Skinny dipping in an outdoor shower

Do you ever have those days in your life when everything is perfect? All the stars align, nothing is pressing to get done and a good book is calling your name.  Time itself is not important and everything is in balance. You can say mmm.. don’t think I will do anything today, maybe I’ll just lay out on the deck with a good book.

I had one of those days yesterday. For some reason, I was lazy and uninspired and couldn’t get motivated to do anything. There are always things to do when you own a cabin at the lake but ‘nothing’ was jumping out at me and certainly ‘nothing’ can wait another day.

There are a lot of people who can’t relax and just do nothing. Some need a drink or two or three to slow down the brain activity and allow it to relax. Some need television, others need music or maybe sex, hmmm.. I like that one. I am not one of those people, well maybe the sex thing :  ) I can relax and do nothing, no problem.

Writing has become my relaxation outlet most days, but yesterday I didn’t feel like writing or anything. I permitted myself to lay out on the deck and read. How many get to do that? With kids, it’s hard to get one of those days unless you send them off to camp or the store to buy all the ice cream they want… just saying. Being married is like still having a kid only older.

I’m not saying you can’t have a perfect day if you have kids and are married. You can always ship the kids off to the grandparents. Buy the hubby a case of beer and put some X-rated videos on top of the dresser in the bedroom.  Then permit yourself to do nothing, and that is where I shine.

You would think I have a lot of days like that, being single again, and my kids are long gone. The truth is we could have that free time, I am retired after all, maybe semi-retired, but I still have irons in the fire, well one for sure. Here’s the thing though, we need to permit ourselves to do nothing. Yesterday I had good intentions to be productive.  I was going to borrow my cousin’s whipper snipper thingy, get rid of some weeds around the perimeter of my lake lot, and then maybe clean out the firepit. I also know that these are things that can wait, okay so they have been waiting.. well it’s been longer than a week now.. hmmm ah well, it is not high on my to-do list.

I want to build an outdoor wooden shower enclosure, but that may have to wait until I get a man. I can’t hammer in a nail to save my life, but screws.. okay I’ll leave that one alone, see some things you need a man for. For the shower thingy, I may have to borrow someone else’s man, I don’t have any knocking down my door at present. I refuse to go back into the bar scene and match.com is not looking good either, my money is safe from them.. for the time being anyway. I am learning to do some man-stuff myself and it is pretty exhilarating.

Who knew that riding around on a lawnmower could be so much fun? Especially when it does wheelies. I look out over that newly mowed piece of lawn and I feel proud and want to have a beer, and I don’t even drink beer. I want to go and mow everyone’s grass, sick huh? (see my post-www.my-thirdlife.com/lawnmowers and life jackets)

Okay, now where was I? Oh right, the perfect day. Yesterday was one of those days and I had a nap at noon. Yep.. my regular nap time is 3:00 pm but fate intervened and said, ah.. I feel like a nap. I was reading a good book and that seems to happen a lot lately when I read a book.

I consciously said to myself, in my head, of course, I’m not talking out loud yet..  I don’t have to do anything today, and I didn’t.

I laid out on my deck chair, the zero gravity one, aren’t they fantastic, and read my book. It got a bit breezy so I wandered inside, laid down on the comfy couch inside my sunporch, book in hand, and had that nap. I woke up and then made something to eat. I decided to have a shower in my newly installed outdoor shower that doesn’t have an enclosure yet. It is pretty secluded in my part of the lake

What could be better than having a shower in the great outdoors, no enclosure to block out the fantastic view of the trees and the grass and the neighbor’s cat.. now where did he come from? I liken it to skinny dipping in the lake, what a great feeling!  Exhilarating.

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July 16th 2014