{"id":36670,"date":"2025-07-22T06:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36670"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:25:49","slug":"the-busy-life-of-a-not-too-retiring-man-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36670","title":{"rendered":"The busy life of a not too retiring man, Pt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36663\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36679\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I go on to point 4 (the listing order was arbitrary) I will just mention that while I am attending to 4 a painting crew will head to my house to paint my woodwork. I just replied to a text explaining what the work crew should expect when they arrive at my house in an hour should I be gone&#8230;.I probably won&#8217;t be. <\/p>\n<p>I am working with paints myself. I&#8217;m painting a mural in a grandson&#8217;s bedroom. It is replacing this mural which I painted for his older brother who shared this wall after the younger brother was out of his cradle. You can see it is being painted over by their mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54671524029_8fe61da92c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I projected my mother&#8217;s illustration on the wall about the time she was placed in a memory care facility. She painted it for me in a never completed joint project to publish our work as a children&#8217;s book to be titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/MomsArtPage\/harrysnap.htm\"><strong>Harry&#8217;s Nap.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The younger son once cradled is now getting his driver&#8217;s permit. It was high time as the room is now solely for his occupancy to redecorate it in a more age appropriate way and an interest appropriate way. He has had a theatrical bent since this, his second, foray into theater. He&#8217;s the scarecrow:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54671286016_006ccbb10c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12301\">a touching memory of my Mother&#8217;s passing <\/a>which was connected to this production.<\/p>\n<p>The theater now consumes his thoughts and I suggested painting a bunch of theater posters on his newly painted walls. He is out of town at a Presbyterian week with his brother, mother and grandmother. We settled on a single poster of a movie he says he&#8217;s watched 20 times. I&#8217;m making progress:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54671524904_342cc66b1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile his older brother who is taken with movie production has worked for several months to co-present a class at this church gathering about the theology of the hideously violent series Breaking Bad. (I stopped watching it after the first or second episode) He&#8217;s watched it at least three times and I think Claudia watched it twice as they developed the curriculum for their five-day class. Fifteen people signed up and they are on their second class today. My grandson is preparing a surprise for them.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia sent me a picture of him preparing bags of meth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54671287826_7356604022.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry. He&#8217;s giving the Presbyterians rock candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post Before I go on to point 4 (the listing order was arbitrary) I will just mention that while I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36670"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36683,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions\/36683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}