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 Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: Gary Olson]
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06/15/22 09:58 PM
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Biscuit
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In the first week or so after retirement how many of you still felt the pull to get up at the same time every morning or steer in the direction of work when out and about? The first 8 weeks of retirement I packed the entire house into boxes and moved to the Ozarks. Steering back to work was not anywhere near my mind. Now I enjoy summers getting started in the gardens at 7 AM, done by 10, eat and nap till 1PM. Too many fun and interesting things to do around the acreage and in the forest to think about previous work. No meetings, memos, arguments, or justifications requests required to build an 8' x 8' x 3' container garden and plant whatever grows. Fun to watch the deer and new fawns grazing in the back 5 acres. The cats haven't figured out deer yet. But they did tree a ground hog last week. Sounds like heaven
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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06/15/22 11:20 PM
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Huntmaster
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You don’t “care” what anybody thinks…anywhere, anytime. Nobody impresses you with what they got, and you don’t work for money for any reason.
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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06/16/22 12:34 AM
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Dave Davidson
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I’m 79 and have been retired 7 or 8 years. We are debt free. Wife(child bride) retired about 6 months ago. Both drawing social security, have a couple of rent houses so $ isn’t much of a problem. Well, it could become a problem if wife keeps wanting to go to casinos. We live a pretty simple life anyway.
We enjoy taking long drives just to look at scenery. Left Fort Worth and drove up to Oklahoma City 3 days ago.
A long time ago I bought 133 acres just South of Bowie. All trees, rocks, hills and a couple of stock tanks. Either recreational property or junk land. We have a mobile home and a bunch of stuff there; 4 wheelers, tractors, shipping containers, shooting range, etc. We are spending quite a bit of time there.
Seems like we spend too much time going to doctors. Nothing serious.
Last edited by Dave Davidson; 06/16/22 12:35 AM.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 01:25 AM
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freerange
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It’s been a tough week, but somebody had to do it. …..You know you’re retired when……your Monday looks like this….> ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/08/full-45514-358002-2df3f86f_07f1_4b30_bd0b_719055b0eedb.jpeg) Your Tuesday looks like this…. > ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/08/full-45514-358003-129b23a8_2e9d_46b3_aca2_7a8990c275d1.jpeg) Your Wednesday looks like this….> ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/08/full-45514-358004-10d4a4b2_76d0_4bba_ae2e_9b85d9c67b6f.jpeg) ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/08/full-45514-358005-23bd3be2_bc18_4980_bed1_d89ff255cc58.jpeg) And Thursday is checking game cams for first time and then trying to get a rifle to JG and home to open up my new RF binos and scope. Worked an annual physical in there with EKG somewhere and crossed the Red River 6 times. Let’s see, wonder what I’ll do fri, sat sun…..?
At some point in life its time to quit chasing the pot of gold and just enjoy the rainbow. FR
Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 01:27 AM
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DQ Kid
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You know you're retired when you talk about how many weeks you'll be in the stand as opposed to days....
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 10:27 AM
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tlk
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It’s been a tough week, but somebody had to do it. …..You know you’re retired when……your Monday looks like this….> Your Tuesday looks like this…. > Your Wednesday looks like this….> And Thursday is checking game cams for first time and then trying to get a rifle to JG and home to open up my new RF binos and scope. Worked an annual physical in there with EKG somewhere and crossed the Red River 6 times. Let’s see, wonder what I’ll do fri, sat sun…..? Watch your back unloading all that feed and filling feeders - hopefully you have some help with you!
You can't fix stupid
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 11:24 AM
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GasGuzzler
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You know you’re retired when….you got time to just pull over and post on THF. West outa Gainesville to Muenster and north to Okla is one of the most beautiful drives ever. Must be lots of Dallas money up here to semi manicure this country. Pastures look more like golf courses. Lots of hay been baled. Remarkable how it’s one high vista after another. Seems like one high point should block the view from others but they just keep rolling one after another. Literally takes my breath away.
Then Robert Earl Keens Feeling Good Again came on and I thought I was in Heaven. Well, surely there won’t be wind turbines in Heaven…. It's oil money. It's NOT from Dallas. We're being raided way less than our counterparts along 75. I'll probably get to retire at 80 so I only have 30 years left. At least my house will be paid for by then.
Pass the gravy.
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 02:48 PM
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Judd
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I'm tired just looking at those pictures 
Don't let your ears hear what your eyes didn't see, and don't let your mouth say what your heart doesn't feel
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
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08/11/22 10:05 PM
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Nickbyrd
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Just re read this whole thread . As a yute with no retirement in site I’m unbelievably jealous lol 
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: tlk]
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08/11/22 10:39 PM
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Creekrunner
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It’s been a tough week, but somebody had to do it. …..You know you’re retired when……your Monday looks like this….> Your Tuesday looks like this…. > Your Wednesday looks like this….> And Thursday is checking game cams for first time and then trying to get a rifle to JG and home to open up my new RF binos and scope. Worked an annual physical in there with EKG somewhere and crossed the Red River 6 times. Let’s see, wonder what I’ll do fri, sat sun…..? Watch your back unloading all that feed and filling feeders - hopefully you have some help with you! They seem to move/install tower blinds as a separate and distinct hobby. Doesn't anyone on that place say "Hey, this set up will do me for a few years"? And, as a doctor of a close friend (who a couple months later developed an embolism and died) once told me - No man over 50 and a ladder should ever be put together. Don't get me wrong, I love tower blinds. 
Last edited by Creekrunner; 08/11/22 10:43 PM.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: Creekrunner]
#8662403
08/12/22 02:21 PM
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Posts: 32,601
sig226fan (Rguns.com)
duck & cover
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It’s been a tough week, but somebody had to do it. …..You know you’re retired when……your Monday looks like this….> Your Tuesday looks like this…. > Your Wednesday looks like this….> And Thursday is checking game cams for first time and then trying to get a rifle to JG and home to open up my new RF binos and scope. Worked an annual physical in there with EKG somewhere and crossed the Red River 6 times. Let’s see, wonder what I’ll do fri, sat sun…..? Watch your back unloading all that feed and filling feeders - hopefully you have some help with you! They seem to move/install tower blinds as a separate and distinct hobby. Doesn't anyone on that place say "Hey, this set up will do me for a few years"? And, as a doctor of a close friend (who a couple months later developed an embolism and died) once told me - No man over 50 and a ladder should ever be put together. Don't get me wrong, I love tower blinds. I am by no means rich, but I have learned I can afford to build stairs.... couple of hundred bucks is cheap health and life insurance
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Re: You know you’re retired when….
[Re: freerange]
#8662446
08/12/22 03:13 PM
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Hudbone
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"I am by no means rich, but I have learned I can afford to build stairs.... couple of hundred bucks is cheap health and life insurance"
The ladders so shown will be held together with duct tape before Free (note the name) spends a couple of hundred smackers on stairs.
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