Retirement

Retirement. Hmmm. The first couple weeks felt mostly like vacation but I'm starting to get used to the concept that I don't have to go to work anymore...and everyone else is a little crabby about that! Surprisingly, though I thought I'd spend a lot of time sleeping in, I've been wide awake at 7:30 most mornings. The really nice part of that is that I can choose to stay in bed or get up at my pleasure. Ah...yes...this is what they've been telling me about. Chris arrived from Tucson last Saturday and Ken & Linde are back from Mexico so we had a big party on the boat Saturday night. It was originally intended as just a 'welcome back Ken & Linde' deal with a few friends but morphed into a "G Dock Extravaganza"! The boat looked like a war zone the next morning but a good time was had by all. Chris & I have been busy buying parts & pieces and he's knocking off the projects one by one. He has to make one last trip to Tucson next week for his surgery but then he'll be back for good. We went racing on Sugar Plum last night and that was a nice break. I'll miss the racing but Rod announced that he's going to sell S.P. so that would be the end of that era anyway. Besides...the plan is to take Faith to Mexico - not stay in Portland for buoy racing!