Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The first signs of spring

Along the upper Texas coast the first signs of spring are weeds! Yes, weeds, they pop up in your grass, flower beds, and in the cracks in the pavement...everywhere! As annoying as that is, it's still a sign of spring. I am itching to rake the last of the winter leaves, put out the weed and feed, and mow the grass. I know that is just a fleeting moment...soon I'll be complaining about mowing, the heat, and weeds (summer weeds this time). You see we have weeds just about all the time...it never gets cold enough down here to kill them off.

Hummm lets see...need to put new gas and filters in the mower, edger and blower (gotta have that mechanization you know), sharpen the tools and...he mumbled as he wandered off toward the garage.

Retirees do that you know!

Welcome

I hope you will enjoy my early attempts at Blogging, an all new experience to me! I will be experimenting with the format, items to add (hopefully interesting).


I am a retired corporate pilot, thiry nine years of roaming around the world for an oil company. The Good Lord knew we would need oil...unfortunately He put it in difficult places, deserts, jungles, artic regions and every other inhospitable place you can imagin, no five star hotels there!



Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee