Holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas Thanksgiving came and went for us, obliterated by work. We did get a turkey and the fixin’s, but the turkey was still frozen on Thanksgiving so we ended up cooking our T-Day meal a full week later. Then of course Christmas slid right in on the heels of more work, work, …
Birthdays Though it’s going on six months ago I can’t fail to mention my birthday in early September. We started the day with a great bike ride and stopped by Old School on the way home. Check out “Green Flashes and more riding stories” to hear about our Old School adventure. We spent the late …
We’ve gotten so caught up in our downsizing projects that it’s been difficult to remember how far we’ve come, and we’ve been so busy for so long that it’s been easy to lose perspective. Though it frequently seems as though our non-stop downsizing is sucking the life out of us (yes, it’s been brutal lately), …
Views offshore After so many years of riding the coastline we’re pretty used to the great views, but that’s not to say we ever tire of them. The colors are always changing, the air is always different, and each day is a guessing game as to what we’ll see. One early morning we saw a …
In the midst of the chaos and emotion of downsizing, our riding keeps us on an even keel, giving us time out of the house, providing beautiful sights and scenes, and imparting a wonderful sense of well-being from all the exercise. For most of the year we’d been riding every other day, doing thirty-five miles, …
We’ve kept up steadily with finishing all our digitizing projects, and have been reluctantly sucked into a few technology update projects during the last few months as well. Our massive photo-scanning project is finally finished with thousands of pictures now in digital format and carefully filed in directories. The only remaining desire we have is …
Digitizing revisited and keeping up on technology Read More »
If we thought making the decision to sell our Czech Republic furniture was emotional, it didn’t hold a candle to the grief in finding new homes for our beloved cats. We’ve loved those cats ever since we carefully and thoughtfully picked them from a litter of kittens at our neighbor’s house back in May 2002. …
One thing we can say unequivocally, dismantling our lives has been a process, and not a quick and easy one. At the beginning, some things were painful to sell or give away, but we quickly realized the necessity or wisdom of doing it. Some things we just didn’t care so much about. Some things we …
One of the most emotional decisions of our entire downsizing project has been putting our Czech Republic furniture up for sale. Back in 1998 we bought eight or nine very old pieces of furniture when we lived in our castle down near the Austrian border. We’d gone from five years of living in eight-hundred-square-foot apartments …
Czech Republic antique furniture – ideas anyone? Read More »
Once we’ve successfully sold our items and done our little high-five-happy-dance, there’s still the shipping with our eBay and CrazyGuy postings. We have to find the right box and packing materials. It’s got to be sturdy, but it has to be as light and small as possible, so we spend a fair amount of time …
