This is a rerun..

i am cheating...  I was sitting waiting for a friend to finish talking to another friend..  when I heard her friend say something that I had heard my grndson say about 5 years ago..   He said.. well, I can't do that.. because it is my day off..  Another one.. who thinks there is a day off from life...   so I thought I would run this one again..  both of these young people are in their low 30's and 25. 

AUGUST 16, 2021

Taking a day off from life…

Taking a day off from life….

Those of us who jumped in to 

the retirement life, know that 

we are busier than we were 

before when we worked.  And 

some of 

us,has wondered,  how 

did we ever get everything 

done that we needed to get 

done, when we were working 

and still doing things at 

home.   The answer is… you 

did a band aid job of the what 

the home stuff was. 

You did the heavy duty jobs on 

weekends and vacation time. 

That is why a lot of people 

didn’t  do much vacationing in 

the older days.. There were 

quick trips to grandparents 

home, if they did not live in 

the same state.  That was a car 

trip, with food and snacks and 

drinks in a cooler.  And when 

you left grandparents house… 

you had your cooler filled by 

grandma… fried chicken, 

maybe some salad.. fried 

potatoes and cookies freshly 

made… for your trip 

home.  These were usually 

once a year or every other 

year. 

Depending on how far away it 

was…  And if they lived close 

by, then there were project 

days on the weekend, to help 

out grandparents at their 

home.

Once you retire, after you 

catch on, that all projects don’t 

have to be done in 2 days or 

6… you break up the different 

parts of 

the project and you can slow it 

down. Even go to lunch with 

friends.. as the project will still 

be there tomorrow 

morning..  That is the good 

part of retirement. The hard 

part is saying NO, no thank 

you, I really don’t have 

time for that.. when some one 

tried to sign you up for 

volunteering for THEIR 

favorite charity or what ever…

But one of the things that 

makes me laugh at the newer 

generation… is they seem to 

think their two days off are 

THEIR DAYS OFF…  my 

guessing is from life as well as 

the job.. Because they will tell 

you, they don’t have time to fix 

this or that.. or get a project 

done on those two day off.. 

BECAUSE IT IS “MY” DAY 

OFF…  And no way, are they 

doing even an hour or two 

after work… just too tired….

So those of you over the age of 

70…. Did you do little to 

nothing on your weekends or 

after work?  What about 

YOUR parents..  I know my 

dad would work on some of

his projects 

for a couple hours .. some 

times after he ate dinner… He 

figured an hour here or there, 

was less to do on the 

weekend.. 

And if we were really lucky, 

and he had a couple hours free 

on Sunday… we got to go to 

the beach in the summer time.

After my dad retired, he still

was working, because they had 

a horse farm.. So the summers 

were full of haying..  Prepping 

for getting the grass tall 

enough to cut… cutting, 

tossing it and if the weather co-

operated, they got it loaded 

and in the barn in those few 

days… There were fences to 

mend… there was the fields to 

plow up…  And there were 

horse shows on the weekend.. 

Some times one day …some 

times the whole weekend.

In the winter it was not as 

busy.  I saw some wood 

carvings down in the 

basement 

in his work shop… when I was 

visiting from the West coast… 

I told him how cool I thought 

they were.. and asked.. how 

come you never did these 

when we were growing up…. 

And he looked at me and 

smiles..  “when did I have 

time?” 

Between work and 

keeping our place together… 

there was never time..

Guess he didn’t believe in Days off from Life…