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We’ve only gone 300 yards and we need a drink at Eppley Airfield already! We’ll here’s to you Lucy! And here’s to a great vacation, exploring, fun, love and happiness.l over the next 7 days. Today is Sunday day 1 and we’re waiting to get on our Southwest flight to Orlando, Florida.

I was a little nervous but once I got to cruising altitude I felt a lot better.

After a bit of turbulence and circling the Orlando airport because of a storm, we stumbled onto finding our luggage. Big airport. We had to search a bit until we found the luggage.

Lots of Photos

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• My dogs for a ride! They love it and so do I. We usually get ice cream together.
• Cowboys get no respect these days. It all about fashion, margarita’s and wiggling your toes in the sand, instead of hard work, cattle, loneliness and grit!
• I worked hard and passed my Peer Support Training class last month.
• Lots of deer where my son and his wife went to take maternity photos a couple weeks ago. I grabbed a quick picture of a doe nearby.
• God love my Russian Tortoise, Shelly. She’s been kicking butt for a couple years. She got a new habitat in her horse tank. She loves it!

A couple exciting things for me (Charlie) coming up. Next week I have my final dental appointment for my 6 month journey to implants, including a bone graft in my jaw, 2 implants in my lower jaw and new hardware all the way around. Pretty much a whole mouth reconstruction! This happens Tuesday. July 15th 2025 at 2pm! (pictures coming soon)

Also on Tuesday, July the 15th 2025 is the beginning of a new journey as a singer at The School of Rock! Singing lessons start that night and I may also revisit drums. The goal is to take lessons, improve to the point where I can join a School of Rock band and practice every week until the band is good enough to perform in concert at a venue in Omaha! (pictures and more news coming next week)

All this following about a 10 year stint with severe depression and anxiety along with other mental health conditions. Recently I went through an electric shock therapy session followed by 4 weeks of of outpatient mental health therapy followed by 60 hours of mental health peer support training. Throughout my life I have wrestled with severe mental health challenges but maybe not so difficult as these last 10 years. A mental health challenge is more than shaking it off or splashing cold water on your face. It can cut deep and it affects family, friends, businesses and co-workers, so if you know someone struggling give them a hand, be supportive and help them get the assistance they need. Anyway – back to the present. I’m feeling pretty good. I’m still having a few symptoms but I have some tools I’m using to help me stay in the light!

• Scheduled September 5th 2024
• Surgery predicted to last 2.5 hours
• Time off work approximately 6 weeks for recovery.
• Patient Charlie Johnson
• Recovery details to be posted on charlie3rd.com
• Wish me luck!!!

Here to get my brakes fixed today. Monte at Grease saved me some money. I have know the owners Monte and Doug for a long time so I know I can trust them. Call or come in and ask for Monte for your next oil change or automobile service. Really great guys!

This is a tattoo of the Hocus Pocus movie. One of my favorites. What would you do to it to change it for the better and still be in line with the original Hocus Pocus movie?