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Psalm 90:10, "The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong.... |
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Three Score and Ten the Introduction, Well here we go, After 50 years I am going to take another attempt at writing. The first time was the Palmer writers correspondence school in 1969. The writing will be not a book that will be written with the idea of being published, But will be a writing of thoughts unencumbered by possible publishing and monetary gain. This writing will be a hybrid of Journal and Reminisce. It is important to me that the writings are my true thoughts at the time, not influenced by any factor. The writing will try to explain how a 70 year old white, male USA citizen now relates to today's world. Is every oldest generation lost in their own world, that they aged into? What do I see, and feel as I age farther. I know I am not normal as in what this world today would consider normal. But I hope I am in the ball park writing the thoughts of a 70 year old. I hope for you to learn to know who I am, As I search for Who I am at 70+ This work will carry on until I am no longer able to think or write. This will be done on a nearly daily writing interwoven with a life's reminiscing. This writing has been in the planning for 10 plus years. and I have now made it to this starting point. This writing is dedicated to My Wife The Kitten, My family, My grand children, Lukas, Levi, Luis, Lydia and Sonora Pearl. I thank you God that you have allowed me to have your Three Score and Ten Time. |
| Today is cooler and there is a bit of white stuff on the ground. It is not fun for me to see, the coming of winter. The young people can play in the snow. I do not want any more to do with then I need to. Our oldest Grand Daughter Sonora Pearl phoned us very recently all excited, She had gotten her first pay check. She will be seventeen at Thanksgiving. She recently started a job at Wendy's at get this Eleven Dollars an hour. I nearly fell of my chair. That is a lot of money for an inexperience sixteen year old. My daughter and Son in Law bought her a nice car so she has gas to buy and I hope pay toward insurance. but what was gratifying was the fact she has to put half in a savings account and she is good with that. When my daughters were that age they had to save half of there earnings. I was NOT all ways popular but they did it, and went to college with a small nest egg. It is nice to see that, that concept carried forward. Now onto a prompt, No. 25. What has been your favorite job? I must have started my working life as a Stock boy at a McCrory Mclellan Dime Store at get this .85 cents an hour. I must have been 15-16 years old. I learned retail displaying which came in handy at the Antique Malls much later in life. I have spent most of my adult life self employed dairy farming and a retail nursery and floral. Then later buying and selling and appraising antiques and collectibles. There was a few short part time gigs combined with my Self employment. It was all very stressful being self employed with a family. I all ways as a youngster wanted to farm, Big. It took me years getting over leaving the dairy farm. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I still dream of it at times. The dreams are that I am always behind, Corn not planted, Cows not feed, Not enough feed, Barn flooded. It is always a crisis dream. I then went into the nursery retail floral a distance away from the farm. That was more stressful. We bought it as a closed up business of about 3 years and reopened it. with the dairy we knew that the milk truck would pick every day. With the store there was no guarantee that some one would come in the door and purchase, and some days no one did. But onto answering the prompt. 25. What has been your favorite job? When I was in High school and shortly afterwards, I managed by persistence to get a job at the local radio station as a D.J. and announcer on the weekends. I remember I did not do a lot of announcing because they did not think my voice was right. So I did mostly music. I loved playing the music and announcing some. The days were long 10-12 hours and tiring. I was very foolish and gave up the job under bad circumstances. I remember the pay was terrible. I have gone on to do a radio show as the Plant Doctor, and later did Cable Television program as a Antique Appraiser. I have had a very full life and Thank God for it |
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