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Re: Seasons Greetings to the Forum
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:41 am
by ARCretired
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to everyone. I’ve greatly enjoyed everyone’s postings this past year and looking forward to the next.
Re: Seasons Greetings to the Forum
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:51 am
by dusty
ARCretired wrote:Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to everyone. I’ve greatly enjoyed everyone’s postings this past year and looking forward to the next.
It has been a good year and I too am looking forward to still another year of "Making Sawdust Safely" and I hope the same for all of you.
Re: Seasons Greetings to the Forum
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:13 pm
by charlese
Wishing all of us a very happy and prosperous 2018.
Gone are the days when our family used to play in the snow all winter long. Also, gone are the days when we paid off our homes and finally have one completely paid for, where we plan to spend the rest of out years.
Wishing everyone can, and will be able to get to this very relaxing state of affairs, as we feel quite blessed and wish you the same. (if that's what you want)
Taxes? never did give a darn about them. Just refused to live our lives thinking about them. However, happy that most will be required to pay less.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Re: Seasons Greetings to the Forum
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:39 pm
by robinson46176
We paid off the last mortgage in 1995 and made the last car payment in 1972. If we didn't have the cash we didn't buy. In 1995 I made the decision to start retiring in stages, I was 53 (and I thought that was getting old
). About 10 years later I quit grain farming and several years after that I quit baling hay. That hay thing happened kind of quickly. I was baling one hot summer day with temps in the upper 90's and high humuggity when the baler jammed. I was laying on my back under the baler to fix it and I was streaming sweat like a garden hose. About that time a big batch of loose chaff and dust fell down in my face... After I got my mouth empty (and had a conversation with the baler) I said "I don't "have" to do this". I took the baler to the implement shed, backed it in and unhooked it then put the tractor away. That was my last bale...
Now we self care pasture board about a dozen horses and have 6 of our own. I'm hoping that we can keep that going for at least another 5 years. We never know... Right now I am still far more active than all of the old school chums about my age I know that still live in the area, but like I said "we never know".
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