Well we are settled into our new retirement home, in beautiful Williamsburg, VA. We have a couple of tasks still outstanding, but one major pair will be completed before the weekend. A new bed with the ability for each sleeper to have their mattress positions in the most comfortable arrangement that suits their sleep habits and a dining table with matching chairs will be arriving tomorrow, Friday, January 31st.
But today, we will have two men from a company called College Hunks coming to do some rearranging for us in preparation for the arrival of the new bed. They will be moving a bed and chest of drawers from one of the upstairs bedrooms to the smaller of the two, and then moving our bed from the master bedroom on the first floor to the larger of the upstairs bedrooms. This is in preparation for the delivery of the new numbers bed arriving tomorrow.
We will also ask these young men to move out large SONY tv from the ground floor up to Char’s office area on the second floor. We were having some problems with connectivity for our television networks (we stream for a couple of services) and would up buying another large tv for the Great Room. Since our house is wired for whole house wireless internet connectivity, Char will have the ability of using the older TV upstairs in her loft office to catch news and other items of interest.
So this week, we will have been able to conclude a couple more tasks on our settling in checklist. Starting to get to the end!
Big Red, our new GMC Terrain SUV has been able to easily traverse the streets during our recent snow storms (not much of a storm, but we did get accumulations). Glad we paid the extra for the All Wheel Drive version.
Short Note: I just read an article about several of the right winger GOP Attorneys General attempting to force the new Trump assault on hiring practices for companies, this instance, on COSTCO. Trump and his political hack minions are attempting to reverse legislation established under the previous congress’ for diversity, equality, inclusion in our nation. This is actually an attempt by Trump and company to remove the ability of companies to act in their own interest regarding staffing their company facilities. In this instance, however, turned out the CEO and Board of COSTCO basically told Trump and his wrecking crew to go pound sand. Good for them and renews my faith in that business. We have been members of COSTCO for several Decades and enjoy shopping for necessities (of course we usually buy things in addition to what we started looking for) there.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least that the bigoted South African Musk is behind this blatant attempt to force the companies to bend to the will of the Fuhrer Trump and his burgeoning gang of ChristoFascist/Fascist authoritarian enablers that make up the once decent political party of Republicans.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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