Solid Rock Minnesota

Retirement Day has happened for my Best Half! What does the future hold? Who knows, but part of it will be spent growing older together. This is a song I wrote for all of us who have a Best Half or Best Friend that we will grow old with. Time Will Be Our Friend  Words and music by Susan McAuliffe Do you think of me sometimes At the setting of the sun? I know I think of you In everything I do  Time keeps moving on Will you love me  When I grow old Will you still hold my hand? Will you walk with me into the sunset And look back on the years gone by? Well I know we move a little slower And we hold each other up All  the years that pass All the memories filled with love. As I look into your eyes And I see the age in your hair Ill keep loving you in everything I do And time will be our friend --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

What do you do when you have farm animals needing attention and you want to travel in the winter? You share joint custody of course.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

The Rooster Gene: the inherited ability to consistently wake up at the crack of dawn without setting any alarm and be ready to greet the day cheerfully. Just one of the genetics we have inherited through the generations. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

How can you tell if it is Fall in Minnesota? Just check for the plaid.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Over a decade ago, alone on a lake in the BWCA, I met with misfortune that I am still whining about and paying the price for at times today. But I think I have solved the problem and will be back out there next Summer to portage my canoe to that little pond full of fish. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Minnesotans are known for their lingering good-byes and lengthly conversations in the driveway before heading out. There is only one thing that compares in length to a MInnesota good-bye. And that is the "Ope, Sorry". Come on along to Fleet Farm and see what I'm talking about. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

One of our last Monday Morning Music Sessions before 1/2 the grandkids moved to El Paso, Texas. Nothing more fun than doing music with the grandkids! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

The Maiden Voyage of Big Eddie and the C.O.W. Take a trip with us to the North Country. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

After many changes and discussions, we are hoping we have our stuff together as retirement nears in the next 2 months. Here's to taking the roads less traveled and taking the time to enjoy them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

The nest is officially empty for the first time in about 10 years. Our house is pretty silent. How will I survive the deafening silence during the day at the house? With my new friend Ziggy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Those four-legged furry family members manage to work their way into our hearts. For 11 years. we have had not only a furry family member, but one who has given her life to service, being the ears for her deaf best friend. This by far is one of the hardest stories I have shared... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Traveling cross country 3400 miles makes me think of the old Waylon Jennings song "America" "America" Some have said, down through history If you last it's a mystery But I guess they don't know, what they're talking about From the mountains down to the sea You've become such a habit with me America, America Well, I come from, down around Tennessee But the people in California Are nice to me, America It don't matter where I may roam Tell you people that it's home sweet home America, America And my brothers are all black and white Yellow too and the red man is right To expect a little from you Promise and then follow through, America All the men who fell on the plains And lived through hardship and pain America, America And the men who could not fight In a war that didn't seem right You let them come home, America And my brothers are all black and white Yellow too and the red man is right To expect a little from you Promise and then follow through, America Well, I come from, down around Tennessee But the people in California Are nice to me, America It don't matter where I may roam Tell you people that it's home sweet home America, America America, America It's home sweet home, America America, America... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

The continuing saga of our RV experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Someone once said that if you need to ask how many miles to the gallon an RV gets, you can't afford it. They were right! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message