I have yet to figure out how to quote a portion of a previous comment but cut n paste from Yvonne says " I think that some days are just boring or lonely, no matter whether we are married or alone , and some days are happy ones, either way, too.... Now there I sit alone most of my days, my days have me just climbing the walls waiting for spring with the hole that I can refund my ambition to actually get out a DO something, a country boy at heart still living an hour round trip to town I simply have no desire to go to the only places where one can 'socialize' despite enjoying brief conversations with the very limited folks I DO meet. Are there other rural folks who are forced to move to town to retain their sanity as well as their pocket book, it is NOT something I intend to do, I prefer to go nuts here in my wooded hideaway than trapped in an in town 'home'....
You and I are lucky. Some think I am kidding when I say just throw me on the mulch/manure pile. I remember when town was smaller and the only people who were sent to nursing homes had money to drain. Folks did what they could. Police would help old folks back to their homes if they got out and lost. Out in the boonies, now, who's gonna know?
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I live in town, but it's a very small town with two gas stations, one supermarket, a couple of hardware stores, and a half dozen restaurants whose days and hours are mostly indeterminable. On the occasion that I feel like going to a restaurant, they're all closed. We are about 70 miles from a town large enough to have a department store. While there is a Walmart 20-25 miles away, it's one of the smaller Walmarts. Prior to Fauci's COVID-19 putting the restaurants out of business, I used to stop off at a restaurant for coffee if I was in the mood for socializing, but we don't have any restaurants (other than MacDonalds) that are open during regular hours anymore. Even when they have posted hours, they change them often, and some of them close early if things are slow, so I rarely bother with local restaurants anymore. We do have a small hospital here, however, and it can handle some stuff, including some surgeries. We drive into Bangor (Maine) once or twice a month, usually when one or the other of us (usually my wife) has an appointment for something, and I sometimes go with her, and we'll make a day of it, occasionally even staying over at a hotel, eating at one of the more stable restaurants in Bangor, or maybe even seeing a movie. Other than that, my wife is way more sociable than I am, although she rarely logs in here, so she's off visiting people nearly every day. Although she sometimes tries to make it sound like something that has to be done, I know better. I generally stay home. When I go out, it's to putter around in the yard or to go for solitary walks. Except in the winter, my walks are usually in the woods, so I don't come across people. Even in the winter, there are very few people out and about on the sidewalks during the winter. Still, I haven't been tempted to move into a larger town. I'd be okay moving to a more rural area.
Thank you all for your support.... now if I could only remember your helpful input the next time I need it..... I am quite sure nobody else on this forum has such 'gaps'.... Is there a thread for "loosing it" here?
Ladies, ladies, there is only so much of me to go around. Please. Oh wait, it was just one lady and she was talking about the avatars. Well I'll just have to fall back on my rich internal fantasy life.
Two gas stations AND a supermarket AND several restaurants wow a huge town, LOL Our nearest real shopping center is a small city 1/2 hr drive away, there is a small village up he road a little way but apart from a gas station (which is only there because its at the junction of two highways) it has very little else to offer which is typical of other villages in the area. Apart from bi monthly trips to 'town' for grocery's usually by my son and any medical appointments I rarely find the need to leave my hideaway, hence my rather lonely life style, no one to blame but myself!