Thursday, December 1, 2011

Our Second Year in the Retired Lane

Is there a sun in Indiana?  Jack and I are beginning to wonder.....can you say depressing?  Studies have proven that the sun or bright light lifts the spirit.  Since I was kicked out of Ace Hardware and their green house section (I think they were yelling something about my TV and cooler as being the last straw) I knew it was time to head South. But three reasons kept us in Warsaw through the end of the year; 1) Celebrating my sister's birthday with her as we have done every year 2) Christmas with are sons 3) Bringing in the New Year with our dear friends Jim and Linda.  However,  as much as I love each and every one of the aforementioned I am thinking that for the sake of our sanity, Jack and I must head South in October next year. 

We've tried to stay busy while in Warsaw these past few months but have to tell you it didn't work out too well.  Going to the fitness center began to be a pain in the butt.  Literally.  At first, as most people do, I began gunghoe with my workout.  The more I worked out the more I enjoyed it.  But then a week and a half off to stay with our niece, Ellie,  in Lancaster put us out of the mood and going back became a pain in the butt; and the hip and the knee.  Most of us know how that merry-go-round works.  We've all been on it. The count down in the search of sunshine was on.