Good grief!! Do All people have so many problems when they want to retire??
Officially I retired at the end of February but for one reason or another, my boss has been very reluctant to let me go and in the end, I stayed on a bit to help him out. At the beginning of August, I went to him again and said that I definitely wanted to finish up at the end of the month and that he should get someone else. Another round of discussions and instead of stopping work completely, I am still helping out three days a week. Okay, that is better than five days a week but still, there is a lot I want to be doing and this restricts my areas of travels.
I have decided to continue like this for a month or two as it gives me the chance to go up to the area where I want to work from and look for a place to set up a base camp. There is not much in the line of insects for these next few weeks anyway so maybe the situation is for the best. But by December, I need to stop ALL work!! Maybe I am just too much of a softy and when someone like my boss asks for help, I cave in and give it. Dumb!! Really dumb of me!! But that is who I am and I guess it is hard to change ones personality.
This past winter has been very normal and I looked forward to our spring rain when it came. Little did I know that it would start off last Thursday with one of the worst hail storms I have ever seen in my life!! Within the space of a few minutes, the ground was covered with a two inch layer of hail and it looked as if we had a snow storm instead. My driveway id covered with thorns and branches which were knocked off and as it continued raining the whole of Friday, I am hoping that it will dry out today as they predict sunshine so I can sweep it all up.
One piece of good news is that I bought a video camera and hope to be able to put it to good use capturing some of the action I see. I am looking forward to trying it out.
