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I’m guessing, that it was about 10 years ago perhaps even a little bit longer that I suddenly became bored with not doing something, So I collected a whole bunch of photographs that I had put them all together in a little movie put music to it and Walla, I had my first movie. Since then, I made several others and you can always go to youtube.com search for Vitoonfilm , And see some of the other movies that I’ve made. Just to give you a small taste of what they may look like, Here’s one about a visit made to a small town in Washington called Leavenworth. Take a look at it and you can send me an email telling me what you think about it.

I don’t know about anybody else, But going through our house we are loaded with pictures. Could be that at one point of my wife’s life she had a camera automatically attached to her finger. Every time one of our kids did something there was a picture of it, and it was set up into a package of three, One set for my parents, One set for Margot‘s parents and one set for us. Pictures of our kids growing up, places that were visited and just crazy things happening at the time. These pictures alone, tell the story of our life.

Now it has become a full-time job going through these pictures and trying to figure out what to do with them. If I was certain that I could finish it, I would probably put them all together put them to music and develop a 15 hour documentary of my life, Wow, what a stupid idea, at my age, it would probably go as an untold story. Finishing it, will never become reality so, I have decided not to begin it. What I need is a hobby that when it ends, It will leave no one in suspense. 

LIVING ALONE TOGETHER 

sounds stupid? You may think so however this is the life that Margot And I have been living for perhaps the last 12 to 15 Years. We have quite a large home consisting of three levels and about 3500 sq. ft. Up until about two years ago, I had the total daylight basement area designated as my man’s cave. That gave me about 1500 ft.² all for myself. Now that area belongs to our daughter Lisa and her husband where they have redesigned and made it into an apartment which will become their hub while they are in their retirement travel days. That leaves the balance of 2000 ft.² give or take, Available for Margot and I to share, Thus living alone together. We can literally go 8 to 10 hours without bumping into each other, every twist and turn or having to carry on a conversation that eventually bores both of us. I’ve turned one of the four bedrooms into my office, This was previously an area that Margot used as her office when she was working from home. We use our dining room table to work on puzzles, And of course, the family room is to watch TV. Both of these rooms are on Opposite side of the kitchen, this means we can both go to the kitchen make something to eat or just go to the refrigerator without having to have a conversation on what to eat when to eat and where to eat. Since completing puzzles is Basically concentration, we can both work on the same puzzle without necessarily speaking to each other. On the other side of the kitchen since the TV is on, we can both sit in the family room watch TV without the necessary chatting, However, making comments about certain things being discussed on TV has become necessary, small talk is permitted. Now, I don’t want you to get the idea that we never talk. We do talk quite a bit about many different things, Conversation does take place, but not on a basis of a whole day spending talking to each other or feeling that we have to talk to each other, Living alone together, simply means we can enjoy our own space when we want it for as long as we want it, Ideal situation. Having said all this, I do have to admit that there are times I feel a little bit lonely, and I would feel that if something happened to Margaret, I would feel terribly lonely just because I don’t have the possibility of talking to someone. I’m fairly certain that Margot feels the same way. We both get little bits of these pieces now. When I end up going up to bed at 11:15 PM, Margot will End up watching TV for perhaps another hour before coming up to bed. When I get up in the morning two hours before Margot I get a little lonely. Taking everything into consideration, apparently has proven to be quite good for us since we are quickly approaching 60 years together.  I think the reason for that is primarily because we simply do not have the possibility of talking with each other, even if we wanted to. It’s even gotten to the situation where I have thought about asking women in our age group, if they would consider moving in with me, no strings attached. They would have their own bedroom and their own bathroom. It would be companionship. Not officially speaking For Margot, I think she would prefer prefer to just be alone, but always with the possibility to having our kids nearby somewhere, especially the grandkids.

Well, my friends, That’s all I have for you on this posting, The next one will be probably at the time of the 2024 election and I will give you my take on what I think about that. I don’t intend to tell you how to vote or what I think of those that don’t vote the way that I vote, But just little tidbits on how I have come to my decision.

Stay tuned 

Vito