THE NEXT 20 YEARS: November 2023

The Next 20 years, 11/21/2023

It’s time to say goodbye but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure..

Ernie Harwell

I’m going to be saying good bye to Ohio, and be saying Hello to Texas. When I moved into my present home, I had thought I’d never move again, but here I am preparing to move again.

This will be a lot of work because I can’t take much with me, Only my clothes and a few precious treasures. My daughter and her husband invited me to move in with them in their new home in Texas. After working for 30 years at Ford, my SIL is retiring and they are moving to Texas close to where DS#2 lives. He offered a retirement job to my SIL and they are moving as soon as they sell their house in Ohio. I rent and do not own the home I have now, but I do have to empty it out. Thankfully I do have DS#5 to help me do this, but he cannot do it all alone, some of the other members of my family are going to have to help out at one time or another.

All my furniture, pots and pans and dishes will be either sold or given away. I also have lots of decorations I use every season of the year, and it will all have to go.

I have a lot of framed pictures and I will have to take the pictures out of the frames in order to take them with me. I’ll sell or give away the frames, but keep the pictures.

Everything has to go…

Meanwhile I’ve been sorting through the linens they cannot be moved as my daughter has her own. I have a friend coming over to help me, she knows of a place that will take them and she’ll be carting them away from me. I have all sorts of linens, blankets, towels and tableclothes that she’ll help me get rid of.

Some are stored in the bathroom in the linen closet there, but there are also seasonal ones in the spare bedroom. That is where I store them until the appropriate season comes. I have a bag full of Christmas towels alone. Over the years, I have collected a lot.

We’ll be using minimal Christmas decorations this year, so their won’t be much to take down. The rest is going to be gone, rather than packed away to be stored in the storage shed outside. It is full too. I have seasonal decorations stored in their, plus my lawnmower and weed wacker. I have snow shovels, flags and a whole tub full of what I call funeral flowers. I put these on my loved ones graves on Memorial day. But I won’t be here to do that anymore. I have wreaths for all seasons to hang on my door and flags to decorate my flower boxes with. What isn’t given away or sold will have to be thrown out in the trash. We have a bulk pick up service here with our garbage removal and at some point I imagine, I’ll be setting out a few, if not many things to be taken away by the garbage men.

Along with that I’ll need to find new prescription insurance. The medical insurance can go to Texas with me, but the prescription insurance I have is not accepted in Texas. My insurance agent hopes to be able to help me with that. She’ll recommend people for me to call. There is no need to change my bank accounts and every thing can be done on line, I’ll just change my address with them. There is so much to think of, I’m trying to make a list. That will also including cancelling my car insurance as I’m selling my car. I won’t need it when I move in with my daughter and I’m incapable of driving it all the way there. I’ll miss the convenience, but I’ll be saving a lot of money.

What will be likely my last 20 years is going to be very different than what I thought they would be.

I’ll try to keep you all updated and I continue to prepare to move. And when I move, I’ll continue to blog too.

It’s going to be adventure, and I’m getting very excited to see it all happen. I’ve always wanted to live in a warmer location and now I will be. I’ll miss every one I leave behind, but I’ll be with family so it shouldn’t be too bad at all.