I see Bren tried to confuse some of us

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I see Bren tried to confuse some of us
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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 6:37am
"younger" bugs by referring to yesterday a.m. as Friday. See Bren, it didn't work, 'cause I didn't even notice the day you had typed in!!! lololol

Sitting here at the computer with the window open and a male cardinal flew by the window. They are building a nest in our weeping cherry tree. The first cardinal nest that close to the house since we moved here 19 years ago. Another phase of life passing.

I wasn't going to say anything on the Board, but you know me. Can't keep my mouth closed. We DID sell the house and have to be out by the end of June. The condo we have purchased won't be available until the end of July. Can you imagine trying to find an economical place to live for a month in a tourist area? We will probably end up in some motel with cars up on blocks!

I am so happy for the couple who is buying our home. They have 3 children, and they returned 3 times to look the place over. They even know where they are going to put a fence to protect those kiddies. The last time they came to the house, the mom told the father, referring to the 2 children in the car, "they are NOT coming in here". I thought it was kind of cute, because once they move here, they WILL be in the house running on the light carpet and running their hands on the pale walls.

We left a "home" where our daughters raised, 19 years ago to move here. Moving to this county was a requirement of DH's employoment as Chief of Detectives. Our daughters never thought of this place as their home, which is one of the reasons I won't feel bad leaving. We are returning to the county where they grew up and 2 minutes away from the DD I babysit for.

So sorry for all of this talking, but I am very happy. The house was actually sold within 3 days of being put on the market. Guess we did a decent job in preparing it for viewing.

I love where we are moving to and we will be getting all new furniture. What we now own will be sold by ads in the newspaper.

Oh another thing. WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED 44 YEARS TODAY. DH says it has been 44 years of "slavery", I tell him it has been 44 years of "sheer misery".. We will probably argue about it over a nice dinner. lol


Lanie

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 6:10pm
44 years, good for you. Do you think you will keep him?

And good for you on selling the house. Best of luck

finding a place to stay before you can move into your new

home.

Fran

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 9:24pm
Happy Anniversary you ol' lovebirds you..LOL!! Happy for you that your house sold so fast and you've found just the right condo to move to. New furniture and everything?!! Ouuuu..that will be so much fun putting together!! Good for you!!

Hope you're enjoying a romantic?? dinner at your favorite place!!...Congrats, Susie

Hugs,

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 10:26pm
Kt, thank you so much. That is a real cute site. Thanks again.

Lanie

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 10:28pm
Thank you KaCee. We had a nice time, and we even laughed about being together 44 years and getting ready to enter an "adult" community. Been together a long time.

Lanie

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 10:30pm
Fran, at this stage, we have no choice but to keep each other!! At least now that the house is sold, we can laugh together more. We sure were under a lot of tension there for awhile.

Thanks a lot.

Lanie

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Fri, 05-09-2003 - 10:32pm
Susie, we really had a nice evening. After dinner, we drove past the place where we are moving to and "still" like it. lol

Good night all around. Thanks for your wishes.

Lanie

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Sat, 05-10-2003 - 12:12am
Happy Anniversary !!!!!!

Happy New House!!!!!!!!!!

Now what you need is storage and a camper to live in till you can move to your new place.

You are lucky to be able to have your windows open. It has been warm enough around here to go out without a jacket but not to have the windows open. As a matter of fact I have the furnace on again....I know I will be complaining about the heat soon but I wanted to have 1 month with no big gas bill and light bill before the A/C comes on...lol...

DH had to quick cut down the grass when we got home with all that rain....I told him it wasn't just tall it was like waves of grain....he didn't think that was funny...lol....Janet
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Sat, 05-10-2003 - 5:56am
OK so here's where the news is...

Again congratuations on the condo and also on being married for 44 years..Happy Anniversary to you both.

Hugs Val

                                      

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Sat, 05-10-2003 - 10:42pm
Lanie- Happy Anniversary. Congratulations on the sale of your house. They sound like a lovely couple. It feels good to leave one's home to nice people. You sound very excited and joyful with this new beginning.

Hug

Hope

Hug Hope

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