Notes - work-a-day / moving on?

         Last night you had pizza, wings and salad for dinner. Kim and Paul were taking care of a friends three young children for supper and afterwards. Everybody had a good time and by nine-thirty the friends had returned and taken their tired children home. Paul spent some time helping you and Carol streamline your new phones and made sure the wallet app up and running. Also, during the day the frame and roof of their new porch had a roof. Today, the men framed the connecting open deck to the side of the roofed (and later screened in porch). They also put a waterproof jacket over the frame of the deck on which to fit the pressurized (artificial wood planks) so the area beneath the deck can later be a patio, non-screened but with a ceiling fan, etc. for open air relaxation – tonight was a beautiful sunset which they can from the top deck, porch, as well as the future patio area below. The patio area has a sliding door between two windows. It will not be completed for a few years. The next project is finishing the basement, some of which Paul will do himself. – It is an exciting time in their lives – completing their home in several year stages. – Amorella

         2008 hours. It is exciting for them and us too. We were working on the same sort of things in our mid-thirties also. Today, after a morning trip to Schneider’s for bakery goods for tomorrow Kim suggested looking at another new housing development for those fifty-five and older. You were surprised to see a condo model you both like, a one floor single house with about 2000 square feet area, two bedrooms, two baths, a good sized kitchen, dining room, living room, office and storage room with a completely private outside area about twenty by 14 feet. Also, it has ten-foot ceilings and a two and a half car garage for added storage. We are interested but subdued until we get more facts, etc. We do really like the home plan though. It is very well thought out for senior citizens wants and needs. It reminds me of our Avalon in terms of wants and needs. Get the best you can afford within budget and live well within the adjustment. For us this would mean selling our house and taking money out to pay for the rest so we continue to have no debt. The location is north of Westerville off Maxtown Road about two miles from North State Street – still with a Westerville street address but not in the city (with its high taxes) itself (about four miles from old Uptown Westerville and Otterbein University).

         Good thoughts for a forty-eighth wedding anniversary. “Moving on” is what people do in life (and death in here). This is what you are really considering. It’s going to happen, boy, one way or another whether you stay in Mason or move back to your hometown and college area. - Amorella

         2028 hours. I am thankful I lived long enough to even make the consideration. We like to be in charge of our lives as much as possible. We will obviously be thinking – is it time to move back home? I don’t know. We will be buried here so we will come home eventually.

         Post. – Amorella

         2031 hours. Another day of writing when I didn’t think I had anything important to say ( or to consider). Such is life. Carol and Kim are in the kitchen, working on dinner for tomorrow – sounds like they are having a lot of shared fun in the process. How very nice that they get along so well, how very fortunate.