As always, Barry, your thoughts are insightful and gentle.

Keeping active is essential to the mature person.

I remember my Uncle Glen, who had worked in the Studebaker factory as a young man who was a night watchman someplace when in his eighties. He fell on ice and broke his hip (or some other leg part) and his biggest worry was that once it healed up he might have a problem finding employment at age eighty something.

My Mrs. wants to retire and I want her to be able to step back from the stress and grind but I worry that she might veg out watching tv and playing solitare on the computer.

OTOH she may not need the diversions once retired.

God knows being a fourth grade teacher is not easy.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.