Category: Retirement
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If You Want To Make God Laugh….
Reading Time: 4 minutesI wrote a couple of blog posts in January recapping what a momentous but exhausting year 2025 was for me and Randy. I closed the second post with this paragraph: We’re looking forward to another great year. We have a few fun things planned, but none are the extensive adventures we undertook… Read more
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The Wonder of Living in Florida
Reading Time: 6 minutesFive years ago today I would never have imagined it, living here in Florida. Five years ago I’d been retired for about 6 months. Randy and I lived in a big house, on 3.5 acres, with a huge garage and shop we built for Randy less than 3 years earlier. It was… Read more
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House in Disarray…Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe moved to Florida in July 2021. It’s a long story, but we bought this house before we’d ever seen it in person. That’s just the way the real estate market was at that time. Randy told that story here in his blog. We counted ourselves lucky to even have “scored” a… Read more
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Veterans Day
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is Veterans Day, observed this year, as it is every year, on November 11. It’s in vogue in 2025 to thank veterans for their service to our country. It hasn’t always been that way. In my lifetime, the political and cultural mood has been much uglier than it is today. I… Read more
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We’re Back Home
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe rolled into our garage yesterday afternoon, which ended the Road Trip, Phase 2, of the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip. The Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Continues. Our actual anniversary is in December. We’ve been in the car every day for the last week for a minimum of 5… Read more
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The Long, Long, Long State of California
Reading Time: 6 minutesOn Sunday afternoon we crossed into Arizona on Interstate 40. I can’t say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I WON’T say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I have a love/hate relationship with what we used to call, even 40 years ago when we lived there, the… Read more
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A Relaxing Few Days
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past few days we’re back in the Sierra Nevada foothills where, when we lived in the Sacramento area for 12 years (1982-1994), we spent a heck of a lot of time. Our forever friends, Don and Ina live on 10 acres between Grass Valley and Auburn. They have 2 horses,… Read more
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The Main Reason – Round 2
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Sunday, after a 2-week break from “the road” (because of the weeklong cruise and the weeklong stay at our friends Dan & Cindy’s lakefront home in northeastern Washington State) we loaded up the car again and headed south. We’ve driven more than 5,000 miles on this trip so far and I’m… Read more
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The Alaskan Cruise
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis grand adventure is grand indeed, and is, in large part, about checking things off our bucket list. Well, my bucket list, anyway. I write about bucket lists a lot in this blog. It’s because we’re in the fourth quarter of our lives, I suppose. Having the time and money to spend… Read more
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Lose Reception, Gain Perspective
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe were happy to leave Las Vegas behind as we headed north on I-15. Our next stop was Zion National Park. That drive through the Nevada desert is pretty desolate. It was also fairly smoky the day we were there. It isn’t until you cut through the tiny northwest corner of Arizona… Read more