Comments:
Let's see... left for the Navy shortly after graduation, spent 3 years in San Diego serving as a Hospital Corpsman (mostly at Balboa Naval Hospital and with the jarheads at Camp Pendleton).
After being there 1 year, married Dalene Field (Andrea Thomas' cousin). Spent first 2 years of honeymoon in San Diego (being 1500 miles from both parents is a *great* way to start a marriage).
After tour of active duty was over, came back to Texas to start school at Texas A&M - graduated in 87, then got Masters in MIS in 94. Went to work for A&M in 87 and have moved around in different departments on campus.
In 2013 we had a major "life change" - I retired from Texas A&M and THOUGHT I would get another IT job with some other company. Instead, that is when Dalene & I became beekeepers. TAMU offered to let me come back and work part-time, which I did until covid caused cut-backs forcing me into full retirement in August of 2020. I was not unhappy about that at all. Being able to work part-time (and then into full retirement) allowed us to build up beekeeping from just a hobby into a full-blown retirement level type business. Today we run between 60-80 colonies.
Other things:
* We homeschooled our kids and continue to be VERY active in those circles, despite the fact that our youngest is now married and homeschooling her own kids.
* I love to hunt and fish, but am much less fanatical about doing it than I once was. #1 on my "bucket list" is still to go on a combo moose/brown bear hunt in Alaska. I do make occasional trips to the Texas coast to go fishing in the bays as well as a yearly "pilgrimage" to the Kenai River in Alaska during the sockeye salmon run in July.
* Our youngest daughter works for American Airlines at the airport in College Station - which gives Dalene & I the opportunity to fly very, VERY cheaply. As a result, we have travelled a LOT in the past few years (see my trip to Alaska). As a retired person, I highly recommend having one of your kids work for a major airline! LOL
My daddy died back in 2008 after a long battle with lung cancer. We convinced my mom to move closer to one of us kids, so she now lives in Prosper (my brother lives in Celina). Which means, I really don't have much reason to get back to Greenville anymore.
