Sliverfox]

Deer cleaned out hubby's squash plants.

Won't be putting homeless squash beside road with FREE sign on the box.

 

[Gary O']

Grands are coming this weekend

Gonna be 100° F

Gotta get the kiddie pool ready

BBQ is ready...it's always ready

Got an umbrella for the picnic table



Wife is making her 'tater salad

All is well

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Gary O']

HOT!

104°F!!

After working on the floor of the new shed early this morn, we stripped down and got into the kiddie pool

.....and stayed there

Gonna be hotter tomorrow

Wife took a pic of a sweaty geezer



Cool thing

I'm takin' a pic of her tomorrow

 

[Meanderer]

Time to head for the barn!

 

[CinnamonSugar]

HOT!

104°F!!

After working on the floor of the new shed early this morn, we stripped down and got into the kiddie pool

.....and stayed there

Gonna be hotter tomorrow

Wife took a pic of a sweaty geezer

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Cool thing

I'm takin' a pic of her tomorrow


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Stay safe and cool, @Gary O' .... it's truly weird weather when the South is cooler that the Northwest!

 

[Meanderer]

Stay in the Cool Zone!

 

[Gary O']

it's truly weird weather when the South is cooler that the Northwest!

True

We're on the dry side of the Cascade range, so it's not as muggy as the south

aaaaaand, it cools in the evening....not like up at the cabin, but window and door opening cool (typically in the 50s
It can get down into the 20s this time of year at the cabin
Drove my wife and her garden nuts

 

[Gary O']

Another kiddie pool day

So much so, we had lunch in it
Rather decadent
Pizza
Not head of a pig on its own floatie decadent......but, still....

If this heat keeps up, I'm getting tiny floats for the phone and drinks

Funny where one's mind goes when floating in a kiddie pool for what seemed hours on end

White clouds, on their own invisible floaties, evolve into Rorschach challenges
Some very anatomically correct





Dang....my deck of 51 jus' get soaked

Wunner how long it'll take to watch 'em dry....

 

[Meanderer]

Gary, you sound like a ...."Man, Over-Bored"!

 

[Gary O']

I'm actually enjoying this boredom, Jim

There's a tinge of guilt tucked into the back reaches of my skull

but

Letting the coffee fight it out with the beer

Tonight, after sunset, I might do some backyard chores


might

 

[Meanderer]

You deserve a break, Gary, and I'm sure all the birds happily ensconced in their avian abodes, second the emotion!

 

[Gary O']

Knocking off the butts

Not getting the exercise I got at the cabin

Gotta cut back food intake

And quit smoke intake

I'll miss the after meal, and during coffee soiree

Surely will

Won't miss the paraphernalia

(I rolled my own)

 

[Meanderer]

Smokey......

 

[Lakeland living]

Quit smoking after 23 years, in less than a month I cut and stacked etc, 2 years of fire wood.
Cigarettes I don't miss...still miss my pipe though.
Good luck

 

[Gary O']

Cooled our jets all day

That over grown kiddie pool is getting a workout

Once it cooled, around 6p, I was able and willing to do some actual work

Happily, I finally started the garden tool shed

Never felt so good



I think we'll repeat it all tomorrow

Finally getting the hang of all this heat

As for the fireworks tonight.....the poor city deer are goin' nuts

Three of them galloped past our back yard about an hour or so ago

Heh, we've got about six or eight that hang near our fence...just looking
I think they call it fence shopping

Veggies are getting rather large

 

[Keesha]

Knocking off the butts

Not getting the exercise I got at the cabin

Gotta cut back food intake

And quit smoke intake

I'll miss the after meal, and during coffee soiree

Surely will

Won't miss the paraphernalia

(I rolled my own)

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Nice rolling job.
Good that you are quitting though
Congratulations!

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Gary O']

Happily, I finally started the garden tool shed

Up until I saw this pic, I didn't realize how freaking white the hair on my head is




Wife sez;


'Wuddaya expect after 52 years of wedded bliss

....consider 'em gold.....white gold'

'Now, come eat dinner'
(white corn)

 

[Gary O']

Speaking of dinner;

Had some sorta noodle dish and squash on the side

'squash'

what a word for something edible

My lady is one heck of a cook
Whatever she put in that sliced zuke really kicked it up a notch

Heh, I'm not let in the kitchen to forage
Can't even unload the ice trays 'properly'

So, she fills a container of ice for the freezer topside of the fridge about every two-three hours

Somehow I'm able to transfer that ice, from the bowl, to my water jug
.......if I'm careful

Good thing
I drink gallons of water this time of year
Hate to make her bring it to me

.....then again


Man glitter (sawdust) is not let in the kitchen either
so.....I gotta blow myself off ever time I even think about going inside

Sometimes I miss cabin life

 

[Gary O']

Well now

Blew my back out a couple-three days ago

Heh, doesn't really bother me until I sit

Once I sit for a half hour, I can't straighten for 10-15 minutes

Wife sez 'take a Tylenol'
Our Tylenol are honken huge
I took two

What I keep forgetting is pain killers act as muscle relaxers
Gives my back a chance to loosen up

I rediscovered this today

 

[Gary O']

Knocking off the caffeine

When chopping wood up at the cabin, I never noticed how jittery it made me
Just burnt it up

Now?
Shoot, just piddling around with 2x4s and such
No real work

Thought, today, while in the shop; 'Why am I so filled with anxiety?!
I don't have a thing to be apprehensive about' (???)

Its freaking caffeine!!
Drained the pot, this morn, before even going outside



Going with decaf from here on out

Told my non-leaded drinking woman to whack me upside the head if I mention making a pot of liquid anxiety

 

[Gary O']

Heh, quit smoking
Quit caffeine
Eating less

If I quit sex I'll be a candidate for monkdom

 

[RadishRose]

I wish you success @Gary O' with losing the cigs and caffeine, That's a tall order but you can do it.