LeoInTampa: Once Drafted as an Officer but Still a Gentleman

I wish there were a woman who could manage my 6BR 6bath home the way a Home Economics old-school high school student would have been trained. As long as I am wishing, might as well reach for the stars and ask the Cosmos to send me a technologically and digitally adept partner, as well. Hah!
Not necessarily looking to date, except to find a live-in platonic home manager and housekeeper or just a roomie who paid her own way.
I am building out a live-in stealth camper for my golden years. Hoping to drive to Pacific Northwest. Bucket List.
Sleeping in it occasionally, for practice.
I'd love to do all this myself, but I am not yet retired.
I have lived in the same old home for 35 years now. In a neighborhood in Tampa to die for, near Bayshore Beautiful Linear Park and Trail.
It takes two hours per day of housekeeper and gardening attention to keep the old place in clean condition. Just cleaning the windows, screens, shutters, blinds and glass takes about 60 labor hours and must be done at least twice per year.
Friends say I am: Very self assured, too trusting, vulnerable, quirky, direct, positive, judgemental, intelligent yet NOT socially clever, outspoken, opinionated, motivated, active, adventurous, lacking in 'social I.Q.' issues, not well-read, successful, inquisitive, generous, impulsive, sometimes too intense and/or "out there". I do enjoy discussing and revealing my emotions. I wear eyeglasses more than 90% of the time. The facial hair comes and goes, my bald spot does not. Hah! I was married 29 years to a wonderful woman who home-birthed my children and about whom I feel nothing but admiration. I owed/gave her a quarter million bucks (she deserved more for putting up with me for 30-some years, so I got a BARGAIN, I feel) when we divorced and now have a few room mates to help me make the mortgage payments on my old wood-frame craftsman six-bathroom ramshackle home in which some of my children were home-birthed and where I have lived some 35 years now.
Under the new Plenty of Fish (POF) guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial or any use of the above my written consent is needed at all times! (Anyone reading this can copy this text and paste it on their Plenty of Fish (POF) Wall. This will place them under protection of copyright laws. By the present communiqué, I notify LetsHangOut that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate, or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents.
The aforementioned prohibited actions also apply to employees, students, agents and/or any staff under Let's Hang Out's are direction or control. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of my privacy is punished by law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute). All members are recommended to publish a notice like this, or if you prefer, you may copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be tacitly allowing the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile status updates

She is fairly simple in cosmetology and attire, as her truest pulchritude comes from within.
Her nails are short.
Her feet could be big but her carbon footprint is small.
She lives responsibly and with a healthy lifestyle for herself and the earth.
She hopefully shuns disposable shopping bags and often rides a bike, paddles a canoe and kayak.
She weighs less than me, but could still likely kick my a** when I deserved it.
She believes global warming is caused by man and that man evolved from lower life forms.
She feels equal to and tolerant of others, not feeling her own ethnicity superior.

I've never had a 'straight' job, except for when I was drafted, during the Vietnam War Era, and sent overseas as a Combat Engineer Platoon Leader, to (defend Democracy, yeah right!) do bad things. So much for 'straight jobs', huh? I ain't afraid of much, except our (mostly Federal) government.

I made something out of wood for my Mom when I was twelve. I got so much positive reinforcement, I kept making things, now 50-some years later, I still do the same thing, but now as a semi-retired world-class furniture maker and woodworker.

joni mitchel fred eaglesmith firelit drum circles architectural artifacts adapted into antique furnishings edible landscaping blues harp djembe wmnf radio 88 1/2fm tampa paris and belize parenting antiques npr radio macintosh computers designing furniture organic gardening hiking bicycling kayaking canoeing paddling treasure from trash sharpening edge tools learning something new steaming veggies yoga herbal bathing calligraphy photography alternative medicine community radio marksmanship home improvements energy self sufficiency allicante and mallorca partnered yoga amsterdam and berlin meditation bathing outside mortgage modification off road cycling alternative news junkie herb growing nature the earth travel boating ebaying learning to dance harmonica guitar survivalism kissing while we cook accoustic guitar jams self defense democracynow helping others