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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. |
| Three Score and Now Eleven + Day 189 Hello All, It has been too long since our last connection. I do not know where the days go to. I do not get up in the morning real late, but not early either. I plant my feet on the floor, do some reading, and do a few things and then it is time for our main meal. Then I do a few things like this, and it is another day over. The days are short as life is. It is amazing how you see that as you age. Yesterday I did something I have never had done before; I had a new windshield put in the van. I was not sure how it would work out, But it went very well. It went fast and I was still able to pick up from the auction house a half hour away and get home before 1:00. I got the vans new windshield covered up for today's ice storm. Then last night at auction I was able to buy some comic books, my first comics purchase in some time. I need to phone my brother later and get details on our early March fishing trip to the La Crosse area. It looks like there will be five of us. The weather looks good now, But this is Wisconsin, so the weather is never a sure bet. They say if you do not like the weather in Wisconsin wait five minutes and it will change and you may like it. I have not been out fishing as of late, it is the Mid-Winter terrible bite. So, I hope to catch some fish on the outing, it will be three days. It is close to where the grandsons, Lukas and Levi are. I hope to stop and see them on the way home over the weekend. I had better now get to my other days details. The Little says he wants to help so I better get going. Have a Blessed evening. |
| Three Score and Now Eleven + Day 178 It's February 15 evening. We had a good time at the Lukas and Levi birthday get together It was over night Feb 12-13. They are now 13. My Daughter and Son in Law rented a cabin and the whole family was there, Thirteen of us. It was good to see everyone together again. But it really wore me out. It takes me a couple of days to recover. I think the lethargy is due to my Afib medications. But that is another story for maybe another time. I am hoping to get out fishing again soon. The problem looks like the wind. The lake I want to get out on is big and the wind will be worse than other places. The wind beats the stuffing out of the fishing shack. We are going to go shopping tomorrow for groceries. And then I hope to stop and get garden fertilizer and some additional seed. I am worried about availability and price. What a crazy world we now live in. I wrote the Grand Sons a special note for their birthday telling them I am still a Little Boy just trying to get home. So much has changed in my life and not to the good. I just want to go home to what I am familiar with. I know home no longer exists but I will try to make this crazy situation as close as I can to what I see home as. Does that make any sense to you? I will not give up on how I remember home. I cannot accept what is today. Yes, I am Old School and an Old Soul. |
| Three Score and Now Eleven + Day 175 Dear Grandsons and All It is a nice day, Sunny and warmer. A nice day for Ice fishing. I will go later this afternoon. I have not been doing very well as of late. The typical mid-winter bite. but I need to go out into the sun. It has been over sixty years since my first Ice Fishing outing that should have cured me of ice fishing for good. I and my next in line brother were able to go with my father and his friend. I am not sure where we went, but I am sure we were excited. It was a distance. What I do remember has how cold and windy it was. I am sure we did not have the best of clothes. And there was no shelter. And nobody caught a fish. But the real treat was I stepped in a hole with my boot at the beginning and had a wet foot for the day. My father was not concerned. But my father's friend was. The friend was a good friend of my grandfather who had passed by this time. He was age wise between my father and my grandfather. He gathered wood from the shore and built a fire on the ice for my brother and me. That fire made a bad day bearable. I think of that man and that day at least once year when I go ice fishing. As a side bar I went ice fishing with the wife a couple of years ago and she stepped in a hole and got a wet foot. We were close to the van. We went home shortly afterward. One thing about Ice Fishing you do not want to get wet. Stay dry and you can be warm, Grandsons. Till Later I'll let you know how I do today |
| Three Score and Now Eleven + Day 170 Dear Grandsons It looks like we are off the very bottom of winter temperatures, and I am glad. It will still be cold, but it was worse and will now get better. It has been to long since I have written. Lukas and Levi you are going to be thirteen soon. You guys were so little. Where has the time gone. Now you are bright well developed and health teenagers. Go for it guys. I have to tell you being a teenager is a great place to be, but it will end all too soon. We are looking forward to seeing you on your birthday outing. Like I wrote I should have and wanted to write sooner than this. But the enthusiasm was not there. There has not been much to write about. The fishing has not been good lately. I have been out some, But with two skunks on the ledger. I have been doing our new year and past year bookkeep. Internet sales have been slow. I have been adding some new listings The internet auctions have been tough for me. It seems I have an inner voice that holds me back from over bidding, which is a good thing. I will not chase items and over bid. It seems like so many people have no sense of value. Or they just want to spend money they have too much of. Or maybe it is just my conservative ways in my old age. I feel I am getting farther and farther out of the loop. And as I always happens this time of year I get down. But the bottom line is I did not write. Now today I will write as I go along, so I will hold this place for now. I am back after doing internet booth listings and adding the items to inventory. I have not been sleeping good at night. It seems I am tired before going to bed. But when I get there, I start coughing and someone turns on the movie "This is your life Fathertymme" I just have to watch it or listen to it. The lights flicker and thier is no commercials. So, I am awake and stay that way too long. It has always been that way. I rethink things and visualize my coming day. So, I work a good part of the night. Then do it again tomorrow. Also, I have a problem with worry about the wife's and my future, how we will get along as we age. I need learn to pray more and worry less. But that is difficult. I try to visualize a blank sheet of paper or a blank computer screen with everything deleted. It does not work most of the time. It is time to close this out and get started with the bookwork. It is best if I do not get distracted when I am doing numbers. My age is showing. I hope to write again soon. Have a blessed Evening |
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