Back in the Saddle

 For the last week, my wife and I have been moving from one house to another in an effort to downsize our living lifestyles.  My wife is 70 and I am 75 and we easily convinced ourselves that we were finally too old to move.

My wife has a lower back bulging disk and I have 5 lower back fused disks, so we were handicapped from the getgo.  We hired movers to transport the heavy stuff but we moved all the other stuff ourselves.

The house we found was in our same community so it was just on the next street over which helped but we still had to pack and move, bend over and lift.

We stained our deck and made a few other home improvements which many people told us not to do...  instead, wait for the buyers to raise what had to be done, then lower the sale price of the house. However, we were told to figure how much those renovations would cost, then increase the sale price to cover the potential dropping of the price.

We did not like that recommendation so we did the renovations ourselves in the heat and humidity.

Anyway, we are moved and our house goes no the market today.  We still have to put things away and organize in our new house but we can move a little slower with that task.  Consequently, I will again return to my blog and will work to give it a more robust appearance.  

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your patience.