How to fill time in retirement

 My friend Mac Monroe has died. Although he was 20 years my senior, we had two important things in common, drinking and eating. Mac was also a story teller and truly was Mother Nature's Son. I will miss our excursions to bars and eateries. But what I learned from him will always be there. I was trying to write this while Milton was heading towards us and my only thought was that Mac probably had a few hurricane stories. But the anxiety of the potential doom, did not allow me to think straight enough to give Mac the proper send off. But now the storm has passed, and pretty much spared South Brevard, and I am still struggling to find the right words. So I will share some photos to tell my story. Me and Mac Coasters My first meeting of Mac was at the precursor to Coasters, Hubb's Pub. My boss at ENSCO, John Pitkethly, was friends with Mac from way back in the 1970s (or even earlier). Jim Austin was suffering from loosing his wife, and John and Mac were being the friends he needed ...

This year, the Middlebury Magazine started to be printed again and I started to receive my copy. Although I am not an alumni of Middlebury College, I told them that my father Harold was and my Uncle Ken was also. I have been reading the magazine most of my life and felt privileged that they agreed to send me issues. Because of the pandemic, they had stopped the hard copies and only were creating the electronic version of the magazine online. I stopped reading it. In the most recent issue, they had a small story about foxes. Apparently, they had warned the summer Language students not to feed the wild foxes that are around the town. I am not even sure if they knew if they were Gray or Red foxes. I know how similar they are because the Brevard Zoo use to have both Gray and Red in a single enclosure. I liked taking pictures of them. They had a pair of Gray foxes at Brevard Zoo. They were sisters and were named Thelma and Louise. They seemed to spend most of the daytime sleeping, but when ...

 So not much has been happening lately. I have been staying here at home a lot, and visiting the Zoo up there on Wickham Road. I have been planning to visit everywhere , but I don't think I have enough time left. Here are a few photos from my here, there and everywhere. Here I have continued collecting Life is Good tee-shirts. Here is one of my latest purchases. I drink Guinness quite often. It must have been all the Saint Patrick Day pageants when I was at Saint Mary's Catholic school in Middlebury. A little bit of Irish in me. Remember Father Mahoney? A recent photo I took in my back yard, here at home. Zebra Longwing on the Firebush. Another Life is Good tee-shirt. After retiring, my eyes have gotten better and I no longer have a prescription for glasses. I guess NOT being on a computer 8 or more hours a day is good. So I changed over to these glasses instead... Another Life is Good tee-shirt... I think I see a theme... This one is one of my favorites. When Tom and I were...