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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s The Law

Here is one other thing I learned, or rather, relearned, while building a house with my son Dan and D-i-L Anna. If a hose or cord can get tangled or caught, it will. It’s the natural law of physics you never learned in college and it is beyond annoying. Whether a vacuum cleaner hose or…

Never Enough Sharp Pencils

We went back. Dan had one more week of vacation time so after a few days at home we drove back to PA to continue work on their house construction, now 5 weeks in. Christina and her beau, Conor, visited over the Labor Day weekend and came to help. Murphy, however, was the most useful,…

A Banker, an Engineer, and a Welder Walk into a House…

Last week, the third week of construction on our son’s and daughter-in-law’s house, ended well despite my momentary panic attack.  Thanks to all of you, my blog readers (now totalling in the double digits!!!) for your positivity and support and cheering.  Seeing our progress from other’s perspectives helped a lot to pull me out out…

Hard work not hard worrying

Gosh, I wish I could turn off my worry gene. This third week I hit a real low in my enthusiasm for this project. One measure of our progress is watching the piles of lumber disappear as they become walls and floors. Like rolling a giant boulder uphill or washing dishes or cleaning floors, using…