The holidays are here and Halloween has passed. We did go to one costume event.
Lady Butterfly
We are still in Kansas but have our tickets to go back to our boat in Guatemala in the first week of December. Pam had a birthday and mine is coming up in a couple of weeks. I have watched old people all my life and have tried to learn as much as I can from them as how to not live old. Walk old act old or live old. I try but old has got me. At 75 I’m at the crossroad of being just old but I’m fighting to be vibrant. Pam and I are very busy at this time in our life. Our son says we are busier than most people he has ever seen. I have my art and the books we are trying to find a way to publish to make money not just to say we wrote a book. So far it’s been the same with every one that says they can help. Bring us the book and we will rewrite it because you can not write a book without being trained in writing and have degrees. Give us thousands of dollars up front before we even read it and we will work on it. This is no joke. Every lead we have followed up on has been this way. Give us money. You can’t write a book with out degrees and its always the same with them not even knowing what the book is about and have never read a word in it. As for my art, I don’t have anymore shows coming up with us leaving soon but we are working on how to sell online. This too can be tricky. We do have some private viewings and this is how some arts sell to collectors. As for now we just don’t have enough money to live the high life and living simple is fine with us. Pam has a little job weighing trucks at the Grain Coop where they bring in the crops out here to sell. This harvest will be over about the time we leave and I am still doing upholstery in the big farm tractors out here. Anything to get by. When Pam and I got married at 15 and 17 I had already lied about my age and had went to work a few days past my 16th birthday in a cotton mill. You had to be 18 to work at a public job. Back then all we heard was you are too young to be doing this. Now we hear you are too old to be doing this. And artist needs to build up a following in his life and a writer needs to have a following. Building a following when you’re a private person is not my game.
Our tomato bounty. A few vine ripen ones. “Hum!Hum!
It’s going to freeze out here this week so living simply means taking in and wrapping green tomatoes for the winter. Apples and pairs, we have put in lots of our blogs how we make our own sausage and cure hams in the basement. How we make our own grits and corn meal with a hand grinder from raw corn. In this day of food stamps and food banks maybe we are just old with our way of thinking. Taking care of and knowing how to take care of your self maybe is as they say, Gone with the wind. Tonight we are having ham bone and rice. We are not eating the bone. It’s just cooking the ham bone with what is left after you cut the ham off a cured ham. Along with blackeye peas cooked slow on a rainy day and fried green tomatoes. Corn bread sticks and cold slaw. Simple food for simple folks. The adventure goes on and life is good.
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