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Terry and I went to Home Depot yesterday and ordered some things for the house here. We would like to do some small upgrades and updates. When I say small, that means small in work not small in cost as one would know! Now I need to install some new door knobs etc but that is for another day, not on Sunday.
When we arrived home I decided to pick the oranges from our tree outside the den window. I juiced several and the juice is sweet and yummy!
It seems that the time flies and I do not get a lot done yet most of the time I am busy I think.
I am excited for tomorrow as I have high hopes that we will get our first league tennis match in. With a bye and a rain out our season has not started. My right calf is a bit sore so it will be court #3 for me as I think I will not have to run as much. I have not played #3 in the last 3 seasons so it will be different. The match is away and we will leave at 11:45.
As I type I see rain on the window but I think it is supposed to let up and be nice today.
Our neighbor John is arriving today. It will be very different without Diane. I think John plans to stay a month or so. His daughter Beth is coming too and I suppose she will take care of her mother's things.
What is it like to be 70? Well I have 3 days of experience but here is a bit of contrasts:
- At 40 I turned down the volume on the radio, now I put my hearing aids in
- At 40 I may take some vitamins for energy now I take pills for high BP and cholesterol
- At 40 I may wear long pants to keep warm, now I put a compression sleeve on to keep my sore calf warm
- At 40 I would wake up, wash my face and get ready for work but now I wake up, clean my trifocals and am kind of ready for the day
- At 40 I would be out the door by 7:00 for work and now I am out the door by 7:00 for tennis
- At 40 I would worry about my hair in the morning as it may stick up in the back, now at 70 that hair in the back has turned into a bare spot
- At 30 my hair was too thick and now it is too thin
- Some how it seems that with older age the aches and pains grow MUCH
- At 50 I would read the sports page, the front page and be finished, now at 70 I often include the obituary in my reading to see if anyone who died was 100 or more
- At 40 my kids were on my mind a lot, now their kids are on my mind a lot
- At 50 I thought about calling Mom and Dad on the weekends and now at 70 I think about all the questions I should have asked them before they died
- At 40 I may think about my siblings once in a while, now at 70 I so enjoy the calls I make to them even though it is not often enough
- At 40 it seemed like life would be endless, now at 70 not so much!
- At 30 all I could think of was what the future might bring, now at 70 the future seems to be shorter and the past often comes to mind
- At 20 I was so happy to be on my own, away from Mom, Dad and the farm, now at 70 I think about growing up and would not trade it for anything
- At 30 brother Ronald and sister Janet seldom entered my mind, now at 70 I find myself often wondering what they would have done had they lived to old age
- At 30 special education IEP's (individual educational plans) come into my life, now IEP means Important Essential People!
- At 20 I thought the worst thing that could happen to me was if I became bald, now people with hair shave their head
- At 20 my world was the farm, college and that was it. Now I remember airplane rides, the great wall in China, the endless landscape in Alaska and more
- At 20 old people were 70, now at 70 old people are 90
- At 30 a car was worthless if it had a 6 cylinder engine, at 70 a 4 cylinder car has get up and go
- At 20 I filled my motorcycle with gas for a dollar, now I fill my car for $50
- At 30 an average house where I lived may have cost $25,000. Today an average house where I live may cost $400,00.
The list could go on and on and on but the bottom line is times change, lives change, cultures change and what is today may not be tomorrow so live, love, serve and enjoy.
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