Hi Dear Folk,
Above photo taken at Longwood Gardens.
When it gets to about four PM, dinner is in the oven and I'm sitting in the Simla room, with the stove on, Tuppy basking in heat and doing a little crochet, watching Acorn TV or listening to a Podcast, then it sets in how good retirement is. At four PM I still would be at the office with another three hours to go before I'd be home and this time of year all in the dark.
Mr. B. cleaned the Virginia creeper off the garage roof and cleaned out all the gutters. I stood and held the ladder and cleared up the debris. My goodness so much to clean up out there when the leaves fall. I dusted the studio room now needs vacuuming but at least I'll be able to sit in there without a guilty conscience. Made dinner, chicken, carrots sweet potatoes, with onion cooked with a little olive oil and baked in the oven. Sprinkled with cheese at the end. Was good.
Also made bread and butter pickles today, with some left over cucumbers I had that I didn't want to go to waste. This is the type you can just keep in the fridge for a month.
I phoned about the health insurance for next year. We've been on Obama since I left work and it was not too expensive, now for the coming year because the government subsidies have been cut back will now cost $550 for the same plan, so needless to say we'll have to cut down to an even lesser plan.
Now get this, because I'm 65 and can go on medicare next year, part way through the year, but Mr. B. is three years younger, and will have to stay on it, the health insurance that we are looking at for next year would actually more than double when I come off it, and yet they will be insuring one less person, now go figure that? There is no figuring the health care system in the USA.
Yes I know we no longer will be penalized for not having healthcare, heaven forbid you should actually be ill, and not have health insurance, it's expensive enough when you do, but were we told subsidies would be cut so much? Or did I miss that one?
Sunday we were invited out to a late lunch and watched Victoria and Abdul, a very good movie with Judy Dench playing the queen.
Christine
Above photo taken at Longwood Gardens.
When it gets to about four PM, dinner is in the oven and I'm sitting in the Simla room, with the stove on, Tuppy basking in heat and doing a little crochet, watching Acorn TV or listening to a Podcast, then it sets in how good retirement is. At four PM I still would be at the office with another three hours to go before I'd be home and this time of year all in the dark.
Mr. B. cleaned the Virginia creeper off the garage roof and cleaned out all the gutters. I stood and held the ladder and cleared up the debris. My goodness so much to clean up out there when the leaves fall. I dusted the studio room now needs vacuuming but at least I'll be able to sit in there without a guilty conscience. Made dinner, chicken, carrots sweet potatoes, with onion cooked with a little olive oil and baked in the oven. Sprinkled with cheese at the end. Was good.
Also made bread and butter pickles today, with some left over cucumbers I had that I didn't want to go to waste. This is the type you can just keep in the fridge for a month.
I phoned about the health insurance for next year. We've been on Obama since I left work and it was not too expensive, now for the coming year because the government subsidies have been cut back will now cost $550 for the same plan, so needless to say we'll have to cut down to an even lesser plan.
Now get this, because I'm 65 and can go on medicare next year, part way through the year, but Mr. B. is three years younger, and will have to stay on it, the health insurance that we are looking at for next year would actually more than double when I come off it, and yet they will be insuring one less person, now go figure that? There is no figuring the health care system in the USA.
Yes I know we no longer will be penalized for not having healthcare, heaven forbid you should actually be ill, and not have health insurance, it's expensive enough when you do, but were we told subsidies would be cut so much? Or did I miss that one?
Sunday we were invited out to a late lunch and watched Victoria and Abdul, a very good movie with Judy Dench playing the queen.
Christine
Thank goodness for the NHS despite its problems.
ReplyDeleteWe were discussing this the other day. Our NHS is not what it was but at least we still have it. We just learn to be patient. Most of us have to pay out for private treatment of some sort but at least we do have that safety net of NHS.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to be cost indoors at this time of year.