🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Retirement

[It Takes Eleven]

Well, I'll just add on to this thread if it's okay @alabama mike . I retired yesterday, as scheduled last June and announced internally and externally in December. When I set the date, I never knew that February 28th would be a day for many departures, or that my agency would be subject to unusual stress. Hate to leave in a difficult time, but I had extended my date by over 18 months already, and it's time to do things while I'm in decent shape.

We'll put the Georgia house up for sale in the next month or so, and get everything consolidated. Then, we'll focus on some landscaping at the lake, and get in some short trips. Because of the unknown timing of the sale, we're not planning a large trip until the fall, and we're doing a river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel. Looking forward to that. I also have a couple of backcountry permit applications to The Enchantments, but that's like getting Masters tickets, but I'll do that late summer if I'm selected.

RTR,

Tim

 

[TerryP]

Well, I'll just add on to this thread if it's okay @alabama mike . I retired yesterday, as scheduled last June and announced internally and externally in December. When I set the date, I never knew that February 28th would be a day for many departures, or that my agency would be subject to unusual stress. Hate to leave in a difficult time, but I had extended my date by over 18 months already, and it's time to do things while I'm in decent shape.

We'll put the Georgia house up for sale in the next month or so, and get everything consolidated. Then, we'll focus on some landscaping at the lake, and get in some short trips. Because of the unknown timing of the sale, we're not planning a large trip until the fall, and we're doing a river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel. Looking forward to that. I also have a couple of backcountry permit applications to The Enchantments, but that's like getting Masters tickets, but I'll do that late summer if I'm selected.

RTR,

Tim

Our tax dollars at no work.

 

[rick4bama]

To all you that are about to are have retired! I hope it went well on both ways. When April told the nursing home she was going to retire, they try the best to keep her on for longer. It was all the way to the day she retired, It took about three years to find a replacement.

 

[Bamabww]

we're doing a river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel.

Congrats on your retirement Tim. I haven't regretted a day of retirement. All the best to you and the family. Now you'll wonder how you ever had time to work!

We're doing that river cruise with Viking in April of 26 during Tulip time.

 

[TerryP]

We're doing that river cruise with Viking in April of 26 during Tulip time.

Talk about catching my attention.

 

[alabama mike]

Mom had a stroke in early November so I spent time in Florence right up until the Monday before Christmas (it was on a Wednesday) went back to Ohio and the returned to Bama for 2 weeks. Daddy fractured his L1 and L2 vertebrae in his back and had surgery today, 3/11/25 in Huntsville. I think I have spent all but about 20-25 days in Bama since November 6, 2024 taking care of my parents. I usually go to Ohio for about 10 days and come home for a couple of weeks. Not sure when I will get back to Ohio this trip. Good thing I retired.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Mom had a stroke in early November so I spent time in Florence right up until the Monday before Christmas (it was on a Wednesday) went back to Ohio and the returned to Bama for 2 weeks. Daddy fractured his L1 and L2 vertebrae in his back and had surgery today, 3/11/25 in Huntsville. I think I have spent all but about 20-25 days in Bama since November 6, 2024 taking care of my parents. I usually go to Ohio for about 10 days and come home for a couple of weeks. Not sure when I will get back to Ohio this trip. Good thing I retired.

I'm so sorry for your folks' issues, a certainty as our parents age. My Mom, 83, is going to schedule a hip, post-Easter, and we can hopefully see her through a May recovery with it. Otherwise, she's in good shape and chafed at the idea of me riding her John Deere to mow the lawn ahead of and following her procedure.

I still have another hour or two tomorrow to finish pruning the scuppernong and muscadine vines at my folks, and I have three long runners reserved to root each variety in some buckets to plant at the lake. There are things at the home place that anchor its role in my family's life, and the vines are key among them. My Mom has told me that once mine are established at the lake, she wants them taken down, "too much trouble" for me to prune each year. We have an old drive-up grease rack that my Dad got almost sixty years ago, buying it as it sat beside a ramshackle Forties era filling station. We've moved it twice, and with one exception (Mother In-Law illness in Kentucky kept us away), every oil change in my life has happened on that rack. Many other lessons, not all automotive, were delivered there, and some were absorbed. Given cars of that era, it's narrow, so I have to hang about a third of each tire tread of my Tundra off the the edge, just as we did other full-sized pickups, not to mention the '70 Buick Wildcat and the '72 Impala. She's been a trooper, but I look forward to having a four-post lift in a future workshop. Time marches on.

Prayers for your folks, @alabama mike

 

[Bamabww]

Daddy fractured his L1 and L2 vertebrae in his back and had surgery today,

Mike, sorry to hear about your dad's fracture / surgery. Certainly pray all goes well with his recovery. Hope your mom has progressed from her stroke. She's been on our prayer list at church and I will add your dad.

It was a rough holiday season for us as well, starting two days after Thanksgiving. Two brothers in ICU at the same time for 14 days, one came home, Gary didn't and died on Christmas Eve night. He would have been 62 yesterday.

If we could find a time, I'd love to meet and eat.

 

[alabama mike]

Mike, sorry to hear about your dad's fracture / surgery. Certainly pray all goes well with his recovery. Hope your mom has progressed from her stroke. She's been on our prayer list at church and I will add your dad.

It was a rough holiday season for us as well, starting two days after Thanksgiving. Two brothers in ICU at the same time for 14 days, one came home, Gary didn't and died on Christmas Eve night. He would have been 62 yesterday.

If we could find a time, I'd love to meet and eat.

TY for adding them to the prayer list at church, much appreciated.

Sorry to read about your brother.

 

[alabama mike]

I'm so sorry for your folks' issues, a certainty as our parents age. My Mom, 83, is going to schedule a hip, post-Easter, and we can hopefully see her through a May recovery with it. Otherwise, she's in good shape and chafed at the idea of me riding her John Deere to mow the lawn ahead of and following her procedure.

I still have another hour or two tomorrow to finish pruning the scuppernong and muscadine vines at my folks, and I have three long runners reserved to root each variety in some buckets to plant at the lake. There are things at the home place that anchor its role in my family's life, and the vines are key among them. My Mom has told me that once mine are established at the lake, she wants them taken down, "too much trouble" for me to prune each year. We have an old drive-up grease rack that my Dad got almost sixty years ago, buying it as it sat beside a ramshackle Forties era filling station. We've moved it twice, and with one exception (Mother In-Law illness in Kentucky kept us away), every oil change in my life has happened on that rack. Many other lessons, not all automotive, were delivered there, and some were absorbed. Given cars of that era, it's narrow, so I have to hang about a third of each tire tread of my Tundra off the the edge, just as we did other full-sized pickups, not to mention the '70 Buick Wildcat and the '72 Impala. She's been a trooper, but I look forward to having a four-post lift in a future workshop. Time marches on.

Prayers for your folks, @alabama mike

Praying for your momma now.

 

[TerryP]

I don't think there is anything more sobering than signing POA with witnesses and your mom.

 

[rick4bama]

I don't think there is anything more sobering than signing POA with witnesses and your mom.

I do.

 

[Krimson]

I don't think there is anything more sobering than signing POA with witnesses and your mom.

Gotta be up there for sure.

 

[TerryP]

Gotta be up there for sure.

Hell man, I haven't had anything to drink since November of last year...and a beer sounds really good right now. I'm not going to touch the liquor cabinet...but good lord. It's been a day.

 

[Krimson]

Hell man, I haven't had anything to drink since November of last year...and a beer sounds really good right now. I'm not going to touch the liquor cabinet...but good lord. It's been a day.

Nice bourbon on ice at the end of the day is hard to beat.

 

[TerryP]

Nice bourbon on ice at the end of the day is hard to beat.

I'm a Scotch guy. I do have Pappy's, Double Eagle, and Blanton's on the shelf...there's another one but I can't remember the brand. It's a Spanish one...some girls name. I'd have to go look but I don't want to right now. Good stuff, though.

 

[TerryP]

some girls name.

Rebecca Creek.

 

[Krimson]

I'm a Scotch guy. I do have Pappy's, Double Eagle, and Blanton's on the shelf...there's another one but I can't remember the brand. It's a Spanish one...some girls name. I'd have to go look but I don't want to right now. Good stuff, though.

Eagle rare is my favorite obtainable bourbon. I've tried all the pappy's and they're good but I don't think the hype and price is justified. I keep Blanton's and Col Taylor in stock but normally drink buffalo trace, Elijah Craig, and Russell's reserve. Elijah Craig barrel proof is really good if you can find it. Haven't tried Rebecca creek and double Eagle is one of those bottles I just dream about. I have a brother in law that can get Pappy and about whatever but double Eagle ain't on the list.