Another small step and updates
Kathy is painting the wood trim of the living room picture window – it took a lot of hours to get it ready between sanding and then taping the 20 smaller panes that make up the window. Kathy received a...
View ArticleFuture Travel Plans and Traveling Buddies
A couple we know from Mérida, Tom and Debi, are in Madrid. This is very interesting to us because we are planning a trip to the Iberian Peninsula for 2014. Move to Mérida around May of 2013, and...
View ArticleMore activity, more progress
On getting the house ready to move: Living room project is almost done, and it was a big one – and was done entirely by Kathy. New paint on the walls, picture window frame sanded and painted, trim all...
View ArticleQuestions from a reader, and a some answers
Dennis asked some questions in a comment to another post, and I have decided to answer some of them in this post. His comment is here. I answered the easy ones there, and will work on the other ones...
View ArticleMid-year look at retirement plans
The plan is to move to Mérida in late spring / early summer 2013, in order to enjoy events like big band music at Parque Santiago on Tuesday evenings, Performers at the Thursday Serenata Yucateco at...
View ArticleMore getting ready work
This stuff is not real exciting to you, the gentle readers, I imagine, but…. The house started getting painted today. It will get finished tomorrow and we get a bid on replacing some fencing tomorrow...
View ArticleAnother short update
Hi everyone, The house is painted. The fall/winter rains have started. Kathy is legally blind, according to her doctors. She is meeting with the Social Security Administration in early November to see...
View ArticleShipping and cat stuff
Have a ballpark figure of $6,000 for a 20 foot container from Portland, OR to Progreso, Yucatán. We’ll see how that holds up once the fellow does the complete work-up. In other news, Merlin Cat Smith*...
View Article2013 – The Year of the Move
Hi everyone, It has been some time since I have posted. There has been quite a bit going on, much of it medical. Kathy has had cataract surgery and that has improved the very narrow field of vision...
View ArticleTest Results
Got the results of the test. Here is what the endocrinologist wrote to me: “Your adrenal vein sampling’s aldosterone results are back and I have carefully reviewed and analyzed them. These data suggest...
View ArticleSurgery
I am going to have a left adrenalectomy on Feb. 1. It should improve the BP, resolve the potassium deficiency, reduce cardiovascular risk and extend my quality lifespan. There is a motel across a small...
View ArticleOne week Post-op now
Hi everyone, My two previous posts were about the end of the 6 month diagnostic journey I had been on, got to the diagnosis, and referred to the surgery, a left adrenalectomy. The surgery happened...
View ArticleProgress is being made
Kathy is retired! Last Wednesday was her last day at work, and on Thursday she flew out for a weekend with 9 women friends she has known for 35 years. She flies back tomorrow. She will spend her...
View ArticlePensions and Real Estate agent
Kathy has two of her pensions coming in. We have selected a real estate agent for the sale of our house. May not seem like much, but it feels like acceleration toward escape velocity to us. That is...
View ArticleOn having acquired a real estate agent and preparing the house.
I will fill in some of the details about what we will be doing over the next month, but first our meeting with the agent. Our agent’s name is Kristin Rader. She was recommended by a friend from...
View ArticleThe house is sold
Two days, it took. Multiple offers and a mini bidding war. Put a deposit on an apartment in Lake Oswego today. Got a bid for moving some stuff to Merida, will get another one next week. Got my retiree...
View ArticleBusy times, and sad too
Since selling the house we have moved into a 1 bedroom apartment and stored some belongings that still need sorted in the garage we rented along with the apartment. This little 47 unit complex has a...
View ArticleHousing in Mérida
We’ve moved from the house we sold into an apartment. The next move will be to Mérida and we are thinking about what we want in a house there. It will be a rental as we have no plans to buy at this...
View ArticleA blast from the past
The below was written over 7 years ago, published in late January, 2006. The timeline changed (remember the Great Recession?) Timing Sunday, January 22, 2006 Timing is everything When looking at the...
View ArticleRetirement has happened – and travel/moving plans
Hi everyone, It is official. I am retired. This past Friday was my last day of work. Yeah, I may do a little time in December/January helping to orient/onboard the two new research analysts that...
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