I'm typing and I should be outdoors- what a geek

It's July 4th. Wait, I'm saying that wrong. It's 4th of July. I'm thinking of going down to Campbell for Soup on Sunday. The forecast calls for a very hot day though. I'm typing in a cool dark room. My plane is out and ready. It's out because I never did put it away, from it's last flight. It's last flight was three days ago when I went over to the cropduster's place in Delaware. I refueled at Ridgely. I ran into a guy there who has a private strip just a few miles north of me. We had never met. But we had a lot in common. Both retired. Both with grass strips on Md's mid shore. Both with CherOHkeys. Both with fences and horses. Both needing fuel at Ridgely. We invited each other to "fly in sometime". When I say I have an airstrip and fences and horses it makes me sound rich. I am rich in many many ways. And damn thankful too. But I have debt, not money. So one reason I may not go to Campbell today is simply that I don't want to spend the fuel money I don't have. Especially if it will be a little too hot to enjoy. I've been soul searching about giving up my 3rd class medical and going light sport. As you see from a previous post. One thing that makes it all less painful, is that I simply don't have enough money to enjoy flying an airplane all over the place. I'd love to have a little twin like a Comanche or a 310 and fly it once a week to places like Connecticut, Ashville, Knoxville, Campbell, Caldwell, Lakeland, Oshkosh, Hagerstown. Or a retractable single. But even if I could continue to get 3rd class medicals, I wouldn't be able to afford to do that kind of flying. It's too bad I can't fly the Cherokee like a light sport. It's a simple little airplane that keeps me out of trouble. And a few years back I spent $11,000 on upgrading the radios, and that was just for the basics. Whoever would buy it from me ain't gonna give me jack squat for that 11K upgrade. That's why I want to sell 009 to my nephew. At least he'll get a good deal on a good airplane. When I was at ESN the other day they were doing Yak formation training and war bird fly in stuff. A very big day. A very big deal. T 28's, T-6's, Yaks, etc. It was real hot on the ramp. The guys who were there were all in flight suits and they were working hard. Ramping up those planes. Too much work for me. It was fun to watch. The big radials smoking and loping and belching. The loud fast fly-bys. It's great. But even if I had the hundreds of thousands it takes to play in that game, I wouldn't do it. I'm too lazy. I'll just watch like I did last Saturday. Then go get in my little PA-28 (or Champ?) and go home. I think my bigger point here is that you can't have everything. And when you reach 60 like I have, you don't even want everything. Maybe it's cognitive dissidence (see earlier post) but I think when I go light sport, I won't miss a thing. Of course it's natural to want what you can't have. 4th of July.......OK here's what I'm gonna do: Leave the plane out and ready...... paint a cabinet and a fence, mow something, go swimming, and take the wife out to dinner . PS..... readers.....party here this Saturday..... and Aug 14th fly in. GAI ::::+::::