Granddaddy Day of the Week

Today is the granddaddy day of this week with a lot of work for the volunteer position. I need to introduce myself to a school and provide identification and I have about 3-4 hours of document writing to finish this afternoon. Add a 2+ hour hair appointment that was moved to today and the garden class that had an hour added to it ... this is a long day for me.

Funny thing is for many years, this would be a piece of cake. Older? Out of practice? Who knows. 

The evening hike was a mixed bag. I enjoyed the hike a lot. Faster paced to beat nightfall, but a strange man on the hike who bugged me a lot of the way. He actually said he'd been kicked out of another hiking group because he was "flirting" with too many women. I finally separated from him the last part of the hike. The timing was hard too. I left at 4 o'clock -- home by 7:45 and hungry. I ate way too late for my immediate bedtime. The hike gets later as more daylight comes so it might be fun to do again and I'll eat before I go. That said, I'm glad I tried it and I think I'll do it again.

Here's my retirement gift. The artist is from GA, but I saw her work in Asheville. She does mixed medium art. The originals are expensive, but she was offering an inventory sale on prints from a collection she's retiring. I got print 99/100 and it's signed. I absolutely love it. Everything sold out quickly -- I was lucky to get it.

I've had a screen shot of this picture saved for a long time -- never thinking I would buy a print. It's a long, convoluted story of finding this artist in several places, having the inspiration screen shot, finding her website and noticing a sale that included the print I liked.

In-person, up close, this is so nice with lots of little details. I love to travel by train, the green bench, umbrella ... love it all. It screams retirement to me. I feel like it was meant to find its way here given the road it took. When I first saw it, I had no thoughts of an upcoming retirement date, actually purchasing it, etc. It's hung so I can see it from my desk.

Hope you have a good day. Later gators.