You are a very lucky lady. Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: juanita Sent: 03/01/2011 5:20:15 PM Subject: Re: [ML] a day's work/retiring I retired a year before my husband and thoroughly enjoyed every moment. I left the house shortly after he went to work @ 7 AM and walked 3-5 mi. every day before noon. Then if the weather was really nice, I'd go another couple miles in the afternoon. I had all the hours enjoying the air, seeing friends, thinking and planning the days my husband would retire and all the things we could do together. This was in 1984 .... he retired in 1985 and we began researching our family history shortly thereafter. We traveled in our camper or van over 300,000 miles the next ten years....visiting all the places our ancestors had lived. One year we went from the central part of the US to Maine and Vermont and then back across the length of the country to southern California. Stopping at court houses, libraries, genealogy societies, newspaper offices and any place that looked interested, we compiled tons of information. The time we spent at home then was spent writing a book and researching via the US mail. I can honestly say we've never had a moment we didn't enjoy together.....even with inclement weather or disappointments that some things didn't turn out as planned. We thank God for our health and the ability to enjoy each day. I tell everyone to enjoy life ... the years fly by much too quickly. I'm thankful for every moment - the marriage my dad once told me would never last, will reach 70 years next year. We'd do it all over again. juanita > I hope you have many years of retirement...Hubby has been hanging > around bugging me full time for more than 10 years now.........and has > finally settled into getting enough' make work' to keep him fairly > busy....I had a horrible time getting used to not having any alone > time at all...and THAT still bothers me....I have my own room, so can > spend all the time I want to in here...Going to bed any old time, > getting up when I want , and lying down for a nap as Email truncated to 2,000 characters :::0:b90c394e726aceba1d5689f278644fbc:7d0::::