Grandma Henke

Isn’t it fun to day dream?    Yesterday on the way home from Fillmore I found myself thinking of what the perfect retirement scenario would be when Lynn finishes his 35 year career with the State next February.

It starts out with us getting a Path Finder to pull the bit little larger trailer we want, and the Prius Lynn wants.   Dream on …

It continues with us having good health and joints so we can spend 6 months traveling the country like we want to…   

It involves us seeing a lot of our five children, their spouses, and our seventeen grandchildren …

                                It includes decent gas prices … 

It includes seeing a lot of our extended families …

It includes a road trip back east … 

                                                                                      Gee, why not include a small little house with a wrap around porch … make that two of them, one here and one in Seattle …

And that is just the first year.

What is more realistic is …

We continue to live in our home and try to catch up on repairs around the house and put in a new yard …

We go camping often in our little trailer pulled by our old van and keep running our Maxima that has $150,000 miles on it …

We make a couple of trips to the Seattle area and spend more time there at a time …

That we spend more time with our families …

Lynn gets a hip and knee replaced …

And that we take advantage of every moment we have together and make it as fun as possible.    I can be happy doing anything with Lynn by my side.