OCTOBER 2018 BEACON

My apologies to all for this late Beacon. It’s been done and sitting in my PC for the last 12 days, with the exception of the Photo section. There’s so many great events since the last Beacon and volumes of great images of them all, it takes me longer to do the photo section than it does the rest of the publication some months. Alas, this past 6 weeks has found the Lovely & Gracious JeriLynn and I sorting through 25 years of “stuff” and selecting what to move and what to keep and what to donate and what to send to the curb. Several small pickup truck loads have already gone in various directions. Now we’re packing a U-Haul truck with all the beachy furniture and stuff we’ve been collecting for a long time and preparing to move it to the sunshine state. Adding to my personal time requirement is the closing of our 12-year-old business that has been our financial backbone. It turns out that closing a business can be more consuming than running one. It fell as another casualty of a catastrophic car crash we were in. I can tell you this, it is a somber task, not unlike burying a family member. Fear Not though, your intrepid Publications Director has spent a lifetime inventing jobs when I needed one. With 1 exception I invented every job I had as an adult, (in case you haven’t noticed by now, being a vast storehouse of uncommon knowledge, I just don’t fit standard job descriptions). All I need to do is figure out something we both can do, and then convince someone else it’s in their best interest to pay us to do it, and then demonstrate a value. Simple… Every day for two weeks I’ve been waking up thinking I’ll finish the Beacon before I sleep, having failed 13 consecutive times, I decided to put the autumn photo sections in Beacons over the off season to renew good memories when the snow shovel consumes the day, so here it is sans photos for now.

Blue Skies Following Seas, Ron