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Yes, it's time to pack up and head back to hearth and home. I will admit to a bit of sadness crossing the brow at the end of the day. With retirement looming I don't know if I'll ever get back this way again.
But one never knows where the future will take ya, we'll just have to wait and see.
But damn it, it was a good ride.
Fair winds and following seas to the men and women of USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) it was an honor to work beside you.
Home beckons, where my love lies waiting ...
I'm homeward bound.
God willing and the creek don't rise.
You're loaded up and trucking!
ReplyDeleteLoaded up and flying. But I get it. 😁
DeleteNow I'm feeling melancholy...
ReplyDelete-Barry
Moi aussi.
Delete"God willing, and the creek don't rise." I don't hear that often. If I use it, people look at me strangely. Only author I've read who used it is Montana writer Ivan Doig, in his early Montana trilogy (English Creek, ...) which reminded me so much of my life there. Thank you for stirring my memory pool.
ReplyDeletePleasant travels, and safely home.
Thanks htom!
DeleteHey Old AFSarge;
ReplyDeleteWell Retirement is looming closer but it ain't here....Yet. As long as you are enjoying what you are doing then keep on plugging away. What gets more retirees in trouble is not having something to give them structure after retirement and annoying the spousal unit although enjoyable isn't a game plan, LOL.
"Keep On Trucking, We gonna do what they say can't be done..We got a long way to go and a short way to get there...We are downbound and watch old bandit Run....!*With Apologies to Jerry Reed*
My retirement will be organized. I have many projects awaiting my undivided attention.
Deletesounds like wife is in charge - -
DeleteShe has a totally different set of projects with which I am not involved with. Usually.
DeleteThe Creek haven't put out a war party in a while, so you should be good. Keep your seat back upright and locked!!
ReplyDeleteI had a project waiting on me when I got sick in July. They held it for me until last week. I recommended a guy to finish it off and he did a bang up job. You never know when "retirement" will catch you instead of you catching it. Be ready. Like Mr. G said, if you don't have a plan, retirement can bite you. My plan included decent health... Still working on that.
Here's to smooth sailing, Sarge.
Plans are overrated. I will improvise, adapt, and overcome!
DeleteAnytime you start to feel the need, gas your car, find I-10 and head west. When you cross I-8 take that exit and follow it out.
ReplyDeleteIt's a long trip, bring snacks.
Yes, many snacks required!
Deleteain't no sich thing as a 'tired polymath
ReplyDeleteWell, there is that.
DeleteWell, hope the Creek or the creek don't rise. Either way bad things happen. Enjoy homecoming and I hope you get a day of decompression before going into work.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, Mrs. Andrew and I learned very quickly that we needed one day after a long trip. Scheduling return of trip on day before return of work was a bad thing. As we got older, the return travel time got to include a night between 'there' and 'home' even if it was only a 6-7 hour return drive, as it was what we did during the 'relaxing vacation' and the packing up on the last day that really took it out on both of us.
Enjoy. Family. Home. Ah...........
I go back after Thanksgiving. So I've got that going for me. 😁
DeleteHave you signed up for the pre-retirement class that tells you how to put "RE" in front of "TIRED" yet? Old Guns
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
DeleteI wouldn't worry about retirement much. When I saw the sign that I posted a picture of yesterday, I immediately realized it would be as applicable to you as it was to me. And that's not a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteBesides...you've got at least 2 books to publish. That ought to keep you off the streets for a while.
At least two!
DeleteGlad you are headed back Sarge - and yes, just because you do not think you are going back - or going somewhere else - does not mean that you will not. Life has sent me a great many places in the last 20 years I did not anticipate, including (apparently) back to the Grand Canyon 40 years later to do a very different thing.
ReplyDeleteYa never know, that's true. But there is always that possibility.
DeleteOh Chris, you've got me all teary-eyed. ❤
ReplyDeleteThe old songs seem to do that, don't they?
DeleteAt first I thought the tail said "Happy Klingon's"
ReplyDeleteWhich, for a green F-4, kind of fits.
Thankfully the source link had a larger view to zoom in on......
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L.J.
Now that would be a great squadron name!
DeleteDon't know what it is about the F-4, but it always looks like a big F/U to everyone who isn't us. They were before my time in the USN but we did have an old one on deck for the plane handlers to play with. Tomcats were my girls, Ok A-6's, A-7's, and S-3's were up there, and Hornets were just starting to make an appearance. Still Love me some F-4... "with a big enough engine you can get a brick to fly"
ReplyDeleteI've always loved the F-4. It has that, "I'm going to eff you up and enjoy myself while doing so" look. At least to me it does. It's a thing of war, no more, no less.
DeleteRemember, the journey is worth the trip. We don’t really need to go but we enjoy getting a sleeper and taking the train out to the west coast and then driving back. You might also enjoy an ocean passage on the Queen Mary 2. We went from NY,NY to Portsmouth. It was all good with a week in blighty thrown in.
ReplyDeleteBoth are very enjoyable modes of travel. Very old school, Cap'n. I like the way you think.
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