2022 nears to a close so I will update you on the housebuilding project for Dan and Anna. THEY ARE IN AND LIVING IN THE HOUSE! Yay! They moved in shortly before Thanksgiving with an approved Certificate of Occupancy after a few months of delay. A recall on the electric panel boxes that had been… Continue reading House and Now, Home
Maine Part II
Our return trip from Bar Harbor, ME took us back down Rt. 1, aka the Cannabis Corridor (seriously, more cannabis shops per mile than anywhere ever). Our first stop was Ft. Knox in Prospect, ME. This was a spontaneous right hand turn off Rt. 1 just after crossing the beautiful Penobscot Narrows Bridge. The fort… Continue reading Maine Part II
Enter Another Dimension: Bar Harbor
Our first evening in Bar Harbor, ME, sitting in a brewery, we watched as one retired couple after another paraded past. Christina, who was with us, identified the uniform: sneakers, jeans, athleisure shirt, rainjacket. I looked down. Eek! That’s me!!! Yes, it seems ridiculous that we, who live in paradise in the Adirondacks, should need… Continue reading Enter Another Dimension: Bar Harbor
Second Time’s a Charm
Oops! Lost an entire blog having failed to upload. Here’s a newer, hopefully better, blog: Allow me to recount the schedule of a ‘typical’ weekend of work building a house with our son Dan and daughter-in-law Anna in Pennsylvania. Some of the details may be out of order since I am rewriting this 2 weeks… Continue reading Second Time’s a Charm
A ‘Quick’ Building Update
You might think we’ve been sitting on our hands waiting for this long, erratic spring to settle down but be assured we’ve been keeping busy NOT twiddling our thumbs. With our February travels seemingly long behind us, allow me to update you on the house building progress. We’ve made a few trips to PA in… Continue reading A ‘Quick’ Building Update
Let’s go for a drive. A very, very long drive.
After 10 sunny days in the FL Keys we began our journey home. First stop: Hutchinson Island near Jensen Beach on FL’s east coast/intracoastal waterway. Greg drove the 4 hours (217 miles) up Rt. 1 from the middle Keys past the Everglades and Miami to this manicured snowbird haven. We again met our neighbors Bev… Continue reading Let’s go for a drive. A very, very long drive.
Get There Fast and Then Take It Slow.
Like others we’ve cancelled trips throughout these past Covid wasteland YEARS. I’ve observed others travelling, ‘threading the needle’ between Covid surges and Level IV designations and wondering “have we been too cautious or paranoid despite being fully vaccinated, boostered, and masked?” Our Patagonia trip has now been postponed into a 4th year. Greg was still… Continue reading Get There Fast and Then Take It Slow.
Excitement!
Exciting news! January is over and hopefully the brutal cold we had is gone with it. There were too many days of 0 deg F for the high but with the bad comes the good: generally speaking those days came with brilliant blue skies with no wind, awesome sunsets, and amazingly clear, starry nights. Greg… Continue reading Excitement!
2022, What’s New?
New year, new blog entry! 2022 looks to be another year, that’s all I can predict. Hopefully, it will be amazing and as productive as 2021 has been. Looking back we got a lot accomplished. Not a lot has happened in the way of travel except jaunts to Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Boston, NYC, Westchester, and… Continue reading 2022, What’s New?
Dried In!
In case I haven’t mentioned this before, it’s great being retired. Some people relax and do puzzles or read books, travel, spend time with family, and generally take it easier than when they worked for pay. We’ve been doing all that but then we amped up our activity this year. We are about 2 1/2… Continue reading Dried In!
My new reality 