By CHRISTIAN D ORR

Sports Editor

Miles Miller has lived a good 63 years, according to him -- especially the last 24 years -- but he is also looking forward to his future years with a big smile on his face.

Miles has worked for the Abilene postal office for those last 24 years, 24 years of “good times” but those “good times” are about to be replaced by more “good times” in his retirement years.

Miller will retire from his current position as the main greeter at the Abilene post office and begin his retirement years which he is hoping will present him with more “good times.”

“It is a good job,” Miller said of his position with the post office. “Good people. Good town.”

There was not one thing that led Miller to seek retirement. He is just retiring because the time, in his life, is right.

“I’m 63 years old,” Miller said.

Miller said the thing that retirement will present him, that working at the post office did not, is time to travel.

“We are headed for Durango, Colo. the 21st and 22nd of August and then we are headed for Sturgis, S.D., Labor Day weekend,” Miller said.

“Durango is FastDraw. They have a FastDraw contest and Sturgis is a Mustang rally.”

The other thing retirement will present Miller is time to work on his “honey-do” list.

Miller said that is going to be “playing” during his retirement.

“I’ve got some toys,” Miller said. “I’ve got a motorcycle, and a fast draw. I’ve got a hot rod Mustang. I’ve got a honey-do list about that long (Miller was holding his hand about four feet off the ground).”

His “honey-do” list is the basic one that most people face, regardless of age.

“Working on the house, working on the yard,” Miller said.

But he is going to miss his job and he will miss everything except the Christmas season.

“Working with the people and the public more than anything,” Miller said of things he will miss. “I have got regular customers that come in here. The people, more than anything.”

But he will not miss working during the Christmas season.

“I’m not going to miss it at all,” Miller said.

“It is just the number of customers, basically,” Miller said of the Christmas season. “You have got more packages that people mail overseas to military loved ones and then grandma and grandpa mail stuff to the grandkids. That is probably the biggest two reasons with the mail at Christmas time.”

But basically it all comes down to one statement.

“I’m ready to retire,” Miller said.