Category: Retirement
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A Look Back and A Peek Forward
Reading Time: 5 minutesTomorrow, July 15, is the 5-year anniversary of the day we arrived in Florida. Lots and lots (and lots) happened in the last 5 years. My life today doesn’t resemble anything I imagined it would when we were driving from Wisconsin to a VRBO condo in Englewood, excited about new beginnings and… Read more
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Adventure Awaits
Reading Time: 5 minutesDo you ever look back on seemingly random and minor things in your life that somehow all line up and create, perhaps even far into the future, something significant and meaningful? It feels like so many little (some really little, like the stickers I’m about to tell you about) things that happened… Read more
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Alone
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Randy and I were still watching TV, we got hooked on a reality show for a short time called Alone. In it, so-called survivalists are dropped into some remote wilderness with nothing but a backpack (which contains a video camera, of course). Whoever lasts the longest without calling to be picked… Read more
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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