I hate to be a drag but here I go
again! Below I have set the link to my blog that is just on retirement (you can
access it on the side panel of the blog scrolling down to subjects. First of
all I want to give myself a pat on the back for writing such good stuff! Second a wagging finger saying “even before
you got sick you were not properly editing your writing” since I found errors
throughout. Shame on me.
All that aside, I would remind my
readers that as you get into your retirement do remember to give yourself
mental check-ins on how you are doing with the 6 pieces of the pie. As I wrote
about yesterday I have never been bored but I know that I am an exception to
that phenomenon (I guess). Even when I was a kid if things got a bit stale I would
say to my sister “I want an aaadventure” (yes, I dragged out the “a” in
adventure) and Jeanette and I would then concoct some idiotic plan for an
adventure.
The most momentous one was when
we decided to follow the creek to its source (we already knew where it ended as
we had followed it down to Lake Ontario even though we weren’t’ allowed to
cross the Queen E (Hwy 1). Off we went crossing New Street (I think we went
under it through a culvert if I am remember correctly) and on and on we walked
through fields, the creek going down to a trickle. Then we ended up in a farm
yard with a dog barking like mad. Jeanette had a pathological fear of dogs so
it was time to turn around and go back. The dog got loose and Jeanette was
running like a maniac, it was all I could do to keep up with her! That was one
adventure that stayed between the two of us. Dad would likely have whipped us
if he had known we had gone so far; I suspect we went at least 10 miles since
we were gone for quite a long time.
The other crazy wish of my heart
was to find a dead body. I had that wish for years (well into adulthood),
courtesy of all the murder mysteries I read. I always added the proviso “but I
don’t want to be a suspect”. I wanted, of course, to be Jessica Fletcher before
she had even been invented; finding a body and solving the “case”. Ah the
madness of youth!
Now I got myself a little
distracted on the retirement theme but I will continue tomorrow!
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