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Category: Serendipity | Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:17 pm

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Lesson #1: I have retired, he has changed jobs. Each morning he makes a list of tasks for the day and usually accomplishes all of them. Meanwhile, I no longer dust (he's an engineer and dusts very, very thoroughly); once or twice a week he provides a sub sandwich for lunch or takes me out to the new Italian restaurant in town; and he is remodeling a bathroom. Meanwhile I doodle around in the garden, commune with the hens, and bake.
Lesson #2: We should have invested in the local hardware store's stock. There are at least two, and usually more, trips to the hardware store each week.
Lesson #3: Going to the hardware store also involves stopping by at least two more stores, and coming home with jelly beans, peanuts, and a handy gadget for the kitchen that he can't imagine I have lived without for so long. I am still trying to figure out what the last two gadgets are, but one (I think) is to pull skin off fish. I don't fish!
Lesson #4:"I'm going out to the workshop for a few minutes" results in all sorts of nice things--candle holders, canes, cutting boards, and a lot of shavings for the ladies' nest boxes. He is examining plans for a mantle clock. Fortunately we have a mantle, or he'd build one.
Lesson #5: For forty-some years I have been setting the dining room table for dinner. That is no longer my job. However, I like my napkin on the left, he puts it on the right. We will work this out . . . .
Lesson #6: And this is the best of all--having him home all the time (except for those trips to the hardware store) is pure joy! He is funny, considerate, and the cat is in seventh heaven with an available lap at almost any time of the day. I no longer worry about him driving home in bad weather and we no longer spend all weekend trying to catch up on chores and projects. We have all the time in the world, together!


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Cayuga Morning wrote on Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:25 pm:

Grest blog, MG!

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Frank wrote on Sat Mar 09, 2013 9:37 pm:

You are one lucky lady MG!

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Donna S wrote on Sat Mar 09, 2013 9:39 pm:

Your making retirement sound better all the time.

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eileen wrote on Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:03 pm:

After his retirement Ian decided that I really don't need to cook any more and now does 90% of the meals we eat. The only thing is that I don't think anyone told him that every pot, pan, bowl and dish does NOT have to be used whilst creating his marvelous cuilinary creations!!
He has also untertaken to do the hoovering and dusting upstairs for me which is rather nice. Pity he only feels the urge to do this though once a week.
I now trying to convince him that he desperately wants to wallpaper and paint the living room but it's a slow process. Still I have the rest of our lives to get the rough edges smoothed out.

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Sjoerd wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:26 am:

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dearie-dear...What a transition. I had to chuckle at your and Eileen's postings.

But isn't it so nice to spend more time together?

Good luck ladies...on your training programs. ;-)

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cherylad wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 2:20 pm:

Sounds like "retirement" is working out great for you both. Maybe you should start fishing together too? LOL

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glendann wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:18 pm:

I wish Johnny and I had been able to retired together.I'm sure Heaven Is a much better retirement home for him.

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mangoman52 wrote on Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:49 pm:

Glad to see you have great humor after all these years. My wife and I have been married for 42 years and she would probably write the same things. Thanks for sharing.

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