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Dexter Sinister

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Damn right I still got it. It was a hot time in the ol' town tonight. And last night. And the night before. Parties all over the place, live bands by the lake (Tom Cochrane and Colin James, no less), finally a complete football game by the Riders (they've been playing only 45 minutes a game lately, then rolling over and playing dead), and the most spectacular fireworks display I've ever seen. Must have been 30,000 people in the park for it, it was shoulder to shoulder all around the lake from the shoreline to 50 meters back, and a happy, hand-clapping, foot-stomping, yelling and hooting crowd it was. It was really cool to be part of it.
 

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Well dexter, the harvest is over, I have been puttin the garden to bed. :cry: I picked the last of my tomatoes on the weekend, but the zuccinni still rambles on :p Tonight me and hammy harvested the apple tree, we did everything proper like, got the ladder out, but we soon tired of picking and passing, so I decided shaking the tree would be much faster :p bulleye! hammy now knows how newton felt :p Da sunflowers are now big wheels of yummy delight for a feathered friends. Contented slumber is in da air, So dexter how was your harvest?? :wink:
 

Dexter Sinister

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Still working on the harvest; lot of potatoes and carrots still in the ground, but we like to leave 'em there as long as possible. Everything else is pretty much cleared off tho'. Had a good year for peas and beans, but the onions never got bigger than a quarter.

Been too busy around the house to do much in the garden. I received a small inheritance recently and we've been using it to refit the house, more or less all at once. New windows, new furnace, new flooring (spent most of this week preparing for that: ripping up the old stuff, nailing down a new subfloor) new paint and wallpaper everywhere, major refit of two bathrooms, and I'm 2/3 of the way through building a wall to wall floor to ceiling bookcase in my office. Since I retired I've been busier than I've ever been in my life. And I haven't even started on the list of things to do I made in the last few months before I retired.

That's also the reason I haven't been around here much lately. The days are spent in heavy labour, and by the time evening rolls around, my idea of something to do is to have a wee dram of some fine old single malt (The Macallan, preferably) and drop into bed. Sometimes I even forego the wee dram, I'm so tired.
 

Twila

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So is that what happens to retirement? You get busy busy busy?

I'm thinking it might be wise to just keep working then.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Well, it's what's happened to me; can't speak for anyone else. I'm thinking of going back to work to get some rest. This subfloor activity isn't much fun. Wrestling with great heavy 4x8 foot sheets of some sort of particle board isn't my idea of something to do. Power lifting wasn't in the job description.

I suppose I should be grateful that at my age I can still do that kind of work without hurting myself. But I'm not, really. It's just that my cheap Scots soul refuses to pay somebody to do things I can do just as well myself. Though I've been told by a friend in Rotterdam that the Dutch make the Scots look like profligate wastrels... :wink:
 

Twila

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It's just that my cheap Scots soul refuses to pay somebody to do things I can do just as well myself.

I hear ya! But don't blame a cheap scottish soul. You just don't suffer from Afluenza. The dreaded disease where by you're willing to work double time at the office (away from home) inorder to be able pay somebody else to do the job you could have done yourself but believed yourself to be to lazy.

It's a dreaded condition from what I hear. It causes all kinds of anxieties. Such as "can I really keep up with the jones" Which has been known to tear families apart.

My father retired about 4-5yrs ago. So did my mom. They decided to go back to work part time after realizing that retirement didn't suit them. Seems they weren't meant to sit around on their keisters twiddling their thumbs!