What did you do on the first day of retirement?

[cat fever]

Takes awhile to get used to!

I promise I'll adapt. "Resistance is futile."

Moss you are making me hungry.

 

[Thall303]

You can always take a break and admire your view!

 

[ultrarunner]

My grandparents lived in an old house. Well built and fairly roomy but it was Old back in the early ‘60’s.

The bathroom was added after the original house was built so you had to go out on a screened in porch to get to it. Had gas heat and plenty of hot water.

I can still remember the smell of breakfast cooking waking me up from restful sleep in a feather bed with feather pillows.

I don’t ever recall my grandparents talking about stressful work.
TBS

The kitchen was always nice and warm... Grandma liked to use the wood side of her Wedgwood stove and she baked her own bread and was well known for her apple pies and strudel....

I took a picture of her once in front of the stove and she was a little annoyed... then I said I just want to have it for when I'm back home... she laughed... it still makes mom get teary eyed.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I am retired now, but I think in the short amount of time between when I got cancer and when I retired, I was more busy then when I worked.

I am a workaholic by nature, so I am always busy. It is hard now with the fatique of cancer because my mind is on "go", but I just cannot get going, or if I do, I have to stop after only an hour or two. I am probably whining so I will stop, but it is hard when you can think of tons of things to do and just can't do it.

Guilt plays into it as well as I know God holds us accountable not only for what we have spent our money on, but also our time. It does not matter if we are retired or not; we all have 24 hours in a day...what is it spent doing?? That is the real question. I try to spend time helping others who have not been as fortunate as me in life. Sure, they might have made some mistakes and I might have avoided some of those vices, I attribute it to God just being gracious in my life.

As for nostalgia, my wife loves the 1930's era, so we set our home up as such. Not entirely, but with the antiques I got from my late-Grandmother, it has a 1930's feel to it. Here is a photo of my wife in an authentic silk 1930's dress. You can be the judge on whether or not it has a 1930's feel. (BTW: We burn coal too still).

 

[MacLawn]

Wow, broken burn coal, eh? When I was a kid, we burned coal in our small fireplace. Augusta Ice and Coal Company, yep, those were the days. I didn't even know you could still buy coal. Love the look above!! That radio!!!

 

[BrokenTrack]

Wow, broken burn coal, eh? When I was a kid, we burned coal in our small fireplace. Augusta Ice and Coal Company, yep, those were the days. I didn't even know you could still buy coal. Love the look above!! That radio!!!

Shhhhhhhhhh.......no one needs to know that coal is still available and the cheapest way to heat your home. In fact you can still get it in about any hardware store around here. Dysarts and a few other places have it, but Agway is the cheapest place.

This is our kitchen. We wanted a wood burning cooking stove, but we did not have the clearances for that, so we went with a 1917 rebuilt Crawford propane stove.

 

[bcp]

That doesn't look 1930's.

This does:



The world was gray then.



Bruce

 

[Doofy]

Shhhhhhhhhh.......no one needs to know that coal is still available and the cheapest way to heat your home. In fact you can still get it in about any hardware store around here. Dysarts and a few other places have it, but Agway is the cheapest place.

This is our kitchen. We wanted a wood burning cooking stove, but we did not have the clearances for that, so we went with a 1917 rebuilt Crawford propane stove.

Love it, that is just awesome!

 

[two_bit_score]

The kitchen was always nice and warm... Grandma liked to use the wood side of her Wedgwood stove and she baked her own bread and was well known for her apple pies and strudel....

I took a picture of her once in front of the stove and she was a little annoyed... then I said I just want to have it for when I'm back home... she laughed... it still makes mom get teary eyed.

I can relate to that also. My granny put her grand kids above everything in her life.



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[two_bit_score]

I am retired now, but I think in the short amount of time between when I got cancer and when I retired, I was more busy then when I worked.

I am a workaholic by nature, so I am always busy. It is hard now with the fatique of cancer because my mind is on "go", but I just cannot get going, or if I do, I have to stop after only an hour or two. I am probably whining so I will stop, but it is hard when you can think of tons of things to do and just can't do it.

Guilt plays into it as well as I know God holds us accountable not only for what we have spent our money on, but also our time. It does not matter if we are retired or not; we all have 24 hours in a day...what is it spent doing?? That is the real question. I try to spend time helping others who have not been as fortunate as me in life. Sure, they might have made some mistakes and I might have avoided some of those vices, I attribute it to God just being gracious in my life.

As for nostalgia, my wife loves the 1930's era, so we set our home up as such. Not entirely, but with the antiques I got from my late-Grandmother, it has a 1930's feel to it. Here is a photo of my wife in an authentic silk 1930's dress. You can be the judge on whether or not it has a 1930's feel. (BTW: We burn coal too still).

I guess natural gas was just what I grew up with and what I'm partial too. In the old days an oil company would put in a 'farm tap' for farmers so they could burn off natural gas from wells. A lot of people lit their heaters and NEVER turned them off, just down. Farm taps were still in use even in the '70's when I was in high school. There are no companies I know of that allow them anymore.


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