The Abundance of the Heart

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From living many years on this earth, Ol' Dutch has noticed that if you give them the opportunity, people will pretty much tell you what they are going to do or have done.

In order to appreciate this phenomenon, you have to develop what is known as “listening skills.”

This is harder to do than one might think as it involves closing one’s mouth, which as Trixie is quick to point out, seldom occurs around Ol' Dutch. What she fails to realize is that I am trying to improve HER listening skills.

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One Man's Junk is Another's Treasures

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No matter where you go there is a phenomena that latches onto every person no matter creed or color. It’s known as “having stuff.” 

A drive through any subdivision on a Saturday morning shows you exactly what happens to the person who is not aggressive in their sorting and tossing. Soon the garage is filled to capacity and running out the door sometimes necessitating the need for a storage unit at the local facility.

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Staying Busy Doing Nothing

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All my life I had looked forward to the day I could retire and get to do exactly what I wanted to do. When that day suddenly came at an early age, I found out what other men had told me was true: it can be boring.

I now find myself on the road full-time in an RV visiting different parts of the country fishing and hunting where I go plus visiting friends and family as I choose. The good thing is about the time I start to smell like old laundry to my family, it’s time to move on to a new location.

The RV parks are in and of themselves remarkable small villages of interesting folks. My typical arrival at one of these parks goes something like this.

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A Penny for your thoughts

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Being a “project man” my favorite store is Home Depot. I just love to peruse the shelves there and think about all the things I can build or remodel.

 

I recently bought a new RV and decided to spice it up a bit by adding some interior design elements to the walls. See there, Ol’ Dutch can talk the language of a metro man when he has to.

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RVers hit the road

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It’s that time of year again when the RV'ers can be seen winding their way out of the valley back toward homes or other destinations all over this big country. This yearly exodus is usually complete by October, with some getting a jump on it leaving first of August. 

The early departures are due to grandkids starting school and anxious grandmothers light a fire under "old George,” and get him packed up and on the road so they don't miss the first piano recital or football game for little Johnny or Susie.

They load up their belongings into the modern day Conestoga wagon and before you know it, the highways become a complicated morass of elderly people heading east.  A shopping trip to Alamosa indicates that east is where most of them are going. Highway 160 morphs into an obstacle course as we must dodge camper drivers who believe their half of the road is best taken out of the middle of the highway.

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