Good Friday afternoon everyone. It’s a beautiful afternoon here in Alabama and I hope you were all having a good afternoon. I thought I would come here to the blog just to say hello and wish you all well. You know being on your own at 70 it’s not so bad. It’s worked out OK even with everything I had to go through to get here. There have been a few days when I wondered did I make a mistake. I don’t think so. It’s been almost 2 months since my total hip replacement and I’m healing nicely inside and out getting more active, hoping to find a job as soon as I’m released from the surgeon that will be a mess because finances are hard. I’ve shared that with everyone of you, you know that if you live alone, you don’t get alimony and you live only on your Social Security. It’s difficult with the mortgage that’s given. Anyway, onto better things are you looking forward to summer? I remember as a kid I always looked forward to summer and recently since I’ve been alone here by myself mostly in the afternoon and evenings I sit outback a lot and my screened in porch and I think about my childhood and I think about the simpler times and I can almost hear my mom‘s voice audibly and remember playing kickball in the streets with the neighborhood kids and staying out until the street lights came on and such happier. Simpler times. Then there are those days when I think what a mess I’ve made of my life that I’ve let someone on this earth dictate to me since the beginning, it didn’t matter what I really wanted. I’m not even sure that I knew I just went with or so there wouldn’t be any problems. I can tell you this much if I did not have a mortgage my air would be running today. I would be cool comfortable and enjoying my life a little better but that’s not the case and it’s not the end of the world peace of mind at the end of the day means so much and I am happy to say that I have finally found that. You cannot put a price on piece of mind and if you’ve never had it go find it go get it go after it and if you’ve had it, you don’t know how blessed you are. I’m 70 and until this year I had never really had peace of mind. I’m looking forward to being able to move. Better get around better get to the pool we started walking and I’ve really enjoyed that that’s helped me an awful lot and I hope to get to the pool and get in the water and do some exercises. I’ve really been blessed in my life with good friends and those are the people that keep me going daily. Give me sometimes a reason to get out of my house. It’s funny at 70 I was sitting here thinking of childhood friends in my neighborhood people that I had dated once or twice in high school and trying to pinpoint their last names and so many years ago I used to think I would never forget these things, but you do as we get older. We do forget names and last names or addresses and phone numbers and someone will say remember when we did this or that and you’re thinking no I don’t. It’s a little scary, isn’t it? But every morning that I open my eyes, I thank the Lord for another day. I tell people I’m in my fourth quarter and I could’ve stayed in a relationship where I didn’t have a moment’s piece and everything that I did was wrong. I couldn’t do anything right but I chose not to do that. I chose to take this fourth quarter and the mess that I feel like I made of the first 3/4 and make this one right by the grace of God. I’m doing the best I can. Wishing you all a blessed weekend take care of yourselves and thank you for stopping by