Mid-morning. You just woke up from a nap
after taking a pain pill for arthritis. Last evening before supper Carol
suggested Tim mow the lawn this time as he was mowing his own and he agreed and
finished before the rains hit again.
1021 hours. I thanked Carol again this morning for the suggestion as the
lawn is growing quickly. I would have had to rake if I waited. The grass is wet
and it will be raining off and on today. I am happy she made the suggesting and
pleased that Tim could mow.
Carol made stuffed green peppers and fresh
green beans for lunch and it tasted quite good. The sun is out and so are more
leaves and flowering trees and plants. You have two native white flowering
hawthorn trees, one in front and one in the backyard, and the many buckeye
trees are flourishing also. The oaks and nearby walnuts are budding – you miss
the many ash trees – you had a dozen cut down at least and the neighbors on
both sides had fifteen to twenty cut down in the last two years. Carol is
taking a quick shower (you had a bath earlier, after your forty minutes of
exercises). You are ready to go out to edit/read in the shade if nothing else –
with a Graeter’s stop certainly in the realm of probability. – Amorella
1343 hours. I am musing on a variety of subjects.
What else is new, boy? – Amorella
I want my passions to show in these Merlyn books.
They show in and between the lines, my young
friend you need not concern yourself about that, but you are a relative
even-tempered fellow and do not flower as many do. In fact, relative to the
plant world I see you more as a vine, English ivy will do. – Amorella
1349 hours. I am not that aggressive Amorella. I don’t really know
anyone that aggressive.
You have many close friends and family who
are flowers, so to speak, I think many could easily see you as a vine in
context. – Amorella
1354 hours. In this context I can see that. Not a clinging vine I hope.
Carol is on page 265 of Johansen’s On the Run. You just completed
the editing of chapter thirteen. You are at the far north end of Pine Hill
Lakes Park in the semi-shade of trees on the hill about fifteen feet from the
front of the Honda. Your right forearm is already tanned while your left is
not. This bothers you. Earlier you took a ride up to the ancient Dairy Queen in
Lebanon. Carol had a cone dipped in chocolate and you had a small hot fudge
sundae then you drove on little used back roads until you finally arrived here
at the park, about a sixteen to twenty mile afternoon jaunt about the country
roads of Warren County. – Amorella
1550 hours. I am pleased that some of this chapter did not need so much
rewriting. Maybe I can get it completed before the night is out. Life is every
interesting. Taking a leisurely Sunday drive on a Tuesday afternoon is awesome;
it is one of the small joys of retirement with a pension.
You hesitated to add ‘pension’ but others
your age earned pensions also. The idea was to set up a social oriented reward
for thirty or so years of full time work.
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pension 1
– noun
a
regular payment made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to
which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life.
•
a regular payment made by the government to people of or above the official
retirement age and to some widows and disabled people.
• chiefly historical
a regular payment made to a royal favorite or to
an artist or scholar to enable them to carry on work that is of public interest
or value.
Selected from Oxford-American
software
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You and Carol earned yours from loyal public service to the people from the State of Ohio Teachers’ Retirement Fund, Carol for thirty-two years of service and you for thirty-seven. You two and the public schools you worked for contributed to the pension. The concept appears outdated in today’s world but you earned it in an earlier version of today’s world. Don’t think twice about whether this is fair or equitable. You can’t compare apples and oranges, boy; you know that. All for now, post when convenient. Later, dude. – Amorella
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