So what does one do with their time?

Nathan said:
Welcome back for you as well. 👍

I don't know why, but I didn't grow a beard until very much later...after I retired.
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Thanks. Since we didn't have beards in country (wouldn't have anyway due to the humidity and heat), having a beard back in the world could remind me that I really was home. For a while there, that was important to me.

Tony
 

Nathan said:
After the local fitness center closed( before Covid) my two favorite fitness trainers and I joined together and formed a fitness business. We are busy streaming live video to a private Facebook audience, and have in-studio participants as well. Most of our followers are friends & acquaintances from the [now defunct] fitness center. We have fun, we get plenty of exercise doing 11 classes a week, consisting of Silver Sneakers sanctioned classes. I recently completed training to be a Silver Sneakers Enerchi flex instructor.
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i see silver sneakers has an online site. i wish i could afford the expense but oh well. i'm hoping to get the energy to get back into walking on the treadmill at work at some point.
 
Patch said:
Sir! You have just insulted me!!!!! Manhattan is home to Kansas State University... NOT... the University of Kansas!! KU is our mortal enemy!!!!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

We are a dynamic community! I spent many years on the road. Would rather drive in a metropolitan area than here! We have the military, the college students, farmers, geriatrics, and "regular" people. Not one of them is going the same speed or using the same driving habits!!! We hear Ft. Riley "booming" almost daily and have for decades. We call it the "sound of freedom" as our homes shake.

Been in Kansas our entire lives. Have our burial plots here and this will be our final resting place.
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*Hikes up drawers...rolls up sleeves* Looks like you and me gotta problem. LOL!
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I want to add a Welcome Home to all the fellow veterans. It's something we never got so I make it my duty to shake your hand and give you the welcome you deserve.
As for beards. Since we had to have our hair high and tight all that time, I did grow a mustache, and when I got out everything was allowed to grow wild. Since then I've grown my beard and shaved it off many times. (y)
 
SetWave said:
I want to add a Welcome Home to all the fellow veterans. It's something we never got so I make it my duty to shake your hand and give you the welcome you deserve.
As for beards. Since we had to have our hair high and tight all that time, I did grow a mustache, and when I got out everything was allowed to grow wild. Since then I've grown my beard and shaved it off many times. (y)
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Thanks SetWave and welcome home to you. I agree with your sentiment. These days, at the VA they say "thank you for your service", but I have not heard "welcome home" except on occasion from other Vietnam vets I encounter there.

Tony
 
I'm glad the military kept us safe over the years. I am sorry that you had to go and fight and kill at all though. I can't imagine the terrible things many of you have had to live with in the aftermath. But thanks for your service. Hope you're enjoying retirement.
 
I will let you know in 8 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days... not that I'm counting....
I have several close friends that have retired in the last few years, and everyone of them says they
wonder how they had enough time to hold down a full time job...
My biggest concern is time adaptation... I have been working 12 hour, swing shifts for over 30 years...
Half a world jet lag every week....
 
MarciKS said:
North Central Kansas here. That's really all I'm willing to reveal. No offense. I lived in Central Kansas most of my life. Moved north about 5 yrs ago I think.
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Yup, she is not even willing to meet me should I again find myself in Kansas and I have a corgi! 😂
 
Patch said:
Sir! You have just insulted me!!!!! Manhattan is home to Kansas State University... NOT... the University of Kansas!! KU is our mortal enemy!!!!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

We are a dynamic community! I spent many years on the road. Would rather drive in a metropolitan area than here! We have the military, the college students, farmers, geriatrics, and "regular" people. Not one of them is going the same speed or using the same driving habits!!! We hear Ft. Riley "booming" almost daily and have for decades. We call it the "sound of freedom" as our homes shake.

Been in Kansas our entire lives. Have our burial plots here and this will be our final resting place.
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My grandparents, and great grandparents are buried in Kansas and many other relatives. Dad grew up on a dirt farm in a very small farming community which still exist today. I was so overwhelmed with a feeling of peace when I visited the great grandparents grave. It was a welcome home “sweetie” moment.

As if great grandmother had been waiting for me. I’ve heard of other people having that experience when finding the grave of an older relative-a feeling of love, acceptance, and approval. Something I have never felt in real life from a relative.
 
SetWave said:
I want to add a Welcome Home to all the fellow veterans. It's something we never got so I make it my duty to shake your hand and give you the welcome you deserve.
As for beards. Since we had to have our hair high and tight all that time, I did grow a mustache, and when I got out everything was allowed to grow wild. Since then I've grown my beard and shaved it off many times. (y)
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You guys do realize there are women vets as well, don’t you? I didn’t grow a beard after I got out, that would have been weird, but I have finally managed the mustache 😍.
 
old medic said:
I will let you know in 8 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days... not that I'm counting....
I have several close friends that have retired in the last few years, and everyone of them says they
wonder how they had enough time to hold down a full time job...
My biggest concern is time adaptation... I have been working 12 hour, swing shifts for over 30 years...
Half a world jet lag every week....
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I took early retirement 3 years ago.... I officially retire in 19 days...I'll tell you what it's like then... :LOL:
 
Aneeda72 said:
My grandparents, and great grandparents are buried in Kansas and many other relatives. Dad grew up on a dirt farm in a very small farming community which still exist today. I was so overwhelmed with a feeling of peace when I visited the great grandparents grave. It was a welcome home “sweetie” moment.

As if great grandmother had been waiting for me. I’ve heard of other people having that experience when finding the grave of an older relative-a feeling of love, acceptance, and approval. Something I have never felt in real life from a relative.
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Would you mind sharing the "small farming community" name? PM if you don't want it public. I was raised in a small community of about 400. We had one of the largest high school classes. Had 20 in our graduating class. Lots of those small communities in our area. Some were "boom towns" because of a railroad. As certain railroads closed, the towns along them died. Tough for a small town to make it, today. People will drive 20 or 30 miles to a Walmart, etc. instead of buying from a local retailer.
 
Patch said:
Would you mind sharing the "small farming community" name? PM if you don't want it public. I was raised in a small community of about 400. We had one of the largest high school classes. Had 20 in our graduating class. Lots of those small communities in our area. Some were "boom towns" because of a railroad. As certain railroads closed, the towns along them died. Tough for a small town to make it, today. People will drive 20 or 30 miles to a Walmart, etc. instead of buying from a local retailer.
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I will look it up later, it was in lower Kansas near the OKLAHOMA border as I recall. I will have to get on my desk top and pull up the genealogy on Amazon
 
Patch said:
Would you mind sharing the "small farming community" name? PM if you don't want it public. I was raised in a small community of about 400. We had one of the largest high school classes. Had 20 in our graduating class. Lots of those small communities in our area. Some were "boom towns" because of a railroad. As certain railroads closed, the towns along them died. Tough for a small town to make it, today. People will drive 20 or 30 miles to a Walmart, etc. instead of buying from a local retailer.
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Grandfather is buried in Wellington, Sumner County, KS. He was born at Fort Scott, Burbon, KS. He eventually worked for law enforcement. Great grandparents are buried in Longton/Moline, KS, Elk County. The farm was in Longton, KS, but he sold fruit trees in Fall River. Great grandfather was hurt at Cherokee Run and died soon after. He was seen to at the Watt Funeral home in Moline. But I believe the cementry is in Longton.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Grandfather is buried in Wellington, Sumner County, KS. He was born at Fort Scott, Burbon, KS. He eventually worked for law enforcement. Great grandparents are buried in Longton/Moline, KS, Elk County. The farm was in Longton, KS, but he sold fruit trees in Fall River. Great grandfather was hurt at Cherokee Run and died soon after. He was seen to at the Watt Funeral home in Moline. But I believe the cementry is in Longton.
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One of my last projects was in Sumner County, a few miles west of Wellington. Back in the early 80's, was project manager for a water plant in Longton. One of my golf buddy's wife was born and raised in the Longton area. I identify towns by their water or sewer plants/systems. Have constructed new or done modifications to MANY around the State over my 40 year career. :>)
 
Patch said:
One of my last projects was in Sumner County, a few miles west of Wellington. Back in the early 80's, was project manager for a water plant in Longton. One of my golf buddy's wife was born and raised in the Longton area. I identify towns by their water or sewer plants/systems. Have constructed new or done modifications to MANY around the State over my 40 year career. :>)
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It’s a small world 😂
 
Yesterday, we had to hire a large truck following a breakdown of one of our own. Our vehicle was repaired and is roadworthy again meaning that the hired truck can be returned. But it has to be back at seven am or our company will have to pay for an extra day's hire. Our warehouse manager has the appropriate licence to drive the vehicle so he was doing the job of returning it. That meant that someone had to pick him up at the hire centre and bring him back, a task that fell to yours truly.
Up and out by half six this morning, how I loved it, seeing the early starters, the early bus that went by, people stopping off to buy a newspaper, coffee or a sandwich. All that energy, it was wonderful. For those who are more than happy to see the back of it, good luck to you, enjoy the slower pace of life, but for me, that time is still a long way off.
 
Gary O' said:
Built 'em before and after retirement

For me, retirement was just getting to do what I want to do...….all day long

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Knee pads. Last time I wore knee pads I was in the cotton patch pulling bolls.
 

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