Perfect outcome

Having been recently widowed and my children all grown up and out on their own. I decided time for a change, I 49 would travel around till I found the place that sung to me. Gave my house to my youngest plus a little extra cash, my oldest got the equal just in cash, already had his own house. I headed off still had plenty of cash left and could do quite a bit of different work to make extra if I needed too. I've done electrical, plumbing and carpentry work had renovated my house over the years. So, making extra cash wouldn't be hard. After some time travelling, I came to a small town which had seen better days. I was eating in the local diner come gas station only business still operating in the town. When a local woman 37 entered and asked the owners did, they know anybody who could do plumbing. No, came the reply, I told her I've done plumbing asked what her problem was. Once I knew I thought I could handle it and said I would have a look. I followed her to her home on the outside of the town; it was the biggest house in the area. But she like the rest of the local was getting by on meager incomes. Her drainage was backed up and checking the area I found the cause an old tree had fallen over. One of its old branches had speared the ground straight thru where the drainage pipe went thru. First, I had to remove the tree and then the branch speared into the ground. She had a chainsaw it took some work getting it going but it cut up the tree and top off the speared branch. The rest of the branch was deep into the ground. It was getting late I said I would go into town find somewhere to stay and come back in the morning and finish the job. She told there wasn't any rooms rented out in the town, but I could stay in the old bunkhouse, and she would cook my meals for me. So, I started digging to get below the broken pipe to cut off the branch below the pipe so I could repair the pipe. But I would need new pipe to fix the pipe, The closest hardware was 35minutes drive away in the next town to late in the day to go and get it then. But I did a quick temporary fix, placing sheet of tin under it wrapping around the pipe fixing in place with wire. It would still leak but most of the water would go down the pipe like it should. We had dinner together and talked, I went to the bunk house and in the morning, we drove to the hardware. I got what I needed and was still fixing the pipe when some local turned up and asked could I do some plumbing work for them as well. I said I could and during the conversation I said I could electrical and carpentry as well. You would think I was sent by GOD by their reaction, but as there wasn't anywhere locally, I could stay. I would've move on; there were vacant buildings all needing some work just to be livable. The bunk house was the best option, and the woman knew that and offered me it to me so her neighbors could get their work done. With the pipe fixed hole filled in, I went and seen what the other work required. I had a pickup for my travelling, and it became my work truck. After a week, I'd barely scratched the surface of the work they wanted me to do. I'm fairly well off financially and only charge for materials plus twenty dollars, sometime just the twenty dollars as I got what was needed from building that were already falling down. All my lunches were provided by who I was working for and dinner by the woman where I was staying. Turned out I was the youngest man in the area and the only available one. The woman I'd first helped was the only available young woman in the area. All others had moved away. So, we got closer and closer and then started sleeping together, I was still fixing things in and around her house as well as other local homes. After two weeks I was living in her house with her, decided I wanted to stay as the place had been singing to me. But I first asked my children would they mind me remarrying, they told me to marry. So, I purposed and we married I quickly got her pregnant and bought up some of the empty houses renovated them into livable again sold them to people looking for a quiet place to retire too. With more people living in the area, shops started to open back up. Now twenty years later and 3 extra children. I'm contented in my new life the town has recovered, and the school reopened in 2022. As more people revived the town, with year adding extra work opportunities and younger people attracted by affordable houses and available work came also. My wife revived her horse (saddle) breeding business on a small scale since we had married kept it small because she had children to raise. I'm retired now, but still maintain the family, home.