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Throw Back Thursday - Goodbye Albatross!!! Seven years ago, I sold my house with no clue what would lay ahead. Grumpy died years before and my Wal-Mart wages could not maintain that house. I remember when we brought the house in 1999. Grumpy was an electrician could no longer do the work because of Cardiac Health issues. I talked him into taking an early retirement, selling the house in California and moving someplace more affordable. Somehow, we ended in West Virginia. He bought an international truck and I followed him cross country in our Aerostar Van. We brought f0ur cats and picked a puppy in the desert. Ironically, my younger liked the adventure of the International Truck while my step- preferred the comfort of the van. We joked about the Steps riding with the Steps. It was January when we arrived in West Virginia and I had never driven in snow before. The furbabies made it across that rainbow bridge. Grumpy died. The b0 became men. It was more house than I needed or could afford. I sold what I could and gave the rest away to FREE CYCLE. While I was in the middle of moving - a friend called and asked me to work at the Women's Transitional House that she founded. It's funny how these "temporary part-time' jobs work out to be something totally different. My plan was to leave the state but it didn't work out quite that way. I had trunks that I purchased at Wal-Mart when I moved into Senior Housing a few towns away. I still have plans to move to Atlanta but I don't know when it will happen. I will have to take items to the thrift show and fill those trunks again.  Abracadabra  |
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Grumpy was a major league packrat while I tend to be the opposite. I had to cover the eyes on his picture as I was clearing the house. Abracadabra
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I've never had any intention of moving from my little spot.... in fact, when my husband died, our big old farmhouse needed so much work done, my oldest son told me that I could not continue to live here. It made me mad, that along with all the other circumstances, and I told him in no uncertain terms that I was still in my right mind and would decide my life for myself! And I did. And I'm still in the same place, just a different house. Joe on the other hand, had lived in the NE and the south, and was planning to move back south. First though, he decided to live a couple years near his sister here, and then we met and all his plans changed. It's good to make plans, but keep an open mind when other options appear. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Well I can say I have lived the longest time in Vancouver. I grew up in Alberta and I lived in Edmonton 13 years and then I moved to Vancouver. I have been out here now coming up 46 years. I don't intend to live anywhere else. I am getting too long in the tooth to move to another Province. I will live where I am as long as I can.
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I never want to move again. We moved three times in total, always in the Dublin area. It's an exhausting task.
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8/12/2021 9:24 pm |
Mrs Joe it is costly to have a lot of money invested in land producing no income. LOL Now is the best time in history to downsize. Being in love with real estate is a mistake. When we are 70 we should be in a small low maintenance home 5 minutes from a hospital emergency facility. LOL With 6 months living expenses in the bank & all else making big income in some way. LOL Now if I would only do that. LOL Well at least when I sleep the hospital emergency is 9 city blocks away. LOL Party On!
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