Starting in December the closing date for our short sale became a rapidly moving target. First came the big news that everything was approved and we’d be closing right after Christmas. That was discouraging, as we still needed time to finish, and we hated to be on the streets, so to speak, right during the …
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Our bird watching this year started out slowly, but we more than made up for the late start with the richness of our sightings. Not only do we have the daily viewing exposure of our bike rides, but our living room has a triple sliding glass door which opens out onto a large screened-in porch, …
As if the universe was sending us a pat on the back for learning the lesson from Attila the Hun, our sale of the sideboard, our very last piece, was the exact opposite experience. Though our nerves were still shaky, we had the resolve of steel to make sure this sale went smoothly. The good …
Finally, after many months of effort, we were down to our last two pieces of antique furniture, a wardrobe and a sideboard from our time in the Czech Republic. As luck would have it, they were also the two biggest. The prices we’d set were heartbreakingly low for us, but South Florida is not the …
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You may wonder what getting wisdom teeth extracted has to do with our extended bike trip, but if those wisdom teeth are flaring up into pain frequently, and we’re in difficult physical situations, suddenly getting them removed sounds like the deal of a lifetime. Over the length of our bike trip Chelsea had been consistently …
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, …
