In 2018, our house sold before we put it on the market (word had got around). That prompted a desperate urge to find a new place. There was absolutely nothing we liked in the nearby area we wanted. So I scouted rentals, hotels, etc., and ways to store the post-downsizing furniture and belongings.
It was quite a pressured time! But one day I spotted a sign, we turned, found a model home we loved, and shook hands on it lovely little place.
When we downsized in 2018, I did 90% of the work, emptying an 11-room farmhouse with two attics and a 2-story barn. My husband could not get started emptying his study… three weeks after we moved, the new owner arrived at our new home in a truck jammed with boxes, having packed up my husband’s study.
Last fall, very tired of seeing a much-needed closet full of them, I managed to get them all down and said, “Let’s go through one at a time!” Somehow, he never has time to do this or to put them back (plenty of time for NYT crosswords in ink, though, LOL). I’m so tempted to empty them myself but love him too much to try.
I had to make two trips to the dermatologist to have a spot removed from my face. The first time, they didn’t get it all—the biopsy showed some left around the edge. Now I sport a dark pink circle on my really pale skin—but it’s worth it!
Guess gardening did that, plus sunbathing with Bain de Soleil in the 1960s (couldn’t do that much, since I burned easily). Lucky I made it this far without major problems.
In 2018, our house sold before we put it on the market (word had got around). That prompted a desperate urge to find a new place. There was absolutely nothing we liked in the nearby area we wanted. So I scouted rentals, hotels, etc., and ways to store the post-downsizing furniture and belongings.
It was quite a pressured time! But one day I spotted a sign, we turned, found a model home we loved, and shook hands on it lovely little place.