On 8/20/2017 7:23 AM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> I will look in my library of canning and cooking books, some very old.
>> I'm old too so I don't remember a lot of things that we do, therefore a
>> library of the above.
>
> thanks,
>
> once i've made something once or twice i
> hardly ever look it up again.
>
>
>> I used to work shift work in a chemical plant, ran the boilers and water
>> treatment there for sixteen years. I learned early on to go to sleep
>> early and wake up to the alarm clock. Learned that from my Dad, he
>> worked shift for over forty years. That shift work and several years in
>> the USN taught me to not wait for the alarm clock. Then I went into
>> management at several companies and got used to getting up to get ready
>> to go to work and do it early.
>
> i've worked for the family company and that was
> construction/helper/truck driver/gopher/mover
> of crap/cleanup/warehouse help/answer the phones/
> etc, but once i got away from that and went to
> college i worked through college, but had flex
> time as long as the work got done. as i worked
> and lived in the same building i was always on
> call. after i finished my degree i worked
> full time and kept more or less daytime hours
> but i liked being a night owl when a bigger
> project would come up (more quiet at night)
> and then for the last six years before i quit
> full-time work i was on 24hr call but kept
> a 10-6pm schedule most of the time except
> when i needed to get a bigger project done.
>
> i am still not a morning person, but i can
> function if i have to. i just don't like a
> lot of noise or chatter until i'm more awake.
>
>
>> Went in the Navy at 17, right out of high school and worked for 47 years
>> after getting out. We had a lot of fun as we worked overseas for many
>> years. Then I started my own business and ran that for about fifteen
>> years off and on. I get anxious when I don't have anything to do. <G>
>
> with as much gardens as we've got here there's never
> a shortage of stuff to do. in the summer i'm hoping
> for a rainy day or two at least once a week so i get
> a break of some sort. doesn't always work out that
> ways. the past few weeks it has. nice to not have to
> spend time watering.
>
> the current project was delayed by rain again, but i
> hope to make more progress this morning. have to get
> out early as it will be too hot later today.
>
> ok, well, have fun
>
>
> songbird
>
My favorite job was being a gunsmith, did that from a home shop back
when I was working shift in the chemical plant. Started it to keep my
Dad busy when he retired from the refinery. My whole family, kids and
wife, helped out. Wife brought us lunch, kids swept the shop and washed
the windows for money. None of us ever believed in just giving kids
money for doing nothing but being a kid. Didn't seem to hurt them, both
are in their mid-fifties and have good paying jobs. So I did that when
my grands lived nearby. I really liked gunsmithing but it didn't pay a
lot so turned it over to my Dad when we worked overseas.

When I nearly died some years ago I gave my safety consulting business
to a very good friend in the safety business and worked for me part
time. He called me yesterday, at age 67 he is retiring and sold the
business for a hefty amount of bucks. Offered to send me half but I
don't need the money as we both have small pensions and Social Security
plus we were always squirreling away money at our credit union. He
worked harder than I did. <G>

Now we garden, take care of the grands and great grands when we can get
them. I go to the library weekly, buy the groceries weekly, wife mows,
works the stoop labor in the gardens, works the gardens at her church,
teaches elderly ladies and young kids how to paint in any type and gets
paid for the last two. Me, I read a lot of science fiction, nap with the
dog, do most of the cooking, and whatever else I can do to keep us
going. My wife's mother lived to be over 100 years, just almost 101 and
I expect my lovely wife will live at least that long if not longer. It
doesn't get much better than this live for a Texas boy. I'm having a lot
of health problems at this time but, whatever happens will happen and
it's okay with me.

George