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Word of the Day: Putter around
The evenings and early mornings are beginning to get quite chilly here in Wakayama.
Soon there’ll be no more puttering around in the garden for me.
Can you believe it’s already November first?
Where does the time go?
Halloween 2019 is now history, and we can look forward to Christmas.
I like Christmas and New Year’s.
Because I live here in Japan, I get to enjoy two weeks of lazing around the house, having a beer with lunch and otherwise enjoying some freedom away from the grindstone.
Although it doesn’t snow much here in winter, it’s still too cold to enjoy puttering around outside.
What I mean by putter around is to take care of little odd jobs around the house.
There’s no rush, so I can take my time and spend a relaxing afternoon pulling weeds, washing the car or other such things.
The funny thing is I had always thought I would be able to spend my retirement dividing my time between puttering around in a little workshop and growing vegetables in a small garden.
I’ve had that image since I was a young boy.
Growing up in the countryside, you see that people don’t live by the clock.
They do things when they feel like it and not before.
Now, governments are starting to push back retirement until nearly 70 years of age.
I’m beginning to feel that I’ve been robbed of something I never had an opportunity to enjoy.
I suppose puttering around in retirement will be a foreign concept in a few years.
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