[TednRobin]

Home in Pennsylvania. Put on the Sauerkraut and Pork this morning, using Gracie's recipe. Smells wonderful. TV next week,

[faithfulfrank]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Oh Frank, both of your homes are lovely, LOVELY! I knew you would be one who took excellent care of his property. How hard it must be to think of your leaving your beautiful Northern home for the whole year.

I am having a bit of trouble with that.

Yes Gracie, I understand. But life is in chapters, and one ends, another starts. I designed and built my northern home myself....hopefully we will have a buyer soon after it goes on the market......someone will be getting a nice well built house with many extras.

As retirement gets closer I am eager to start our new Florida life. I have many big projects planned for the Florida house...garage addition, re-hardscape the back yard with new patio, Pergola, etc, new kitchen, etc. I'm also a licensed Home Inspector, so I look forward to starting my new business down there. I don't relax well, always got to stay busy. It will be a bit hard to move away from our grown boys, but between visits, skype, facebook, etc it will be ok.

This new year is exciting for us......I'm hoping 2011 will be the year of transition for us. One of my resolutions is to come to a Chrispers meet-up.....hopefully this April.....!! Right now we are taking down our tree. We always cut our own nice Douglas Fir...I hope we can cut our own real trees down in Florida also....we'll see.

Frank

[graciegirl]

The part about Christmas and snow and the big house with room for all our Christmas traditions is bothering me a lot right now.

You are right about chapters.

I certainly hope you and Mrs. Frank will come and visit us G's.

[skyguy79]

Where am I now? Not where I want to be! However, I'll be there very soon even if it is for a relatively short time!

[faithfulfrank]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

The part about Christmas and snow and the big house with room for all our Christmas traditions is bothering me a lot right now.

You are right about chapters.

I certainly hope you and Mrs. Frank will come and visit us G's.

We would love to.....hopefully this April when we are back down there..
We are big on family and traditions.....but we are looking forward to making more new friends and making new traditions. We have always encouraged our kids to start their own traditions so when we were gone they would not be left with voids. I think they could come down in the winter months, and we could visit up north perhaps in the summer.

Live is full of trade offs. I'll miss my apple trees, but I like my orange trees, etc.
I do not want to hijack this thread...perhaps we should start a new one about how we coped with that "Big Move".....

Frank

[Challenger]

Sitting in the LR of our son's condo in Hong Kong on the 29th floor looking over the harbor at Discovery Bay. Tomorrow off to Stanley on Hong Kong island for some outdoor market shopping -Disney Land HK with the grand children next week- and off to Macau the following week before returning to our Western Md home.Getting anxious to get on with our fall 2011 move to our new CYV. A new and greatly anticipated new chapter for us. Our kids and grand children in VA and HK are looking forward to visiting----oops we may need a bigger unit'