“Knock Knock! Who’s there? Tibet! Tibet who? Early Tibet and early to rise!”
Delightful is the first adjective that comes to mind to describe today. It is cool and dry, magical words. The windows and doors are wide open. Sitting here in my room, I can smell the fresh air, the cut grass and the flowers. I can feel the cool breeze from the window. I can see the sun shining through the branches and glinting off the leaves. I can hear the birds singing and the boys down the street yelling to one another as they play. I have reconnected with the world all because it is cool and dry.
I am guilty of procrastination. The morning filled my senses but left my brain blank of thought. I knew I had nothing to talk about today. I made my bed, sat on the deck, took my time reading the papers, checked the TV Guide for the next couple of days, read my e-mail and finally faced the inevitable: it was time to write, to compose, to imagine, to start Coffee.
If I could reorder my life, I wouldn’t change much right now. I have been retired for eleven years and have recently entered the what day is it phase of my retirement. I thought today was Friday until I remembered it wasn’t. I don’t live high on the hog (I’m thinking maybe today can be idiom day), but I do believe in ease and comfort. I have my house cleaned every two weeks though I am forced to do a bit of cleaning in between, as little cleaning as possible. I have my lawn cut and tended to all season. In the winter my yard is plowed and shoveled. My groceries are delivered though I do go to Ring’s, a bit of an extravagance, where I buy gourmet foods, pizzas and even organic dog biscuits for Miss Gracie. When I’m out, I sometimes stop to treat myself to lunch, usually my favorite sandwich with avocado, bacon, cheese and horseradish sauce. I have season tickets to the Cape Playhouse.
How do I keep body and soul together? (still working on idioms here). I don’t go out to eat much, don’t go to movies except on my deck, seldom buy new clothes (“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes”) and use the library for new books.
I haven’t traveled in a couple of years, and the itch is starting, but I need to build more of a nest egg (number 3 if you’re counting). Rome was not built in a day (4) and my trip won’t be either. I’m thinking next year back to Ghana. My friends too are going back, and we are working on going back together. We lived side by side in Bolga and traveled together often. It’s time we did it again!
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August 27, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Quite the opposite weather here today, pretty chilly, heavy showers and autumn has now arrived. We didn’t get any thunder though as they had predicted. I now have one radiator working again.
I’ve decided not to travel until I don’t have any dogs so god knows if I’ll ever travel again 🙂 I know that if I will my first trip will be to England and most likely London since I’ve never been there but always wanted to go there.
Like You I don’t buy a lot of things, like clothes for myself but I have had a tendency to buy too many cameras lately 🙂 🙂 but I think it is ok to spoil one self with something 🙂
have a great day!
Christer.
August 27, 2015 at 7:12 pm
Christer,
I think I am a long way from needing a radiator. It was cooler today but only cooler than really hot.
Having dogs and traveling is a problem. I told Lee, whose mother watched the last time I went to Ghana, to tell her I may need her next year. By then she should be a US citizen and living in America full time. I think London is a great first pick.
I agree. If we don’t spoil ourselves, who will?
Have a great evening!!
August 27, 2015 at 6:01 pm
Small cattle/animals also produce dung.
(German idiom which describes your kind of saving for another Ghana trip.)
August 27, 2015 at 7:12 pm
Birgit,
I don’t think it is one I’ll use despite how descriptive it is!
August 27, 2015 at 9:11 pm
Good to be back! My internet crashed for a week+. Pixies, I think. Un-plug, re-plug, 3 hours on the phone with Time-Warner; repeat…
I’m also in “what day of the week” phase of retirement. I go by the day on top of my morning paper, but that was in jeopardy. Rates for the local rag (Albany “Times Union”) went up again to $92 (+tip) for 10 weeks! I called in a huff and told them to cancel. The guy says “Well… can you do $60?”. Well… OK. Never hurts to ask! They are desperate for subscribers, like most paper media.
Despite on-line alternatives, I like the feel of paper in my hands in the morning. I think I’m now “one of those old people”.
August 27, 2015 at 10:44 pm
Welcome back, Jay
I am definitely one of those old people. Two papers start my every morning, and a cup of coffee goes with each cup. I have tried to read the news on-line, but I get no satisfaction from old the tablet. I want the actual pages in papers
I think I’d get hives if my internet crashed!!
August 28, 2015 at 9:33 am
Hi Kat,
Yesterday was perfect. I sent the dogs off to play school and I spent the day organizing some of the chaos that has accumulated around me. It looks better but only by comparison with what was. Anybody coming into the house for the first time would still call it a disaster. 🙂 But it’s an organized disaster.
I only get the local town paper on weekdays. It’s a family tradition that I am reluctant to stop even though I only read a few things in it. My father worked for the paper when I was small. We three kids would take turns delivering it to the subscribers on our very short street. They gave us candy as “payment”. We thought it was a good deal. 🙂
The big papers I read online though most of them have crappy e-versions that hinder the experience. The Washington Post has a good e-paper set-up. The NYTimes and Boston Globe not so much. IMO they shouldn’t be set up to resemble the paper version. It’s clunky and unnecessary in a digital format.
My nest egg was massively scrambled the last couple of years. It’s a shell of its former self and my ability to grow it is equally stunted. In Birgit’s homily, my small animal would be one elderly gerbil on Senokot. 😀
Enjoy the day.
August 28, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Hi Caryn,
My cleaning couple did a great job so all I have left today is the laundry. I have brought it down to this floor and have only one more to go. I’ll work up the energy in a bit.
I have never warmed to the digital version of the Globe. I take a lot of time to read it and do the crossword puzzle every day. The local news I get from the Cape Times as I get the rest from the Globe. I love reading the papers to start my morning.
I spent just about all my money on the house and three trips, Morocco and two to Ghana. I had saved a huge chuck which disappeared as I paid cash for everything which was done. I was sorry to see the money disappear, but afterwards, I was glad I’d made the decision to spend it on the house. I am now in a save till it hurts mode so I can go back to Ghana one more time.