Gary’s post: Yes, another sunrise picture. Early morning and evening are the best times of the day. So beautiful. It helps to reset your attitude and remind you that there are bigger things in life than your current worries.
Today is a sad day for me. My beloved mother passed 4 years ago today. The sad thing is that she passed exactly one week after I told her that my brother passed. I really debated about telling her, especially since she was in bad shape after her stroke. I felt she needed to know. My brother was her “wounded pigeon”. He was her baby. She was blind to his addictions and always tried to help him, which enabled him. Sometimes love blinds you to the realities of people’s behaviors. It almost cost my mom and dad their marriage. It’s hard to be the “last man standing” for your immediate family. If my wonderful wife hadn’t pushed me to see a cardiologist, I might not be here either and that would be the end of the generation. Every life ends.
Still working on getting things organized so we can move the trailer this weekend. Called a couple of gravel places, but no call backs yet. This place is definitely slower than I’m used to. It seems like time just gets away from me. Yes, I did get maintenance work done on the trailer, cleaned the tanks and did laundry – but so much more needed to be done yesterday. This “COVID” trailer is a mess. I just discovered one of the USB outlets stopped working – so two hours to fix that…. Crazy how the little things eat up your time. And as you get older, time files, quite literally. Your perception of time morphs so drastically as you get older.
More crazy spring New Mexico weather. 17 degrees this morning and in the minus numbers east of us. Snowpack is really lite this year, but we still have spring to get through. May snow is a norm here. The trees are starting to come out as it’s in the 60’s and 70’s during the day, along with winds. I’d forgotten about the crazy weather.
Need to book my flight to Seattle for April. Have to see my cardiologist on last time. I’ll see my kids and some friends while I’m there. Dunno if I’ll be retired on not by then, we’ll see. I do need to retire, but thinking that until I get my workshop back, what’s the point. Can’t do anything or get to anything because it’s so full of “crap”. I wish we’d have purged more when we moved. My wife has some of her “pack rat” traits from her father. It’s the sentimental stuff that she claims to want to refinish but never gets done. I’m a big believer in the phrase “you make time for what’s important”, especially as you get older because time is so fleeting.
Alright, need to get moving today. Personal grooming day, and lots of Itron work needs to be done today. I’m struggling to get my head around the work. I’d much rather be focused on the tasks needed to get our house built. That’s how I know I need to retire.
Have a wonderful day. Stop and enjoy the sunrise, sunset or even the rain. You only get that moment once in life.
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