We've Got time

Wednesday May 20th.

Before I get out of bed every day I think about the current day and date.  Without this little mental exercise I lost track of both the date and day.  Loosing the day and date I felt adrift in a timeless world and it wasn’t comfortable.
I grew up in a family where time was important.  We lived our lives by a schedule.  Monday was wash day.  Tuesday was iron day.  Saturday was home project day – like lawn mowing and garage cleaning.  Sunday was church day.  Repeat.

During our Wisconsin “Stay-at-Home Order” a new phase has leaked into my lexicon – “We’ve got time.”  We have been exploring county parks for a little exercise and often the access to our county parks is less than straight forward so I suggest we drive around to find it because “we’ve got time.”

Our regular walks and hikes have extended to 60 minutes because “we have time”.  Plotting our once a week forage to the grocery store is like planning the Normandy invasion.  The exact day and time must be carefully planned to minimize contact with other old codger shoppers.  Our local Costco has an intricate serpentine route outside the store where you pick up cart.  The store opens at 8:00 am for we seniors but it’s often too cold to be standing in line.  We could get sick just from standing out in the Wisconsin freezing mornings.  But “we’ve got time”.  I clocked our visit to Costco – about 55 minutes – a new world record.  Don’t know why I bothered to time the excursion because “we’ve got time.”

All in all I’m finding that I like living in a “we’re got time” world.  It can be relaxing and puts activities in perspective.  I think when all this is over and in our collective rear view mirror I’ll still live life as “we’ve got time”.
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Do you still have time?