Tomorrow

is hubby's last day at work. He told me they usually expect you to take off at noon when you're retiring.
To top it off, there is some sort of function that is going to close a good part of the base for this afternoon, so he will probably be home in time for lunch.

We have a lot of things to do besides pack, so I have no idea how much online time I will have for the next couple of weeks.
I expect I will have some time, but who knows.
Hope you all take care and God bless. ♥

Oh, the pictures I promised you.

See you around!

Two days

until hubby's retirement is official.
I am going to be falling behind with blogs, sorry. Nothing to be done about that, but I'm sure you all understand.

Still have a lot of shredding to do. It's amazing how you forget how many papers you have after 17 years that you don't need.

Got the outside of the house painted and the shutters put back up. We took them down after Hurricane Bertha tore a couple of them off, back in July of 1996. That was our first bad hurricane after moving here in 1994. We stored them in the shed and just never got them back up. With a fresh coat of paint, they really help the house stand out.

The guy painting the house did a great job. He's been really helpful with little things, too, like repairing the one shutter that had been damaged. I'll try to remember to take a picture and share it with you, if I have time.

Now we just need to get the trailer loaded, get the rest of the stuff tossed or put in storage if it's something we're keeping, and get the inside of the house taken care of.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday and a safe, blessed weekend. ♥

Five days

Not that we're counting or stressing or anything...

One week

until hubby's retirement is final.
It's exciting and scary. I know I've said this before, but it's my blog.
We're anxious. I know he wants to leave before the 7th of July, but I just don't see it happening.
For various reasons, we don't have a lot of money and this is going to be an expensive couple of weeks with everything we need to do.

I do have hope, Lord willing, that all will go well.

We have plenty of rice, if nothing else, haha.

I just try to keep my stress levels low and go with the flow. Not much else to do, right?

You all have a blessed weekend!

Starting to feel more definite

The boys have been moving stuff into their apartment all day. Got the electric and water turned on yesterday. Internet gets turned on tomorrow.
It's definitely not the best apartment, but it's good enough for first time on their own, and no worse than the little apartment we had after we were first married.

Not much longer now. The fast moving time has started to slow down. Still half the month to go.

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.
Praying for rain in the places that need it most.

Found a little change in the settings that makes me not dislike the new post editor. :o)

Made some changes

Hope I haven't messed anything up too much.
Happy Tuesday to you all!

We have lived in this house in NC

For almost half of our married life. 17 years. We celebrate 38 years in just under three weeks. 20 days.
What an anniversary present.

Hubby asked if we were going to the farm the first weekend of freedom. I said no, I figured we'd take a week to slowly get everything packed up. Hopefully everything. But maybe not. That is still under debate, haha. We may need a storage unit for a week or two.

And then we'd leave after his last payday. Our anniversary weekend.
Both of us driving a vehicle and pulling a trailer with stuff on it.

Crazy stuff that wakes you up at 3:00 AM.
Hubby woke up, too and neither of us could get back to sleep.

Just wanted to share these:









I've tried and tried to get a slip (branch, cutting, what-have-you) of this:



because my oldest boy gave it to me for Mother's Day many years ago, but the cuttings just don't root. At seven feet this year, I feel it's too large to move, and I wouldn't really want to leave a hole in the yard anyway. I've looked at different things on the internet and it seems they are not easy to propagate by cuttings.

I'm going to miss this bush.

Have a wonderful weekend. ♥

A couple shots from the last trip

It was crazy hectic. Spent most of Monday at the VA clinic because he'd fallen and injured his left hand.
He will not remember that he is not 20 and some things just need to wait for 2 people...

Anyway. I had a lot of stuff to unload. We worked pretty much all day the whole time (2 and a half days?) we were there. (Even though it was supposed to be a week, I keep forgetting driving time is a day and a half, minimum. If we get enough coffee.)

So, here it is. 2 weeks of yard growth.















My posts might get really boring once we are there permanently. ;o)
Hope you are all having a wonderful week so far. ♥

The only IH we'll be able to afford

That's International Harvester, for those who don't like acronyms.
Anyway, the only one we'll be able to afford is this one...



Haha. Hubby got it for his going away luncheon yesterday.
Yes, his office likes to do things early. 3 more Fridays!

He also got these:



So we'll have spare tractors, and a sail boat to catch the big one with. :o)

Haha!!

He also got a great photo of AV-8's (the plane he works with) flying in formation, signed by a bunch of people in the space around the photo. He said it was catered by Friday's 1890 Seafood. I asked him how it was and he said better than Smithfield's. Haha. Not sure if that was good or not. He doesn't like Smithfield's.

Oh well. I'll leave you with this, if I can get it to work. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! ♥

Had a good trip

Took a few pictures. Most of what I took is just for our records. With so much stuff in the house, we wanted to document what was there.
As much as you can with stuff still in boxes, haha.

Gosh it was HOT! I may have said that already. I forget things too easily. ugh.

We got everything done we wanted, so we didn't stay the whole week as rain was getting more and more in the forecast.

We made pretty good time both ways, but had problems with the utility trailer yet again!
This time we blew a tire on the interstate. Big hole right through the belts.
We don't carry a spare.
Fortunately (?) it is a dual axle trailer so it can go with 3 tires. We carry cargo straps.

Little straps for general use.

And big straps for heavy duty stuff. Rated at 10,000 pounds breaking strength.

We ran the end of the strap through the wall of the trailer and hooked it around the axle where the flat tire had been, then over the top of our load and ratcheted it down to level off the axle for the other tire.
Made it home on 3 wheels. Kind of like a 3-legged dog. ;o)

No pictures. Sorry. I was traffic watch in case someone looked like they weren't paying attention or didn't care, while hubby did the ratchet. Got back on the road in about 20-30 minutes. We've done it before.

Did see this neat thing when we hit NC.

My son told me it was probably an M-88 A1 Tracked Recovery Vehicle. He said they used them in Iraq.
He said it was possible it was one of the newer vehicles, but I'm going with his first impression.

Almost have laundry caught up. Have a half dozen boxes packed already for the next trip. I'm hoping I can cram our trailer with everything we have left, but it will be close. May take us 2 more trips.
The next trip won't be until July, after he has officially retired.
Wow.
27 days.

Hope you all have a wonderful, blessed week. ♥

P.S. I'm pretty sure word verification is off for me, but they keep screwing around with it, so if you find it on, please let me know. I'm pretty sure you can email if nothing else. I despise it and may stop replying to those of you who use it. I know it's rude and I'm sorry, but it's worse now than it was before.