Retire or not to retire?

Work has been slow for everyone but I am the slowest and my kind workmates have given me a little work.  This I appreciate very much because as a consultant every hour is billable and if you are not billable a high percentage of the time you go on part time or you plain go.  I am sort of at a cross roads – what to do?  There is no work in Indiana or Michigan other that what I am doing.  Manufacturing is just about down the tubes so that leaves the major employers as the local and state governments.  China is hurting us folks!

What is going on?

We left the boat Sunday evening to get back to town for the memorial Day services held in our little town.  Way back when there was a parade and a marching band and we would all march from the school to the cemetary where we would meet the American Legionnaires who would present the 21 gun salute.

Today it is a little more subdued and we have a prayer, a short speech from our State Representative (who lives in town or we would not warrant that dignitary) and a longer speach from some veteran or the Lions Club president.  Then the junior high school band plays The Star Spangled Banner and a couple of other songs and it finishes with the 21 gun salute.  Small town stuff but I was brought up believing in such things and we carry on the traditions with a trip to visit the dearly departed.  Then a family lunch that gets smaller every year and so winds up Memorial Day rememberances.

In the afternoon we kayaked up stream to an lake with no name and then a little farther up towards Long Lake but SAM was getting tired so we turned around.  On the way back I took the short detour to Mud Lake which is behind the old Turkey Farm.