This is the best decorated house I found in our neighborhood for Thanksgiving. This has been a tough year but I am so thankful I was retired all year and did not have the pressure of having to work from home. We enjoyed the fitness classes, pinochle and shooting pool at the Sr. Center the first two and a half months of the year. I was also off to a great start of strength training with our free membership at Planet Fitness, but since COVID, we just worked along with exercise videos at home.
Also, thanks to being dog owners of a husky mix, we got lots of walking exercise in which I would not have done otherwise. We were able to enjoy some fun days at the Metroparks with Roxy too. This really kept me from becoming a couch potato watching TV all day long which I promised myself I would not do when I retired. My goal is to keep active, so thanks, Roxy for helping me achieve that goal!
It was very strange not teaching Sunday School and attending church regularly this year. Our church did stream online services so at least that was something. I also enjoyed watching Dr. Charles Stanley's sermons on TV and our dog was very happy she did not have crate time every week when we went away. We did not go away much.
I missed playing pickleball with 4 people but am thankful at least my husband and I got a lot of games in at our neighborhood court just playing against each other. It was better than nothing and Roxy could come along to watch us. She preferred that to staying home alone with Spunky Doodle who isn't much company for her.
When my husband fell and broke his collarbone in August, I realized how much he actually did around the house. We are thankful he did not need surgery and that it healed on its own in just four weeks instead of the six which was the estimated healing time.
And finally, we are thankful that we both stayed healthy and did not get COVID. We wear our masks in public when we can't stay 6 feet away and try to keep that 6-foot distance from others during our walks. I do the food shopping with a mask once a week and made a few trips inside the library with my mask and successfully avoiding people. I was able to attend an outside women's Bible Study 6 weeks during the summer with my mask. Only 16 people attended so we could keep apart easily.
What are you thankful for in spite of or because of the changes this year?
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and stay safe!
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