Working can be a hobby, or at least fun… Also 57 yrs of marriage today!

I get accused of being a work-a-holic at times. I guess it is true. But it is always what I like to do or I would not spend so much time at it.

Shirl was commenting that a lot of folk admired the fact I could do so many things. It is a fact that many folk are jacks-of-all-trades.  But consider the latter part of that, which is ignored that says: ----- “but master of none.”  That is a  pretty honest  statement.

I was a good trumpet player, but I would not practice enough to be VERY GOOD. I was a fair computer repairman, but I would not study enough to be an EXPERT. Don’t laugh now, I was a pretty good preacher, but not anywhere near exceptional. I was a good teacher but I would not study technique and theory to become exceptional. I was a fair chalk artist and entertainer, but I would not practice enough to be a REAL ARTIST. I was also a ventriloquist, good, but not willing to spend the hours in front of a mirror to ‘perfect sketches’. I loved flying by the seat of my pants. I am a fair electrician, plumber and land scraper. I am a neophyte at body repair and auto mechanics.

I have sewn one dress to prove I could do it. I made kites to prove I could do that. I am a weak painter and a fair appliance repairman. I rode one bucking horse to prove I could do it and at Sherry’s insistence hiked 1850 miles from Georgia to New Hampshire. I have rebuilt two engines to show I had that ability.  But none of this was the level of expert.

One day in my 60’s I decided there was one thing I needed to do RIGHT, and that was to be a husband to my wife. I have never put forth the effort to be an expert in any field as I should have. So for the past 12 or so years, I have TRIED to be the best husband I could be. Honest. If you have read my stuff for a while, you will remember while I have been trying,  that one night I had an Epiphany. A realization that I would have nothing, or be anything in life without Sherry. That was not junk, or puff, but TRUTH.  She has been the perfect wife, a great mother and an understanding lover.

It was time I became VERY GOOD at something, and that was to be the BEST HUSBAND to this lovely lady that I could be. So I am trying, I am making AN EFFORT. She deserves the best, because SHE IS! I love you  sweetheart on this our anniversary….

Thanks for coming this way.

Nite Shipslog.

PS:

(Singing ‘Memories are Made of This’, at our 50th anniversary)

On September 22nd, we will have been married for fifty-seven years, HEY, there was a time I didn’t think I would even live that long. 

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This Chevy was a Classic. We were married in 1956, not many classics that year, but the ‘57 was just coming out………….

Yep, to many folks, that 57 is THE Classic….