tomswift46's blog/

It's been a little more than a month since I retired from over 30 years in my career as a librarian/high school librarian and it's been a roller coaster.

We have sold our house in a nightmarish market. We lowered the price 4 times and got enuf out of this house to move to Massachusetts where we found a very nice house in a semi rural town surrounded by the 5 colleges...so there will be sophisticated people, galleries ,restaurants, hiking etc.

I have mixed feelings leaving the NY/NJ area as I get homesick and I am a Native New Yawker.

I can root for the Boston Red Sox even as I continue to root for my NY Mets.

Our son and his gf live within 2 hours from the new house which cuts the distance in half.

People wonder why we moved to a colder area. They imagine getting away from the cold, the snow. We think Florida is crowded, mosquito ridden and basically not our cup of tea.

I don't fly and we have animals so in order to be close to our son Massachusetts made all the sense in the world.

Decluttering Dumping

Fixing Up

call realtor,lawyer

Dumping Dumping

Dumping

Packing

call other realtor,inspector,lawyer

Packing

Packing

Call the Utilities

Packing

More Dumping

Recall the utilities when the closing changes

Confuse the Utilities who shut off TV, Internet and Phone service .

Recall Utilities and explain their error. The technician returns, apologetically, "just doing what they tell me", and reconnects us to the World.

More packing, dumping ,packing

Sleepless nights