Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[sourland]

Wow, chicki . . . . .just, wow. I can see where it would be very hard, both staying and leaving. Best of luck, I hope you find a new place that makes you so happy, you are eager to leave! (and get a good price for the old one)

Having lived in this home for almost 50 years, I dread the day that we have to leave, but can understand the imminent necessity. If something were to happen to me, the Princess would sell and down size in a heartbeat.

Chicki - I guess that we are never too 'old' for changes. Good luck on all levels.

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: When we were building the greenhouses my husband brought me coffee in bed every morning...so I could be mixing cement by day break.

Then the planting and then the pinching and when poinsettias were over the mums started... I caught on.

I told him yesterday that I have retired, He either needs to replace me or figure something else out.
I have gardens and bees and chickens and things to keep me busy. I think I am looking forward to retirement. I make nothing now, I bet I can make twice that retired.
I will be way more fun to be around. and I can get in my husband's way.

I am really looking forward to being irritating.

HEY, CHICKIESOUP!! how does Florida sound???!!! You can have my job. But he doesn't pay -at all -ever.

 

[Alaskan]

Florida is a bit wacko though... isn't it?

Roaches the size of airplanes, snakes at every corner, alligators eating the dogs.


I dunno..... what about southern Tennessee?

 

[3goodeggs]

...and we have surpassed the population of New York.
I could move.

 

[chickisoup]

Having lived in this home for almost 50 years, I dread the day that we have to leave, but can understand the imminent necessity. If something were to happen to me, the Princess would sell and down size in a heartbeat.

Chicki - I guess that we are never too 'old' for changes. Good luck on all levels.

Thank you Sourland. Just trying to figure out the "how" has already given me a migraine. Can't afford to buy a place until we sell this place. Can't sell this place until we find a new place. Or find a place to store all the years of "stuff" when we sell this place till we close on a new place.

We were living in the city when we bought the land directly from a private party a LOT of years ago for DH's hunting land and eventually had a manufactured (aka pre-fab) house placed on it. They even handled all the necessary sub-contracting. We are clearly going to need a realtor since we have no clue what we need to do to even get the whole thing rolling. I use the "we" term very loosely here. DH announced on our way back from town this afternoon to dig some of the probably needed paperwork out of our safe deposit box that, "since you are the one with all the computer savvy, I leave it up to you to deal with the realtor and do all the research stuff".

Gee, thanks partner.
Ok, does that mean you get to pack all the boxes???

 

[Alaskan]

totally yep...



man= pack and move boxes, break things while moving, remind you that you didn't like the broken stuff anyway

woman = figure how to sell the house, do all of the paperwork, find a new house, do lots more paperwork, threaten to go insane, finish it perfectly every time

 

[pollitos2013]

3goodeggs - you have bees? I love bees - please tell me about your bees!

And chickisoup - you are my northern heroine - but I guess you are a long-suffering one...

I actually love snow (she said hiding under a chair) but it is a lot of extra work with animals!

Alaskan - how are your little chicks?

More pics everyone - please!

 

[chickisoup]

Alaskan!!!
I can't wait to just see him find the walls and floor of HIS garage!!!

The man is a total packrat! I snuck in there once while he was gone for the day and put up shelves and organized everything (and cleared out a bunch of junk). He loved but hasn't let me in there again since!!!

Oh, and the garden cottage he turned into his winter workshop and all those other sheds he has put up to hold his "stuff".

 

[chickisoup]

3goodeggs - you have bees? I love bees - please tell me about your bees!

And chickisoup - you are my northern heroine - but I guess you are a long-suffering one...

I actually love snow (she said hiding under a chair) but it is a lot of extra work with animals!

Alaskan - how are your little chicks?

More pics everyone - please!

Oh, we could never move where there wasn't a White Christmas! We are just looking at going a growing zone or two south and a little closer to civilization. Somewhere snow is measured in inches instead of feet the majority of time and where when the TV weatherman refers to sunny and mild, it might actually be above freezing.
ETA-correction. South and East. Closer to Lake Michigan than Superior. Hoping to find a place (aka hobby farm) on the Door County penninsula or there abouts.

 

[3goodeggs]

Every time I think of selling it all off and moving I take a good hard look at the barn.
Plan diverted.
(I'd take my kayak and leave everything else, but he had 1/2 of the junk before we got married,....and has not used it yet...just saying.)
Maybe you can sell to someone just starting out and throw in all the garage stuff as incentive.

My husband has a compressor off of a WWII merchant ship. It is big, heavy, and has never run...but we have to keep it. I am going to use it as his headstone. The epitaph will read :"I will get this running someday!"
He bought it when he was seventeen. He 'gave' it to our son when he turned 17. So it will get given to every male child when they turn 17 into infinity.
That's a plan.