With retirement, my ricochet life ended and the designer life began. It has lasted more than 20 years and remains in full bloom. It has been filled with romance, travel, daily pleasures, and accomplishments that it would take a book as long as this one to leave its history to our children. If there is to be a second book, it will be printed when we are living in the Villas on Buffalo Hill, where we are scheduled to move in late 2018.