Good Ol" Days

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 in our Holiday Rambler, since August 2006

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Whitney Texas

        Sunday is a day rest right? Well we just gonna take it easy today, overcast cloudy a bit of wind and nothing we want to do today. So computing, coffees, walkabouts a quick dive to town to fill our water jug with purified water and back home.

        But on the way back I passed this car lot with a bunch of old cars. Good Ol' Days cars and parts so I just had to stop and peak. Suzie was not with me so that was ok.

Good Ol' Days tow truck

Project cars for sure

        Well looking around I spot a 1958 Ford, I had one of those, bought it for fifty bucks and traded it for an almost new motorcycle, 1965 Honda 90 cc, my first bike.

1958 Ford

        Lotsa Ford Rancheros here this one in pretty good shape a 1978.

78 Ranchero

same Ranchero

         Then this 1956 Ford, mine was similar, I worked on for two years and finally had it on the road when I turned 16 years old, great car. My Grandfather had bought it brand new and just loved it!

1956 Ford

         An old Ford pickup, never had one but another project car.

Ford Pickup

         Now this one a 1949 Ford, always wanted one but never got around to it. Same age as me, I think I am in a little better shape than this thou. Of course I am sure I have a "project body" too!

1949 Ford

         Now back home got me looking for pictures of some of my old cars but have none on this computer, gonna have to look into that when we get back to Ontario. But I did find some old pictures of me. Lotsa them, I picked out a few just to see if you think I have changed much over the years.

        Well yeah I guess, a lot older, less hair, a few more pounds and where did that grey come from? But it seems like only yesterday but wow 40 years ago I was playing in the sand with my kids on Prince Edward Island Canada, camping in our tent trailer on a two week vacation.

1972 Beach on PEI, me , Kim and Ken

        Then a couple years later oldest daughter Kim and I just hanging out.

1974 Kim and I

        Then another 14 years later enjoying the sun in our backyard in Plattsville Ontario, had a lot more hair then, things sure change.

me 1986 lotsa hair and no gray!

         A couple years after that I cut my hair, shaved off the beard and opened my restaurant in town (nobody knew who I was). Did that gig for 10 years, slowed down a bit, then decided time to slow down a bit.

        Then 2006 we decided enough of this slavery lets buy an Rv sell the house, live our dream and run away, see some of North America. And here we are 6 years later still running away, following the sun, but now have 5 grandchildren we need to see grow up and boy they are growing fast.

       They are getting older quickly and so are we, but I still think I am better shape than that 1949 Ford in the picture above with probably a lot more miles on me too.

 Today less hair more gray

        So enough of the Good Ol' Days, back to the rest of today, we enjoyed our books for a few hours in the afternoon and supper was a repeat of last nights supper. It was so good we just had to do it again, besides we had lotsa leftovers.

more corned beef ,cabbage and carrots, yummy

        In the afternoon the sun came in and out for a while, temperatures up to 82f (28c), windy and humid but we enjoyed every minute of it.

        Boy, its a tough live, so glad we can suffer with!

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