I. Traded a snowblower for a boat.
Yeah, this thing is 56 years old. Classic 69 modeling. Classic teal green (yuck!). I'm going from a 10 ft aluminum boat and a 6HP outboard to this. I'm taking a huge step, and it's going to be a huge learning curve. So no room for pride and know-it-all-already-ness. I'm going to need ample and copious amounts of good advice.
So why do it? WHY such a large boat? Why is important.
I will be turning 62 this year. And one thing I'm having trouble getting my brain around if this fact that I'm getting old, and I won't be here forever. My time is growing short. Time, for all of us is of limited quantity. I still feel like the 30 or 40 y.o. version of me. I still think like the 30 or 40 y.o. version of me. I want to do great things. I've got huge dreams and huge plans. (Gee, if I could just win the lottery!) The fact is, that time and money limit our choices and bring some reality into our dreams.
My "WORD" for this year, 2025, is -=Realignment=- 2025 is my year to realign myself with goals and dreams that are doable and have a point and purpose. So why a 20 ft boat that's way out of my league?
When I was a youth, a man from our church took us out on his boat. Mr Greenway took a few of us fishing. I can still remember that, if not the boat or what lake we fished. In my youth, dad and I got to go out with some men from a church in Louisiana and fished the Gulf of Mexico. They pulled up close to oil derricks and we hauled in some huge 'Big Red's'. When I was in the service, stationed at Patrick AFB, FL. Fellow AFTAC'er Carl Swenson took me out on his 18'ft open deck boat and we caught some 'dolphin' (fish so named for the porpuse like face they have) All these events are still fresh in my memories.
As I grow older, I find that I just want to build memories like that with my friends and my family, and my grandkids. So a boat. A boat is a tool. It's a tool I hope to employ and enjoy as I build relationship and create memories with people I love and want to be with.
