Two – As in a Pair
I can honestly say that Dennis and I can be called “a pair to draw to.” Dennis retired several years before I did and I could have filled a notebook with all of the advise and warnings that we were given when there would be a pair of retired people living in a relatively small home. Silly people.
The day came when I did I retired and the sky did not fall. Dennis and I each have our interests and surprisingly our home is large enough that we find ourselves seeking and searching the other out at times. Dennis has several garages complete with work benches in each and of course I have my sewing and craft area in the basement. The porch off of the garage is the mutual space where we sip coffee twelve months out of the year, watch a bit of television, keep tabs on the Koi in the pond and enjoy a yard that has had a lot of man hours spent on it.
Rocking Chairs Getting a Break
One thing we agreed upon immediately when we were visiting the Sam’s Club in Mankato were the rocking chairs that were on display. It’s always a good thing to run errands with the pickup as you never ever know what you are going to find to bring back home. The pair of rockers for the elderly folks living on Stauffer Avenue rocked happily in the back of the pickup on the trip home. If we were able to receive the amount of cents per mile that can be claimed and payed on business vehicle use, the amount of miles we have put on our rockers in the last three years would enable Dennis to add onto the garage yet another time.
Today I went out, wet my finger in my mouth and held it to the air and there were no cotton balls flying off of the huge Cottonwood tree in the neighbor’s yard. The breeze was strong enough that the biting bugs were nonexistent in the shady area of the yard. The humidity was less than it had been in weeks and this was my day to give the pair of rockers a coat of much needed oil. Tomorrow Dennis and I will be back in business whiling away some part of the day enjoying our rocking chairs.