3 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

We have been doing home repairs and remodeling all of our married lives. It's interesting to think about how things have changed in the decades:--We have so many more choices now. Once we went to the big box store and chose from the 6-15 types of tile or flooring or other materials on display. Now the displays are bigger, and one can easily special order from a variety of sources.--Once my spouse could work 12 hour days; I have never been able to do that. Now we are both tired and ready to call it a day after 5-8 hours.--One of the most obvious reasons why we're ready to work more reasonable hours is that we don't have the physical stamina that we once did. I am about to turn 61, and my spouse will be 62 in September. Our 20-something selves could go and go, even as I wished we were doing something more fun. We could get up day after day and do hard, physical labor. Now we plan some rest days, in part because I have other work to do, in part because we need to recover.--You would…

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