Visit to Jim and Bob at Senior Living

Our friends Jim and Bob this morning

Bill and I visited our friends Bob at Jim at their new home at a senior living facility this morning.  We just got back.

My Bill cheering up Jim

Both Bob and Jim were a bit down when we visited.  But anyone who knows me and Bill knows that we leave you laughing.  We were successful, we left Bob and Jim with big smiles on their faces.

Bob, Jim (smiling) and me at their senior living apartment this morning

This senior living facility is interesting.  It's an option I never considered before but am now giving serious consideration.  Of course I am no where near moving into a senior living facility at this time of my life.  But say if I'm still living ten or fifteen years from now it may very well be an option, for either Bill or I.  

Bob and Jim - together 29 years

As long as Bill and I are alive we're going to live together in our home.  However, should one of us die before the other and continue to live on into advanced old age, one of these senior living facilities makes sense.  

Me (left) - always the clown

I'm 71 years old now.  Say I live to be 85 or 90 years old.  I figure by that time most if not all of my friends are gone.  One of the big pluses about living in a senior living facility is that you're not lonely.  There are a LOT of other fellow seniors living there, albeit most of them women.  I like women, just not in a sexual way. As a matter of fact I wouldn't want to live in a senior living facility with a lot of lecherous old gay men.  Can you imagine? I can't.  

All my life I've always planned for contingencies; what I would do at various stages of my life.  The one stage that I didn't have firm plans was if I reached an advanced age and was by myself.  I think I found the answer.  Of course I would prefer to live by myself but I have to be realistic.  

What do you think?

Bob and Jim at the door to their apartment - leave them smiling