Testing

We are in the north land testing out our new internet service. I want to see how labor intensive of a process it will be to blog with this new service so here we go. The pictures are random ones as I am trying to see how long it takes to upload them as well.

We have sold our main home. It was not listed but a friend of a friend is going to buy it. The deal is not yet done, we are not sure when she will be moving and when we will be booted out, but we will make it work. It may be that she will own it prior to David retiring and at that time we will have to do some juggling.....However, we would be not so smart if we were to loose a buyer so.....

And Renee loves the house. She appreciates the wood and architectural detail, likes the decor AND she wants to keep the birds and feeders!

David and I put a lot of work into the house and we both have always been pleased and proud of how it turned out. When we initially talked of retirement (years back) I then thought...no no no I don't want to sell this house that we both love and have put so much work into.

But life changes, it shifts and evolves. We are now both very anxious to move to the north land, the new home that we put lots of love into refurbishing, adding on to and making it ours. My fondest memory is shingling our little slice of heaven while going through chemo (and yes it is a fond memory...it helped me live). It was 90 some degrees with 90 some percent humidity. I was bald, weak and very cognitively challenged due to the drugs that were pumped into my system. I had no business being on a roof much less trying to help poor David shingle. But we got it done. I felt as if I could fall off the roof at any time, was sweating bullets and for god's sake I could not remember which way to lay those shingles for the life of me. I think it was that project that pointed out to both David and I that I had lost some cognitive skills. Simple things like how to saw a board or how to correctly lay a shingle (tasks I had done with David numerous times) were difficult for me. It may have been difficult for me but poor David...I am sure he wondered if his wife was always going to be a mess (and I am...tee hee) along with, Oh the hell with the mess at least I have her! We laugh about that time often...a fond memory indeed.

Things just seem to have fallen into place, a buyer for our house that appreciates what we did with it, cancer free, early retirement (we hope), a little slice of heaven to move to, wonderful friends and family, grand kids and a spouse who is my best friend.

Have I been rambling...why yes I have. I do seem to do it well!

Embrace the 'shifts' in your life.