This is an autobiography. My story of eighty years from 1935 to 2015. My life started out as normal for a youth born in Southern California to parents of modest means but then wandered in many directions. Ancestry, family, youth, adulthood, education, marriage, daughter, home. Then from engineering to art, moving to Aspen, Colorado with family, later to Lake Forest, Illinois, back to Loveland, Colorado, onto a boat, and finally, but probably another move before the last one, to Vero Beach, Florida. A sculptor for thirty years, doing several house renovations, part of a design team of a unique pinball game and later a personal computer, catering and bed and breakfast operation. A fisherman, hunter, outdoors man., auto mechanic and handyman. My wife, like wise, made many adjustments. A registered nurse, in real estate sales, store owner, publisher of a coloring book, was the better half of the catering and bed and breakfast operation, excellent cook and home maker. We are still a happy married couple. As you may expect some thoughts and opinions are included. It has been a good and interesting life. I am recording it primarily for family and friends but hope others may find it of interest. It is my conviction that no other generation has had a better time to be alive than mine. That it made it possible for me to live it as I have and that it’s story may have some value for you.