skeleton567 (3/26/2015)
Well, for you guys planning your retirement, I have one piece of advice. You need to plan on the ongoing expense of a bottle of your favorite wine daily with your sweetheart. We call ours 'merlot time' which starts any time after about 2:00 pm, either on our front porch or on the deck at our cabin. It's very civilized, we never worry about efficiency, and red wine is even good for your heart....in more ways than one. Cheers!
Planning already done and mostly carried out (the missing bit is my planned few weeks each summer on contract in Brussels - it somehow didn't happen - but it also somehow doesn't matter). Currently Ann and I tend to work on a bottle each a day, rather than a bottle between us, but it's slowly reducing and I expect that by the time we both hit 75 (in 2019) we'll be down to a bottle a day - really two bottles every two days, since she drinks mostly white Navarre and I drink mostly red Rioja, and there won't be many days when we can get both out of one bottle.
Tom