I’m in the same boat as you age wise, plus the COPD, been a smoker my whole life (well, since I was 11 years old).
Make my own bread (200 pounds each of wheat oat and barley flour), chickens lay more eggs than I can use in any one month, dogs get the surplus. Just drink water and whiskey so I think I will just wait it out and see what happens.
Maybe I should stock up on whiskey..it would come in handy if we get colds.. Have some Bailey’s left over from New Years - I buy one bottle to bring in the New Year and we should finish that off. It’s in the fridge and in the way!
What on earth do you do with so much bread? You could start a “bread” kitchen - have your neighbor make the soup and you’re set.
Do you still smoke? My husband smoked from an early age also. I was aware of every cigarette I smoked but he wasn’t - not even aware he’d just put one out as he lit up another one. In the “old days” we could smoke at our desks but the cigarettes would burn down without being smoked and then we got to the PC “no smoking” in offices so had to go outside. We had our own business so my husband wasn’t under any restrictions as to when or where or how he could smoke!
Long ago days..