So, what do we do with all that time?!

Now that we're finally (really) retired, we get asked a lot - what do you do with all that time?  From Paula's point of view, a lot of the same old stuff, though I get to help more now that I don't have the excuse, "Gotta go to work, honey."
Church stuff fills in some of those 'empty hours.'  I've been linked with the young men of our congregation ever since I was a young man.

Paula has always had busy assignments; most recently, she's the Scout Committee ChairWoman/Person, and has whipped that in to shape.

She's also been assigned to help with the Family History Library.

Owning a house means maintaining it, and she has been working since we got home from Peru to bend the gardens to her will, among other things.

We're planning a bike trip in the southern hemisphere in February, which means staying in shape meanwhile in the northern hemisphere.  Paula and I do at least a 50-mile ride and a couple of shorter ones each week, bundled appropriately.

Avoiding the local wildlife.  And you Texans think YOU have big rabbits...

I'm trying to find some of the lines from Rubaiyat by Omar Kayaam.  Ah, yes, here they are:  

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, 

A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou 

Beside me singing in the Wilderness— 

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow

OK, pretending that southern Wake County is a paradise in the wilderness (ignoring the subdivisions springing up), and that neither one of us sings very well, 

A Bike Seat, comfortable enow,

A Water Bottle, Granola Bar - and Thou

Beside me resting by the Trail,

Your Tire, the victim of a Nail 

Yeah, well, that one may not be quoted for a thousand years.  Meanwhile, we're staying plenty busy, but thoroughly enjoying the nice freedom to mostly choose what kind of busy.  

We hope you're also finding enough to stay out of trouble.

Dave & Paula