I needed a personal simple yardstick of what partial retirement was. After some thought years ago. Not having to work to put food on the table as a necessity for us was enough to call it partial retirement. I was not rich by the way.

Can happen at any age I suppose. You still work at things but the absolute necessity to do so is not there. Today is Sunday for example but I will leave and finish a little task so I can start removing some of the tools on Monday.

I usually put in about eight hours a day at some point. Yet the list of things that either need done or I want to do does not seem to shrink much.

Yesterday the wife sent a guy down to the site who wanted euro bumper parts for his 1986 gas Mercedes. I figured since he was Austrian he was perhaps a professor at the university in the nearby town. I leave two mercedes part cars outsife an old ex service station we have. Word gets around so occasionally someone asks who owns the cars and is directed to me.

I gave him the peach part sites information and we may see him here. I told him that there were no parts cars like his around with good rust free euro bumpers regionally in my opinion. So I hope he tries the parts wanted section as I thought there where a lot of his model in American scrap yards.

Seemed like a nice guy just retiring and wanting to do some things on his car. I like most always try to be helpful.

I did also mention that chrome on a car in the sunbelt can be faded. This does not happen in more northern lattitudes. Or is minor in comparison with cars left outside all the time.