Happy People

With us living on our boat in a country like Guatemala in the Western Caribbean a lot of people from the US sees this as a poor country and to be honest, Einstein, when ask how to measure anything he said you need something to compare it to. Is it really big are small compared to what? What system are you using to measure with? Remember Pam and I are boat people living on boats most of our lives now and the term not used in navigation came from using a string with knots spaced equal an hour glass to tell how fast a boat was moving. How many knots would pass through your hand if you threw the line over pulling it through your hand as the sand ran through the hour glass. With traveling as we have for years now, how do you measure how poor are the people we see as we travel? I guess everyone sees being rich as what you have or what you can buy. Here I enjoy watching how people live without having a lot. How happy they seem with what they have. Pam and I have been married all these years but here seeing young people maybe on a date with very little watching how happy they are with simple things like buying and then enjoying being together eating ice cream. I remember how happy I was picking Pam up with us going on a date and you see that here with a boy and girl on a motor bike. Girl on the back holding on the to the guy and you can see how happy they are. Can you measure how poor people are without how happy they are. Healthy and happy has always been Pam and I way of measuring how rich we are. I have put in lots of our blogs we have heard most of our married life that we live hard. When we are traveling up north sailing along when the weather turns cold and we are setting near our little pot-belly wood heater on our boat nice and warm.

We are proud of our little pot-belly heater.

Are we living hard because we don’t have central heat an AC. Pam and I ran way when she was only 15 and got married. A week later we moved out of my mothers house on our own with me just 17. That first night her grandmother gave us a used frying pan and a pot with a lid. We stopped at a dime store and bought 2 plates 2 forks and one spoon. I had lied about my age and had a job. I had my own bedroom suit. I rewired an old stove and got one burner working and we were set. How rich were we really being that young, together forever now and that happy with almost nothing. Even today it’s the little things that are part of our happiness. Years ago we were given a dink that was headed to the trash. All the wood was rotten and mostly gone and it was tore in tow pieces. Every one saying what in the world you want with that. Today with some work our little dink has brought us lots of happiness. Her name is Dumpling.

We have Dumpling looking GOOD.

We may be old and poor in the eyes of most but we are happy. Maybe all we really have is memories and the rest is old and now worth much but what memories we have. Remember me saying picking Pam for a date. We met on Halloween 61 years ago. What and adventure it has been.

                                       The Adventure of Lie Goes On

 

Fun In Guatemala

We are still in Guatemala on our boat working on getting her back in the water. Lots to do. Where we are you can see the bridge over the Rio Dulce river. Just past that bridge is the towns and where we need to go to get what we need here. They have little vans they call a bus here that run only during the day on the half hour going to town but if we want to go to the other side of the bridge.

The bridge across the Rio Dulce

It’s walk or take a tuck-tuck. A little 3 wheel cab but trying to get one to come back to get you sometimes can be a pain. All this stops at dark so we need our dink back in the water and it needs work. With all this work it’s hard to just stop sometimes as they say and smell the roses.

Bred Fruit Tree

Here in the boat yard is a bread fruit tree and of course there are banana trees ever where. Life in general is different here than the US.

Fun Day At the Hot Water Falls

We Took a day off and went to the the hot water falls. We had been there before and it has changed. They had a flood some time back and the pool under the falls has filled in and the hot water is not over your head any more but it is still beautiful. We had been there years before with friends that speak very good Spanish. On the way there in the van they call a bus was full and people were hanging out the side just like you see in the moves. Some how being there with our friends that speak Spanish people on the bus stared taking care of me. There at the falls people were taking care of me all day. I had hurt my back and was moving slow but I didn’t know why so many people were helping me. Later I found out my friends on the bus told all the people there I was dyeing and going to the falls was on my bucket list. What, friends we have. Funny now but at the time I felt some what embarrassed with the attention I was getting. I put in our blog last week if you feel the weight of the world you can always stop and see flowers. As I have said all ready with life different here riding the little van bus yesterday to town, I have hurt my back again and I sat near the side door and Pam sat near the back so I could get out easy. Remember this is just a van with 3 bench seats behind the driver. Along the way stopping picking up people. As they say here, How many people can ride in a van? Always at least one more. I ended up with my back to a women holding a little girl (If the kids can set in someone’s lap they do not have to pay for them to ride, Sometimes they will just set the little ones in our laps and smile.) With the seat full pushing against her holding on with maybe 3 inches of seat left so I wouldn’t fall out the door. On the last stop with me holding on myself I held out my arm to help and older women on and she sat down with just inches of seat herself on the seat behind me holding to me thanking me for the help her and some how interacting with these people makes me feel alive. Maybe this is crazy to some people but to Pam is always with me, I feel the adventure of life living like this. We are getting old living this way but happy.

 

                                   The Adventure of Life Goes On

 

In Guatemala

Being back on our boat and things not going well and need a break there is always flowers to see here. Always. There is so much that is different from the United States here in Guatemala in the Western Caribbean. Scream if you think mentioning the difference in people is racialist, but people are different. There is a reason why we have spent so much time here in this part of the Caribbean and it is the people here. We never have trouble with the Guatemalan people our trouble uselessly is with gringos from other countries coming here on their boats and how different they can be. I won’t say much and get people mad at us that say we are all born equal but would you at my age, I will be 78 soon, go in a grocery store wearing flip-flops and only, little Speedo swim pants? It’s common with these people from a country in Europe. People are different in lots of ways. Here one of the things is gold teeth. There is, now this is going to make some people scream, a gay-guy here so different you can see he is different as he is walking up to you. All, his teeth are covered in gold and to me it looks scary some how when he tries to talk to Pam and I. I been told by people that went to collage and know how to think now that they have been to collage and it’s self expression. Before we came back down here from the US we had our last meal at a restaurant before we got on the plane and there the girl waiting on us had 13 face piercing. Here they’re not into face piercing yet anyway. I have put this in a lot of our blogs a most of women here are really small. They always dress up and not down like a lot of girls do in the US now. This to me is like the flowers down here. All these girls and women here trying to look nice. Some how this has a calming effect on me. Always bananas and these are like flowers to me.

Banana Plant

Pretty Flowers

Different types of flowers all around us.

Our Life Style

We have heard all the comments all our life that Pam and I have lived hard with our life style and now with us getting old our, future is, growing dim but what an adventure it has been. Looking back or looking forward we still have dreams and we know ourselves dreams do come true.

                                            The Adventure of Life Goes On

 

 

Back Aboard Pamela Ann

We are back in-county, back in Guatemala going to our sailboat and home for most of our lives now. Trip back on budget airlines can be very tiring. Left our little house out on the prairie at 11 o’clock Sunday morning. Five hour drive to airport getting there 3 hours early for international flight. It was Monday afternoon before we were in our room in a hotel in Guatemala City. No sleeping in an airport with all the noises and things happening there. We had a 10 hour layover in Orlando, Florida. Thirty-two hours up with no sleep. Up early Tuesday morning eating breakfast, cab ride making the 9 o’clock bus for a 6 hour trip to the little town of Fronteras. Then to get on to our boat a friend we saw in town took us on to our boat in his car. Four months away from our boat. The first day back adventure of how to get things back in order to live well. To make things more fun it stared to rain hard. Trying to get what we brought back with us on the boat and keep it dry another adventure. Remember we are in a boat yard working on our boat. Now we are living 12 feet above the ground there in the boat yard. This means climbing ladders. Remember I got a new knee last Christmas and it is not working, well.

Veggie stand

Buying vegetables on the street.

Women here carry most of what they carry on, their head down here.

People loaded in trucks to go back to their homes. We counted 3 truck loads.

People coming to town and going back up in the hills and jungles riding in back of small trucks. Standing room only. Maybe to some these people are poor but to us they are a lot like us they’re happy with how they live. Waiting on the vans they call a bus we have never had trouble dealing with happy people old dogs and kids. Scream all you want, some Europeans are hard by nature to get along with. The locals here call all white people, Gringos. I sometimes walk with a cane now, going to town with Pam shopping. Standing around with my bad knee the cane helps. It’s home made out of teak and some what different. The young boy in this picture wanted to see it and put it under his arm like a crunch. This had every one laughing and making their picture was entertaining to them.

Happy kids

Time only goes in one direction and we are getting old but the adventure of life is still great to us. We still have dreams of what we want to do and we are working to make them dreams come true. I was complaining about getting old working so hard and a young woman here ask me if I was happy. Made me think and yes bad days and good days I think we are both very happy with our life and how we have lived most of our lives.

                          Sailboats and big dreams what is wrong with that?

                                    The Adventure of Life Goes On

Pamela Ann in the boat yard.  Pam taking water onboard.

 

Traveling Soon

We are headed home soon to our sail boat in the Caribbean. We are still at out little house out on the prairie where it is becoming more our home to us as we spend more tine here. Summer are good here with how hot the Caribbean can be living on a boat. To our first time readers Pam and I have lived on boats longer than we have lived in houses. There is nothing as constant as change. We are getting older now and our needs are changing but our love for our life style is still as strong as our love for each ether. The trip is getting harder each time we leave our boat to here and go back. The way we have always lived has not been good for our bank account. One funny note in our life style is Pam is a shopper and if you know something about us from our blogs you know we ran away when she was 15 and I was 17 and got married. Pam had never had an allowance or had money to spend on her own but my first paycheck she said. I’m better at shopping than you with me being a girl so I will handle our money. Now 60 years later that hasn’t changed. We have always kept good credit if we needed it but if we have a little extra money we go do something. We have family members that say we have always lived hard.

Pamela Ann resting at a dock.

I guess with our old now home built boat we designed and built ourselves, with us living without a washing machine and a built in dish washer we are living hard. Stopping some where working hard saving money stocking the boat for our next trip. One note here even if you’re working hard there is an adventure in stocking the boat. Finding simple thing on sale that you know is cheap not just mark down like razor blades. Buy a year supply at one time. Having a well stock boat is like money in the bank. Remember I’m not the only one needing a razor. Pam is not living in a swimming suit with hairy legs kind of girl. Another note, Pam is the only girl I know that can wear out a bathing suit. Now with the change from when we stared sailing it is getting harder to make a living working on sails traveling on our boat. The change is in how boats have changed over the years. When Pam and I stared dreaming about living on a boat most boats were around 30 feet. Today any one trying to live on a boat under 30 feet makes people laugh. Our boat is 46 feet on deck and 61feet over all. Not considered a big boat now. Most sails today are so big and heavy we need a bigger sewing machine. A machine that big cost more than we spent our first year traveling on our first sailboat. Pam and I have had a lot of careers in our long life together and have had a lot of adventures the way we see it. Maybe a new adventures is coming, Our boat is in a boat yard and we have replaced her motors. During the COVID-19 pandemic we needed to come back to the US. Really difficult to do. Getting back to our boat even harder. Had a friend watching our boat hooking up our power one hour a week to keep the batteries up. The sectary there thought we were steeling power and cut the power off on the dock when our friend found out what she had done now the battery were under water now with the heavy duty battery charger on one hour a week it destroyed the battery and electrolysis destroyed all the aluminum on the motors. The water over the floor when we finely were allowed back in Guatemala the interior of the boat need serious work. Its always money and time. With all this time we are just now getting the boat back in shape. The new careers is just a maybe with getting the boat back to the us and in boat shows along with my art and writing.

                                             The Adventure of Life Goes On

 

Tweety Bird

Painting of Farm Girls

 

 

 

 

What It’s Like Building A Boat

Last week I said I would tell more about us designing and building our sailboat Pamela Ann. In designing her I’m not a navel artistic let me make that clear. I hope this don’t sound like a brag but I have all my life been good with my hands and always doing art work. In the old days most of the best engineers were artist before degrees from some schools were so important. I come from a long line of carpenters, builders and people that worked with there hands. Going to a trade school for a short time I learned to read blue prints. With doing art all my life drawing plans for anything I wanted to build is just drawing to scale. Now drawing what we needed in a sailboat I used what I had learned from old time boat builders, I talked to and books along with having sailboats and sailing for a long time. One thing I do believe in is there is no perfect boat. You needed to build a boat for what you planned to use it for. A fast race boat with a fend keel and a spade rudder can be fast and easy to handle but can be seriously damage if you run it aground and storage for what you need to carry with you is very limited. I chose a wedge keel not for if I ever run aground but when we run aground. Less likely to be damage and easier to get off. I won’t go through how we designed the whole boat but it took a lot of research. Simple to fix was what we needed if something did break was a must. One thing we didn’t have a plan for with us building the boat was how many people would criticize us for almost anything we were doing. From it’s design with me only having made the eight grade in school to the materials we used to how long it took to build it. Even today the comments after all these years can very from our boat is worthless being home-built to it being a classic and shows well being a fully rigged top sail schooner. How ever someone sees it she has taken us on some great adventures and it has history now. They used it in the series Dawson’s Creek on TV. It has been in the Great Chesapeake Schooner race, a mention in Cruiser’s World magazine, appeared 118 times in print from articles to something in news papers. One of the biggest problems in building was money. We had to raise the money for ever piece we used to build with. There were times when it seemed hopeless, trying to find away to buy or get what we needed. We can’t tell about all the times this happen in this blog but this is a good example. I wanted wooden mast and finding the type of wood glue and what we needed to build the mast cost several thousand dollars. A women we helped a lot there in town died and with out us knowing about left enough to come close to what we needed. Building the mast we still needed to buy enough materials to build a table jig to build the mast in. Another man it town had a old house trailer he needed scraped and tore down so he sent some of his employees to do it and they disassemble it piece by piece. He had a fit when he found out they had all the 2x4s stacked neatly. He meant for them to take a chain saw to it. He gave me the 2x4s and I built a table 40 feet long with pieces of plywood every two feet to form the mast and it didn’t stop there. When the mast were build in Pam’s sail loft we needed to move them out in the parking lot. After we stopped working in the afternoon so I could sand them out and finished them. Moving them only cost us a few beers. Then it got even crazier when we needed to move them to the boatyard to be put in the boat. I ask the chief of police if he had any problem with how I wanted to move them. He said he didn’t want to even hear how crazy it was with how I was going to do it when I told him. Later he came by and said, when you planning to do this. I told him and he said, don’t you ever say you talked to me about this but they won’t be any police on that streets that after noon. I had to get some friends to help load the mast. I used a pickup truck laying a 4X4 across the bed with the tailgate down and hung the mast on a rope so it would swivel. The other end I placed on my dolly I used to move my cutting torches with, tied securely with a rope. This meant the back of the mast was about a foot of the road. We left and only had to get across the main street coming into town and we were on a side streets the rest of the way going to the marina. As we made it across and turned on the first side street there were about 20 people on bicycles with flags and lights following us like this was a parade. I can only wonder what we looked like with the rig I was using to move this 40 feet long perfectly round highly varnished mast with all these people on bicycles behind us moving along very slowly to the marina. Now Pamela Ann is a schooner and we had to do this twice. Schooner have two mast. I was told the large fork lift they use to put boats in the water would be $65 an hour. We put them in the next day with lots of people there some helping some in the way but that afternoon Pamela Ann had mast in place setting peacefully in her slip on the waterfront. There was lots of criticism as it has always been but the boatyard only charged us for one hour and it took a long time getting them in. There was help there when we needed it and the chief of police did stop by walked up looking at the mast in place never said a word but he winked at me as he got back in his police car and left.

Pamela Ann setting at the dock with her mast installed.

I said Pamela Ann has taken us on some real adventures but building her and it taking us ten years to do it was an adventure in itself. There us more crazy things we had to do building her but remember she was built for sure not assembled. We built it all, steering wheel, mast and her rigging, cut and made her sails.

The Steering Wheel  we made for Pamela Ann. We have been using it for a lot of miles.

Wonder where the name came from. If you read our blog I think you know. The adventure is still there with us getting old. To our friends in the Caribbean, Pam and I will be back on the Pamela Ann soon.

                                               The Adventure of Life Goes On

This picture was made about two months into the building of the Pamela Ann.

 

Life Here and There

I have put in a lot of our blogs I’m glad I have never had a mistress. When you have two loves in your life it can complicate your life. Never had that problem with another women but there are other things in life I do love. Another thing I have in our blog a lot is Pam and I have been married 60 years and counting with the day we met coming up in October and from that day forward I knew she was and still is my dream girl. That said with the other things in my life I love we are still here in Kansas at our little house out on the prairie with our old home built sailboat in a boatyard in the Caribbean.

Hauling the Pamela Ann out of the water in the boatyard with it raining.

If I had to use logic with us getting old and had to choose one over the other the most logical thing to do at our age would be this little house. No need to explain this house it’s just us and how we like to live. Small but with just what we need to live cheap and well.

Our Little House on the Prarie

Things to do out here. We like to do we can’t do in the Caribbean. Hunting, car shows, little theaters, a long list. But as I was saying there are things we love about living on our boat and cruising around. Even the simple living we need to live well on a boat. Mostly what people say they would like to do living off the grid until they try it. Remember dreaming and what it is really like to live that way is not the same. A good example, baking bread in a small boat anchored somewhere with no air stirring and it’s really hot where the temperature changes very little at night. You have to love the simple life to do it and most people just love the dream not the doing. Just learn to make drop biscuits with what you’re cooking on a grill outside as it is getting dark and set in the cockpit to eat. With our dream to go cruising we bought a production sailboat and it didn’t work for us. We decided to design and build us a boat the way we wanted. Very few people ever finish a boat they start and we found out why. The few that do finish a boat if there is such a thing as finished very seldom take it very far from where they built it. We haven’t taken our boat that far I guess. With a family member asking me not to long ago how many trips we had made around the world. Remember dreaming and doing. Would I like to be in a round the world race non stop so I could say I sailed around the world? Could not pay me to do that. If we had a trust and didn’t have to ever work in my life and could cruise from one place to another all the way around the world now that would be a dream. In building our boat, it was, you think you know how to do this and why is it taking you so long. Working a full time job to live and how much time do you have to work on your boat along with what money you have you can spend on your boat with what it takes to live. It took us ten years before we left on our maiden voyage. Even leaving then it was not like we wanted but Pam being Pam she said, “We are going.” It was pure determination that got us as far as we went but we did it. Next time I will post what we did. With it being crazy, scary and an unbelievable adventure.

                                          The Adventure of Life Goes On

 

Old Cars and Trucks

The last few days and maybe the last few weeks have been crazy, Pam has been sick with swollen and painful left shoulder. Like a little bird with a broke wing. Went to a doctor and had to go back. She is feeling better now.

Sick Truck

Along with this our old truck we over hauled two years ago we thought had a stuck ring it stared using oil so bad so we tore it back down again to find it was bad rings we bought on line. Maybe not all the problems. We used a block that had been bored 30 over in our son’s junk yard. Out here in the country most farms have a junk yard, Some with amazing cars they just kept when they bought another car. Double checking everything the top and bottom of the cylinders were worn more that the middle this means the rings were flexing and may have been a factor in the overhaul not lasting any longer that it did. Went to see an expert in a machine shop and he ask me if the ring still had tension and were they sharp. I said no and the ring would cut you trying to get them off the piston. He said he had a waiting list of 3 month before he could bore the original block but he had a friend. A longer drive there. He said when he bored the block, 30 over it wouldn’t do it so it needed to be bored 40 over. We needed new pistons. Our son said he would foot the bill so he had the crank turned ten/ten, new cam the works and now the old worn out original motor is new again.

We are still in the process of doing the rebuild on the 1972 truck motor. But it is looking Great with a few new chrome parts.

This is common out here for people to pay the price to keep what they’re driving running and you see it here. This is really true with trucks out here. Mostly trucks past 1960 models you see every day. Some tired some like new. Our truck looks good and we do get comments driving it. A 1972 utility truck with no chrome. Six cylinder with a granny 4 speed and a utility bed. Bought new for the town near here. Pam and I love old cars so we went to a car show near here a lot of the oldies were there. Here is a few that caught my eye. Remember they drive these cars some and you do see them on the road.

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1930  Model A Ford. Tim’s first car was a Model A. He was only 15 years old. He brought it with money he made working on other farms. He restored it and drove it around the local area he grew up in.  

 

 

Travelers and Pioneers

Pam and I were both born in South Carolina. There on the farm I was born on the barn was full of the relics of the past. Mostly what was needed in earlier times to service and maybe prosper. Even and old wagon that had rotted down and fell apart. It was for sure a simpler time back then but was it better than now. Maybe some pressure of life were not there as much as now with the media in your face like it is now but there were pressure there. Most people today don’t realize what part of people lives religion had in the past. When I stared driving a truck as a young man and making trips to other states seeing stores open on Sunday was different, people cutting there grass on Sunday. That did not happen in the deep south. There a lot of politics was based on religion. It’s changed now but thinking how it has changed how different it was in early times and the pressure it caused. People won’t talk about religion how it was at times in the passed because it’s a lot like racism and what they think people might think of them. It’s like most people won’t talk about racist’s root cause. I myself have lived as an old man now in my late 70s with Pam always by my side in lots of different places. Remember I said lived not just been there passing through. Had to deal with lots of people and lots of different races with where we were born and traveling like we have on our old sailboat. Prejudice a little now maybe but still open minded. People are in deep denial if they really do believe we are all the same, think the same and the big thing live the same. Being off our boat we left in the Caribbean and spending the summer out here in our little house out on the prairie this is where people were coming in the late 1800 to make a better life for themselves with maybe the way they were thinking back then. Listening to the spin we hear every day what did people think back then and why did they come here with the hard ships it took to get here. Was it religion in some way? Going to or getting away from it, or was it pressure from family and people always pushing, You have to be rich to have a good life. Pam and I have dealt with that our whole life living the way we love to live with people saying. “We live hard.” Living some what off the grid when we were younger raising our only child on a large lake in a log cabin Pam called a house and it was more house than a cabin we designed and built ourselves cutting the trees and going at it. The adventure was definitely there with that. Later living on our old home built sailboat we built people said we would never finish and we didn’t know what we were doing and we would never go sailing the pressure was always there.

Heading West

This is the out side rim for a large wooden spoked wheel. Maybe off  a prairie schooner. Prairie schooners got their name from the white canvas cover which gave the apperance from a distance of a sailing ship known as a schooner.

Here is and old rim off of of someone’s prairie schooner that could have made the trip out here. What stories it could tell if it could talk. Watching TV or movies is not history and history is written by people that can and in some cases do put a hard spin to it for political reasons. Control the mind, control the masses. Me trying to cut through all that I’m sure there was a lot of different stories with what really happen and over looking the hardships I’m sure was there. Just think about the adventure it was coming out here to the unknown in a wagon. Better life or not I would bet the adventure was there. Living for the adventure always we are getting older now but what we are working on out here could be an adventure. Explain more later.

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Below is some items we found that the pioneers might have used:

This is called a single tree. They were used to hang up a larage animal, when someone was butchering a large animal.

This is a tool known to be used for installing  frowed wood shingles or shakes. It would have had a handle in it when used.

Summer on the Prairie

Still here in Kansas and not on our boat that we left in the Caribbean. Summers in the Caribbean are brutal and they are not set up to handle the heat like we are here in the US. Here where we are at our little house on the prairie for the summer the living is easy. In our blogs people say they like to to hear what it is like to go places we go. I heard a man one time say he had been to Texas and he was not impressed. He went on to say he flew into Huston and had a layover for a few hours so he and a fellow passenger went away from the airport and had lunch. That was it for him and he had seen Texas. Any one that has traveled much knows if your driving through a small town and you see a drunk on the street it does not mean it’s a town of just drunks. As far as Texas and how different it can be it will take a lot of traveling to see all of Texas. Pam and I spent some time when we were young crossing Texas pushing big rigs together as a team. Running from coast to coast just getting across Texas took some time. Texas changes more I think than any other state in the US as you travel around. So how could you say you seen Texas only being there for a few hour near the airport. Being here in Kansas is some what like what I was saying about what some places are like. It changes as you move around. I’m not fond of cities anywhere and here in Kansas the bigger towns all seem alike to me. Busy with lots of crazy people to deal with. We enjoy being out in the country when we’re here. This is one thing I like being here is small towns and what they’re like. Last weekend we went to a rodeo in a small town 40 miles from here. On the way we were laughing about the heavy traffic. Saturday evening and we met 2 cars driving 40 miles on the way on a state road.

Open country on a state road. Not a back road.

Cowboys getting ready to rope some steers.

Sunset at the rodeo. Everyone waiting for the bull rides. Nine attemps. No go. The bulls won.

This rodeo is typical of how it goes out here. Maybe 300 people there at least showing up for a rodeo in town where maybe 20 people live full time. Not a big crowd but it was a good rodeo. Some really bad ass bulls. There is something about rodeo and dirt track car racing every where but here in farm and ranch country, it brings out a different crowd. Boys with there Saturday night dates and lots of pretty girls. Girls dressed and looking so nice with well dressed clean cut men in western wear. It feels wholesome to me seeing this. Remember I said it changes as you move around. This is not like going to Walmart. So much has changed from when I was young. Even today Pam would not be seen out in public on a bet in what some people wear here or in these big town or cities. Living this far out is great for us. When Pam and I were dating 60 plus years ago not 50 but 60 years. She would be dressed up if her mother let us go for a short car ride.

Full Moon

Pam is a moon watcher. The full moon can be something to see out here with low humility and little light clutter. Full moon over the weekend so we went for a short truck ride out in the country side to watch it come up. Life is good and the living is easy.

                                        The Adventure of Life Goes On