Weekend reflections.

It has been a very peaceful Sunday overall, but I don't think that Mark and I are particularly fast learners sometimes.

We have noticed since we have been retired how much more pleasant it is to get out in our community on weekdays as opposed to weekends. Yet today, instead of just staying around home, we went roamin' around town.

Along with everyone else.

The coolest thing about being retired is having the ability to go out during the day on weekdays to shop. Grocery stores are (if not empty) at least tolerably less busy. Traffic is a zillion times better during the weekdays. Also, we don't have to exercise with everyone else in the city at the rec center on weekdays, only the health conscious Moms and Senior Citizens. There are relatively few others in there.

Today we found a much different crowd, and it looked like a lot of guys who were maybe deprived of  any sports to watch on TV and were out to find a pickup basketball game in the gym or were perhaps involved in some kind of intramural leagues. There were less people involved in the cardio room where we always are, and more involved in the weight room area.

Life is just a lot different somehow during the calm, peaceful mornings and afternoons during the week.

So - note to self - remember to shop during the week and maybe schedule more time to do special things with the grand-kids on the weekends. We had them for eight hours this weekend on Saturday, and that was so much fun.

We went to a park to play outside, we played games, we had a nice meal together, we bought some Easter decorations, they helped me decorate the house: and that is what a grandparent should do with the weekends.

Yeah.

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