Sure and Begorah, BJ and Kent State retiree Bob Springer will never lose his sense of Irish humor.

He posted a photo of an Arizona cactus taken during his current trip to probably Bob’s favorite state, judging by the number of times he goes there, with this Irish whisky-flavored post:

"Don't shoot," says the cactus whose head already looks a little blown apart. In the desert west of Wickenburg, Ariz., this afternoon.

Bob and wife Barbara Hipsman Springer, who retired from Kent State a year ahead of Bob’s August 2014 bailout, will be spending a month in Wickenburg, named after the Austrian prospector who extracted $30 million worth of gold from a nearby mine. It’s on the Hassayampa River.

To get to Wickenburg, Bob and Barb had to spring past Bentonville, Oklahoma, pretty much owned by the Walton family of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club fame, and visited Kato and Dustin in Fayetteville.

And then there’s the Enchanted State of New Mexico, where I enjoyed Navajo hospitality and Santa Fe art not long after my 1996 retirement from Ol' Blue.

The good folks of Wickenburg, with the help of the cavalry, had to slaughter thousands of Yavapei – the Battle of Salt River being the main killing ground -- and put the survivors on what Columbus ignorantly called “Indian” reservations to steal the land and give it to the settlers.

Chicago native Bob and Barb live in Kent. The Irish humor lives deep inside Bob.