Best Laid Plans

The first part of what we are getting done around the home starts next week.  We are converting our former garage into a granny flat.  An individual or couple will be able to stay there totally sperate from Merril and I.
I guess it is just a fact of life that as one grows older less space is sought and what is needed is reassessed.  Often the conclusion is that less is required.
It is interesting to me that worlds become smaller.  There is a natural resistance to such a thing, but that either ends in acceptance or bitterness.  I know from what I experience I do not like growing older and often my body lets me know that what I once did is now out of reach.  Often I find that out by trying what was once common place, and paying an unexpected consequence for it.
So what Merril and I are attempting is to set ourselves up for the inevitable.  There are two things at work.  We want to get the place nice for us and downsize now while we can.  We also want to set the place up for others who are experiencing the same.  Our aim is to have a place ready.  In the meantime, we are happy to put family and friends and visitors up for short stays.
Having said that we know that we do not know what the future holds.  We feel the best we can do is go by advice we trust and look around at trends.  Right now the trends do not appear to be good.  There seems to be a great promotion of rescue coming from certain quarters, yet what is often promoted is untried.  It also seems to me the scale of things that happen that require immediate finance is growing to such an extent that there will be nothing left for other worthy causes.
That is why now, as best we can, we set up for a possible day when hand outs are not forth coming, and what we have is self-generated - and the haves assist the have nots.
Anyway that is what we are doing on one level.  On another more obvious level we are getting a granny flat.  We are very much looking for to the time we have it, rather than are looking forward to having it.