Wow, it's been a very long time since I've been here on "Blogspot", or is it "Blogger" these days? Doesn't matter really I guess. This is the first place I ever really did any kind of online journal type posting, and quite frankly, it's the place I enjoyed most of all. Here, I met a lot of really good folks, most of which are no longer around. I think the instant gratification aspect of Facebook ruined the more intimate climate of blogs, and that's a crying shame. Some of the folks I used to follow, like Sarge Charlie, no longer walk the earth, most simply gave up on this platform, but there's still a few around. Maybe I'll spend some more time in this neck of the woods, and walk through the forest a bit to see who's hanging out in the trees. 

It's odd that by simply coming here it feels like I stepped back in time to when things were much simpler. I just wish that the folks I used to hang out with here were still around. I did truly enjoy my interactions with them. In some cases change is the preferred option, but that isn't the case this time, at least not for me. 

Well, that's enough for "day 1", so I think I'll do a bit of exploring. See you soon.  

Goodbye Facebook

I have been on Facebook for at least a dozen years. I’ve met a lot of good people there in that time frame, but last night I made my last post on my page. In the past couple of years the entirety of Facebook has gone in the toilet and it’s become a giant political shit show. Now days FB is nothing but a place for people to make and post 2 sentence hate blurbs and then walk away laughing. It seems to me it’s nothing but a platform designed to push you in whatever direction its’ owners want you to go. I no longer get any enjoyment when I read it, I just get pissed off, so I decided to do something about it and leave it to all the keyboard warriors and they can do with it whatever they want. There’s a couple of non-political groups I’ll still check out, but as for my OWN page…the end.

We’re very close to being done with the building of our house in Montana. Good, because I’m sick of that project. All along the way folks have said how we’d look back and say it was all worth it. Nope, not for me it hasn’t. At this point I just consider it to have taken a year of my life. In all honesty I’d rather have gone fishing and the sooner we get this thing done the better. Just like the mighty Casey, there is no joy in Mudville.

So, what does the future hold? Well, I have no idea but I do know things have got to change or I’m going to melt into a blob of goo. That being the case I’ll just start hanging out and posting here, just like in the “good old days” before FB even existed.

Talk to you soon.

 

After 3 1/2 weeks of non-stop moving I'm back to blogging. You can check out the new post here:

http://turningthepagesoflife.com/

As time drags along we can get caught up in our routines. When that happens our days all seem to run together and we cease differentiating between good and bad…they are just “days”. That being the case it behooves each and every one of us to take time once in a while to step out and enjoy ourselves for absolutely no other reason than to have fun. Yesterday was my time to step away and enjoy myself...CONTINUE

Being retired often means getting to do pretty much what you want to do. One of the drawbacks is that usually, in order to achieve that goal you have to get older. For some that means forever waking up long before the rooster crows and not being able to get back to sleep. Such was the case every day for the old decoy carver…CONTINUE