Living The Good Life Story

It was an ordinary day.  By now my wife and I have been living at Woodcrest Villa for nine months.  Hard to believe!  Seems like my wife, Carol, and I just moved to Woodcrest a few weeks ago.  I began writing today's story while sitting in my recliner, watching some crazy TV show, and enjoying my wife and two cats.  I turned to Carol and said, "How long have we been living here?"  She looked off, into our backyard, and finally said, "Close to nine months!"  "No way," I said to her!  She replied...."We were here for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., etc., etc."  Wow!  It is hard to believe that we will call Woodcrest Villa our home for a year in the very near future.  Hard to believe we have gained so many new friends in just a year!  At times I think back to living in our previous home on Harrington Drive.  We called our  last home, "The Beach House" since it always reminded us of living along the New Jersey shore.  But, that was almost a years ago!  Do I miss our old home?  .............Ah!....Ah!....Nah!  Had to think a bit about it, since there were so many things that I loved about our last home.  But.....I don't miss painting the all-wood exterior; mowing the almost one acre grass yard every week during the spring, summer and fall; coating the large driveway from time to time; repairing the all wood walkway that ran almost the entire way around the house with a large deck in the rear of the house; raking the leaves in the fall from the dozen or so trees that covered the property; repairing our mailbox every so often since it had been hit a few times during our stay at the house; making repairs and cleaning our fish pond during half the year....and that's only the items on the exterior of the home.  As I sit in front of my MacBook Air, typing this story, I am trying to think about what I HAVE TO DO when I finish my story for today.  NOTHING!  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!  Yeah, I can straighten up the coffee table a bit in case someone might come to visit, or I could hold one of our two cats: The Gray Lady or Snickerdoodle on my lap for a bit, or I could fold the blanket that sits on the back of our sofa, or I could.......there really isn't anything that I HAVE TO DO if I don't want to do it!  So, what do I do all day long?  Well, I am working on a stained glass piece I have on a table in the garage that I have been working on, but doesn't have to be done by any date.  I can play pool with my new friends and Carol can play card games with her friends if we want to, but don't have to if we don't feel like it.  Carol and I went to go to the grocery store today and will make another trip tomorrow for items that the first store doesn't sell.  I guess we should run the vacuum to pick up the cat hair, but we really don't have to do that.  Our biggest chore is making phone calls to our family and friends and answering the phone if we happen to wait too long before we call our family.  Oh yeah.... I do have to clean the kitty litter pan once a day and Carol has to run the vacuum every so often and make a meal or two each day, unless we decide to go out to eat.  And...my biggest job is sitting in my recliner, typing a story for my blog!  Our grass is mowed for us, our trees and shrubs are trimmed for us, our snow is shoveled for us in the winter and the leaves are raked for us in the fall.  Some day you'll get to the point where my wife and I have reached.  We love life!  We have a great family!  We have great friends! We can do what we like to do!   What else is there besides taking care of each other?  Yeah...I'm sure I have missed something, but I have tomorrow to do that!  Anyway... it was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy!  PS - We enjoyed a great rock concert last evening with friends even though we missed seeing the Phillies win one.  And, I missed typing another story for my blog due to having so much fun doing nothing yesterday.