Finally Finished

Dee Randall

A lot of people retire to smaller quarters only to discover that when they stop working they find that they are at home many more hours (the walls will close in on you) and develop many more projects that require lots of space. I retired to a house about a third larger than I lived in while working... I'm very, very glad I did, in fact I sometimes think I should have chosen a house with double the space... but fortunately this property included a small (900 sf)guest-rental house plus detached one car garage and heated lean-to shed (which I don't rent) and recently bit by bit I've begun to take it over with my projects. The heated shed has become a small workshop for grinding etc., the garage has become my gardening shed (it's pretty much full) and I've already made the largest bedroom in the house my art studio for my watercolor painting. That house also of course has a decent sized kitchen (10x15)... and every once in a while I consider a small bake shop just to supply bread to the locals... there isn't a decent loaf to be had here for many miles. Then I wake up from my reverie and realize how I have more than enough to keep busy. But just from this kitchen and a couple of ovens in the second bedroom I can easly produce a hundred loaves of good sour dough Jewish rye every day. And there's a third bedroom that'll hold two more ovens where I can bake a thousand kiaser rolls a day... the local restaurants would snap up all I can produce But then I'd not have any time for all my other endeavers. Any young person with ambition-motivation, and ain't ascared to sweat 12 hour days, could make a lot of money moving to a rural area and opening a bake shop, that's if they don't pruduce the usual hillybilly crap.

Anyways, I got off track... anyone planning to retire do not, I repeat, DO NOT retire to smaller quarters... you'll be very sorry.

Sheldon