Originally Posted by
GingerK
mine has become more work and less fun every year since he retired. Right now, he is stretched out in his Lazy Boy having a pre dinner nap 'because it was such a chore to take the dog into the back yard and sit on the deck for half an hour' while I fed the cats and prepped supper.
Your comment made me think of my sweet grandmother. She is 91 and lives at the Wrinkle Ranch. She enjoys it immensely - 2 meals a day (which is plenty for her), lots of friends, lots of games and fun activities. She and my grandfather (who passed in 2021) moved there several years ago, but he was very reluctant to go. I think he had this image in his head of laying in bed in a ward all day until he finally died, so he fought it for a long time. Finally my grandma had enough and snapped. She told him he'd been retired for the last 25 years, but SHE was still cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doing laundry and yard work, and she wanted to retire too!! I think it took him by surprise; he'd never looked at those chores as "work". Sigh. Good for Grandma, I cheered her on.