The best retirement advice i had read on one of the boomer-blogs was: get a push-mower. While retirement remains

a few years away (oh well, could be worse - what's the point of bragging bucks, while rejecting Scripture...oh, don't wanna go there).  Anyway, while i have too much lawn. to mow with a push - and very prefer to keep the lawn service; it's expensive, but the team has it all done within 45 minutes - the push will enable me to deal with scrubby areas, which will remain at this time.  Using a chainsaw would solve much of that, but chainsaws scare me.  Yes, i would love to have a perfect lawn ... that and other project$ done...

The blogger who recommended the push, did so for exercise sake.  Right now, am loping brush, but by winter, most of that will be loped, raked up and turned to ash - per the handy-dandy burn barrel.   Look forward to when that is done - dirty, sweatie, gritty job.  So, there remains plenty of exercise equipment in my own personal gym :)

Anyway, sort of related to retIrement planning and LIfE$tyle, was a recent comment, concerning the probability of older people saying what just isn't so, concerning (gaag) dating.  Well, the thought occurred to me, yesterday while working in the yard.  If one area of life is showcased as something, which it's usually so not, it's very probable that the money-show - yeah, eat-yer-heart-out (plebe) at MY 1/2 mil I have in the bank ... is more like monopoly money than the real thing.  In short, if there's one (boomer) lie, there's bound to be others.  

my beef about the moneyshow is, how it raises the unclean spirit of envy and covetousness.  Yep, even Asaph - ASAPH - came down a really toxic dose of it.  Almost killed him.  Ya know, it's not like Asaph was just some clerk doing mail-runs.  (Psalm 73) 

And you thought covid was contagious.