Our Pets

These were two of three abandon cats found in NJ by our daughter-in-law, Linda. At the time with all the animals that Jeff and Linda had Sara and I "decided to bring two of the three home with the one already promised". This is our first time in a very long time to have pets and now we can't live without these guys. P.Newman, the male, was brought home when he was just a few weeks old. Pilar was a couple of months older when we brought her back to Austin and she flew with me returning from an east coast business trip. They are brother and sister as if you cannot tell. Newman is 20+ pounds and Pilar is about 13 pounds, big for cats.

For those of you who know me well, when I talk about my drinking partner it is Pilar. She goes out on the front porch of our house with me and sits in the chair as I have my beer-30. Newman comes out also but he tends to wander like an alley cat will and I don't want the have to chase after him so he ends up back in the house, mad of course. In any case, these are my regular AA (Altitude Adjustment) drinking partners now that I am a full time retiree from IBM after 39 years, 5 months and 18 days but whose counting. For the past 4 years I had been a full time W@H (work at home) employee of IBM so that part hasn't changed but finding something to do all day may be a challenge.

POST NOTE to retirement:: retirement is 6 saturdays and a sunday --- if you have to think about this then your not ready for retirement.