One day in retirement
First I should give you a bit of background on what I did as a career, where I live, as they have a large bearing on what my retirement is like.
I spent my working life in the woods industry, the early part was in the woods running heavy equipment, next into the maintenance and fabricating part of the lumber industry.
As the years went by I had the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the manufacturing process of lumber.
This is the old story of starting at the bottom and ending at the top, finishing in a senior management position. My normal workday was about ten and one half hours.
So you can see there is a substantial amount of time to fill, not to mention getting in my wife’s time space, disrupting her routines. More on that later.
I live on a lakefront piece of property, 1.6 acres, with my wife of forty-three years, who is also retired. The children are out on their own, spread all over the country, so they are not around very much.
Over the years we have planted a lot of flower gardens and have a fair amount of grass to mow. We built all the buildings as maintenance free as possible.
As you can see I have a lot of things to stay busy with, In the winter there is very long driveway and the walkways to keep clean, this winter it snow just about every day, which was good, kept me busy.
In this part of northwestern Ontario the winter is long and cold.
Even though I try not to let boredom sneak into my life it still does sometimes.
Spring is just around the corner, and a lot more things to do in the summer.
After a year and a half of retirement, the focus on what is important and what is not, is becoming much clearer as time passes by. At this point in time they are, keeping healthy, both in mind and body and being wise in our investments, so we can get a return and hopefully be able a little more comfortable in our later life.
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