Passings...

 My 97 years old mother passed away this past Wednesday, January 19, 2002...She passed away in a rehab facility in Naples, Florida, after suffering a fall about a month ago at my youngest sister's place.  She had a stroke on Monday, and passed peacefully 48 hours later.  My wife, middle Grandson, and I had talked to her last Saturday, she was in good spirits, and alert as she always was. The lady was sharp and had a memory like a sponge, right up until the stoke...her eyes and hearing had started to go...but otherwise she didn't pass along after months or years in a assisted living facility or COVID infested nursing home...I thank God for that...

Margaret Helen Teresa DeVore was born April 13, 1924 in Chester, PA, she lived her childhood in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from P.S. Dupont High School, in Wilmington, in 1942...She met my dad at the end of WWII when he was stationed in Newark, Delaware, they married in Ohio on January 5, 1946...Dad passed away on Christmas Eve 1972...by her choice mom never remarried, and after her retirement, she and our cousin, traveled much of the world for over a decade, she lived in Ormond Beach, Florida, for 30 winters, in Ohio from May through December, and finally in Naples at sister's place, on the Gulf of Mexico, for the last 14 months of her life, and a good life it was.

She lost my older Brother Mike a few years ago in 2016, she is survived by me and my two younger sisters, 8 Grandchildren, 6 Girls and my two Sons, and 9 Great Grandchildren, 5 boys {including my 3 grandsons}, and 4 Granddaughters ... Rest in Peace Mom, you have deserved that, after a long a glorious life, that others would envy.

Photos-Mom and me in front of my Grandma's House at Scott, Ohio, in 1949... 
and on her 94th Birthday in Naples, Florida, in 2018...

Welcome 2022...And the Workfree Me...

 

Hard to believe that it was nearly 15 years ago, July 2007, that I started this Blog...the first few years I was posting over 200 stories and comment pages each year, the past decade things have slowed way down...but I check on this puppy at least once a week, and if I feel the need to get something off my chest, or to post new adventure photos, I can still do that on occasion.

As I approach 73 in March, things over those 15 years have changed me and the world...long time retired from full time work {retired at 53 from the Van Wert County Health Department in the Summer of 2002}. I decided to end all "jobs" for pay on January 1st...the security company I was working part time for, and making enough for vacations, motorcycle adventures, cigars, and good craft beers, decided to "Go Full Biden/COVID Bullshit" and require that everybody employed be "Jabbed" or Tested Weekly if refusing to get stuck...so I told them to "Stick It"  While the extra few thousand a year {I made $13,500 in 2021} was nice for what I needed, I really don't need the money, and sure the Hell won't go along with that Demented Fool in the White House or "Adolph Fauci" on their Masking and Jabbing...as a Retired Biology Guy, it's Bullshit and the recent upswing in the "Vaccinated" getting COVID is proving my point...despite what Twitter, Fakebook, the Lame Stream Media, and Left, might tell you...

So 2022 it appears will see me in Full Time Retirment, giving me more time to ride, fish, some good Cigars, and enjoy some backyard Beers...and perhaps,

maybe, to come up with some old stories from my past, that I have long ago forgotten or neglected on purpose...

So: "Let's Go Brandon" FULL STEAM into 2022

back later>>>>