We have a dining room and a couple of cooks Matthew.  Most of the menus don't appeal much to me so I cook for myself a lot in my room.  But at my age a slow death over good food would be most welcome.

Noel

3 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

Peach Cobbler baked with Lard

Worse.  It was baked with margarine.

I always figured men died earlier due to stress.  But that takes away from the joke.  Sorry 'bout that.  I vow to do better in the future.

Note:  Lard is the porcine form of beef tallow. You know, beef tallow, the stuff that made McDonalds french fries taste so good. 🙂 

Hook

14 minutes ago, LHookins said:

I always figured men died earlier due to stress.  

Oh I could have added the 'Stressed' part too, but I was going light with the joke, this is a Family Forum 😁

14 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

They all gave them a Slow Death over decades by feeding them Peach Cobler baked with Lard I guess 🤣

Reminds me of the best “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episode of all time.  Can’t find the entire episode online, but the clip below shows the “delicious” ending.  The woman was married to a police officer who came home one day and told her he was leaving her for  another woman.  She responds later by taking a frozen leg of lamb and hitting him on the head from behind, killing him.

 

Men retire and sit in front of a PC flying while their body starts wasting away. Women never retire.

I don't know about that, lol. A few of us into our 70s do the gym three times a week (for 20+ years), ride 800+# motorcycles, cut neighbor's grass....in addition to enjoying flight sims. I think part of the reason some guys check out earlier than others is they lose interest in any hobbies etc and this results in a loss of interest in life. Then there is the luck of the draw with getting the big C, certain social habits and so on.

https://youtu.be/HMv0ghwPbJA

21 hours ago, dbw1 said:

I think part of the reason some guys check out earlier than others is they lose interest in any hobbies etc and this results in a loss of interest in life.

I see a lot of that here in our little retirement village.

Men seem to sequester themselves in their rooms while the women take full advantage of the activities that are offered every day,

I had to give up my favorite recreations like flying a C152 or Cherokee a couple times a month and hiking and backpacking and fly fishing in the wilderness.  A computer crash terminated my flightsimming since I didn't want to bother with all of the reinstallation.   But once I came here instead of mourning what I couldn't do anymore I completely changed my lifestyle and embraced what this place had to offer..

I'm looking forward to playing bingo with the ladies this afternoon.  Last night I won ten bucks playing poker.  Tomorrow afternoon is our weekly social with ice cream served.  There will be music and I will dace with a half dozen or so of the ladies.  Then there is the one on one playing Scrabble or checkers.  I'm teaching two of the ladies how to play chess.

That old saying, "When one door closes another door opens."  When it comes time to examine what's in the open door embrace it.  Don't mourn over what's left behind in the door that closed.

And I've gotta say AVSIM's hangar chat forum is one thing I'm glad I brought with me before that door of the past closed.

Noel

5 hours ago, birdguy said:

I see a lot of that here in our little retirement village.

Men seem to sequester themselves in their rooms while the women take full advantage of the activities that are offered every day,

I had to give up my favorite recreations like flying a C152 or Cherokee a couple times a month and hiking and backpacking and fly fishing in the wilderness.  A computer crash terminated my flightsimming since I didn't want to bother with all of the reinstallation.   But once I came here instead of mourning what I couldn't do anymore I completely changed my lifestyle and embraced what this place had to offer..

I'm looking forward to playing bingo with the ladies this afternoon.  Last night I won ten bucks playing poker.  Tomorrow afternoon is our weekly social with ice cream served.  There will be music and I will dace with a half dozen or so of the ladies.  Then there is the one on one playing Scrabble or checkers.  I'm teaching two of the ladies how to play chess.

That old saying, "When one door closes another door opens."  When it comes time to examine what's in the open door embrace it.  Don't mourn over what's left behind in the door that closed.

And I've gotta say AVSIM's hangar chat forum is one thing I'm glad I brought with me before that door of the past closed.

Noel

That's the right way to embrace retirement. I've known more than a few that had no interests or hobbies and dreaded retirement.

I retired in 2016 after a career of 40 years flying. Both fixed and rotary, mainly blue collar flying, a lot of which was forest fire suppression. The last 7 years was mainly as an office monkey with flying 10% of the time. When I retired I was content to walk away from rw flying. I had a good interesting run with it. Figured it was time to spend more time on the bike.

I have seldom had a bored day in all this retirement time. Enjoy my motorcycle, still shoot, read lots, enjoy movies. Really enjoy my flight simming. With all the high end "study" aircraft available it lets me experience machinery I never got my hands on in real life. Maybe down the road you'll get the spark to get back at flight sims. I have taken breaks from it. All the best.

8 hours ago, birdguy said:

I'm looking forward to playing bingo with the ladies this afternoon.  Last night I won ten bucks playing poker.  Tomorrow afternoon is our weekly social with ice cream served.  There will be music and I will dace with a half dozen or so of the ladies.  Then there is the one on one playing Scrabble or checkers.  I'm teaching two of the ladies how to play chess.

To be honest the best medicine is If you can never go a week without dancing, that is both exercise and boosts the endorphins, not many people get an opportunity to even dance once a year but if its available for you go for it. I used to do my weekly Salsa Dancing one of my clients got me into it, I enjoyed it. Now my daughters are in the dance schools so we are active with them.

Chess, Checkers, Scrabble all good for the ol Brain Activity, and also coming onto AVSIM regularly, because this place keeps up our writing, spelling and gramar skills, and networking with others (I turned my Spell Check off so I can keep working that part of my brain to correct myself rather then the computer). Keep being well my friend.

4 hours ago, dbw1 said:

Maybe down the road you'll get the spark to get back at flight sims.

At 91 I don't really have that much 'down the road' left.  But that's OK.  I still have memories of beautiful roads I traversed through the years.

That's one thing I forgot to mention in my original post.  Memories.  Sometimes I'll sit back in my recliner and bring up some good ones.  I have time to do that now.  My son is gone now and I remember the hiking and fishing trips we went on.  It brings him back to life for me for a little while.  Same for my wife who is gone now.  It's hard to explain.  But leaning back in the recliner with the lights dimmed and the TV off I can still be with them for a while enjoying the things we have done together.

Noel

 

19 hours ago, birdguy said:

I see a lot of that here in our little retirement village.

Men seem to sequester themselves in their rooms while the women take full advantage of the activities that are offered every day,

I had to give up my favorite recreations like flying a C152 or Cherokee a couple times a month and hiking and backpacking and fly fishing in the wilderness.  A computer crash terminated my flightsimming since I didn't want to bother with all of the reinstallation.   But once I came here instead of mourning what I couldn't do anymore I completely changed my lifestyle and embraced what this place had to offer..

I'm looking forward to playing bingo with the ladies this afternoon.  Last night I won ten bucks playing poker.  Tomorrow afternoon is our weekly social with ice cream served.  There will be music and I will dace with a half dozen or so of the ladies.  Then there is the one on one playing Scrabble or checkers.  I'm teaching two of the ladies how to play chess.

That old saying, "When one door closes another door opens."  When it comes time to examine what's in the open door embrace it.  Don't mourn over what's left behind in the door that closed.

And I've gotta say AVSIM's hangar chat forum is one thing I'm glad I brought with me before that door of the past closed.

Noel

Outstanding advice, Noel.

For this thread, here is the song of the night, this is Satire and she is a Comedian, and Paul McCartney makes a cameo in the end....

 

16 hours ago, birdguy said:

At 91 I don't really have that much 'down the road' left.  But that's OK.  I still have memories of beautiful roads I traversed through the years.

That's one thing I forgot to mention in my original post.  Memories.  Sometimes I'll sit back in my recliner and bring up some good ones.  I have time to do that now.  My son is gone now and I remember the hiking and fishing trips we went on.  It brings him back to life for me for a little while.  Same for my wife who is gone now.  It's hard to explain.  But leaning back in the recliner with the lights dimmed and the TV off I can still be with them for a while enjoying the things we have done together.

Noel

 

20 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

For this thread, here is the song of the night, this is Satire and she is a Comedian, and Paul McCartney makes a cameo in the end....

 

Thanks for the walk down memory lane!  I had forgotten about Tracey Ullman and her song.  The 80's was a great decade for me.