DECISIONS, DECISIONS

The last couple of months have brought some pretty big changes in my life. I have finally made it to the “promised land” of retirement. I don’t think it has really sunk in, because I pictured myself skipping when I made the final clock out from the plant where I have spent the last 25 years of my working life.

I just knew that I would be able to shoot all day long, except when taking naps, and tinker on designing new reactive targets, my second favourite hobby. Mother Nature has dialled up the thermostat so much that I don’t enjoy more than a few minutes at a time on my backyard range or in my garage working on targets.

But cooler weather will be here before you know it and maybe then I will realise the satisfaction of “being off the clock”.

Another bonus that retirement brought, to my great pleasure, was the insistence from my better