Lost in Thought

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 My wife knows when I am lost in thought.  I’m not thinking about what I’m doing.  I get that way sometimes.  It seems I have a single obsession that takes me down my own path.  Sometimes I don’t feel as though I do enough, but at least my wife knows where I am at times even though my head isn’t there.  

I can get lost in my spirituality.  I need distractions and since college football is over I’ve been trying to follow college basketball some but it’s not the same.  Usually I don’t care who wins.  It’s not the same.  I know I need to get out more, but since our gym membership is no longer being paid by insurance I’ve walked a mile and a third almost every day this year.  

My wife likes to get out and go grocery shopping.  The stores are big enough that if we go up and down every aisle we can do quite a bit of walking.  It’s not the same as being out in the fresh air and sunshine but it is some exercise.  Fortunately at my age my hips and knees are still in pretty good shape.  I can average about 22 minutes for my walk, which I think is pretty good.

My heart won’t allow me to train for marathons, but still I do it for my heart.  I just don’t want to go in the hospital.  So, I try to keep in shape and keep my weight down to around 185.  As for my smoking a pipe, the fact is that it is a stress reducer.  It doesn’t raise my BP, but actually lowers it.  My wife and I will talk as I smoke my pipe as she sits on the lanai with me.  

Maybe eventually I’ll get into Florida fishing.  But this morning it is my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with some Irish Blessing pipe tobacco.  My coffee this morning is Stumptown Homestead coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave  

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