Well it finally happened, Bonnie and I got the Deed and the keys to our new property in Clearwater, Fl. We paid cash. It took two trips down to Clearwater and Breaking one of our CD's which we have in the Credit Union. I am relieved.
The next step we have is to go down to Florida and stay for 2 weeks, setting up the Condo. We are buying new bedding and a new sleep sofa---then hit the consignment shops. We have a budget of $5,000.00 to furnish the place.
I think we'll like the place in the winter when it will be in the 70's all day and the Gulf of Mexico will beckon to us. I plan on working on the perfect tan and bringing it North near the end of March when we become "snowbirds" and return to Greenbelt.
I feel safe about leaving the condo for 6 months with the things left in our apartment. It is a gated community. It has security guards driving around all the time, but especially at night.
I'll miss the kids andd theeee grand children. I will have to see them a lot We are very lucky people.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
An approaching move
Bon and I are moving to Florida for the winters beginning with January 2010. We have signed a contract to purchase a Condo in a retirement community called On Top of the World. It is a 1 bedroom one bath with an additional room that could be used as a second Bedroom. There are many amenities including:
A fitness room at least as good as the one at Cardiac Rehab at the Hospital. I visited it and it was in use by a goodly number of people who seemed to be supportive of one another. It is important to me to have persons there to talk there. One of the things I don't like about Greenbelts Fitness Center is that it is so quite with persons engaged soley on the machines and not interacting. I don't really enjoy exercise so I need things to be as supportive as possible;
A billiards room. I love billiards and have missed playing over the years of my adulthood. It will be used;
Three Swimming rooms, a sauna, a large whirlpool and things like that. ;
A draw is free 18 hole Golf and a 9 hole par 3 golf course. I don''t play golf, but may get a cheap set of clubs so that I can play and have a nice walk like Mr Bagnall used to do years ago. I remember him fondly telling me that it was a nice way to get a good walk in each day or every other day. I don't know whether or not I will do this or not. It is something completely new. I haven't played since that PE course when I was a Freshman at UMD. I can't think of many things that make me walk so much as golf. It is having a purpose to do a task that is more than walking for walking's sake.
I still am finding it difficult to lose weight. It seems that I must be addicted to eating. I need to lose weight and it is so slow. I work out so it must be an over abundance of calories. I dislike my body's shape and don't like to be seen without clothes--as in a bathing suit. I hope that living in anarea that is open, sunny warm and with little rain (The Sunshine State.) will prove beneficial for my over all health.
Well, that's about it for this evening. Fare thee well.
A fitness room at least as good as the one at Cardiac Rehab at the Hospital. I visited it and it was in use by a goodly number of people who seemed to be supportive of one another. It is important to me to have persons there to talk there. One of the things I don't like about Greenbelts Fitness Center is that it is so quite with persons engaged soley on the machines and not interacting. I don't really enjoy exercise so I need things to be as supportive as possible;
A billiards room. I love billiards and have missed playing over the years of my adulthood. It will be used;
Three Swimming rooms, a sauna, a large whirlpool and things like that. ;
A draw is free 18 hole Golf and a 9 hole par 3 golf course. I don''t play golf, but may get a cheap set of clubs so that I can play and have a nice walk like Mr Bagnall used to do years ago. I remember him fondly telling me that it was a nice way to get a good walk in each day or every other day. I don't know whether or not I will do this or not. It is something completely new. I haven't played since that PE course when I was a Freshman at UMD. I can't think of many things that make me walk so much as golf. It is having a purpose to do a task that is more than walking for walking's sake.
I still am finding it difficult to lose weight. It seems that I must be addicted to eating. I need to lose weight and it is so slow. I work out so it must be an over abundance of calories. I dislike my body's shape and don't like to be seen without clothes--as in a bathing suit. I hope that living in anarea that is open, sunny warm and with little rain (The Sunshine State.) will prove beneficial for my over all health.
Well, that's about it for this evening. Fare thee well.
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