I just realized how long it’s been since I’ve been here regularly. The geodog that is my icon was put down a little over a month ago. Just old age, but we still miss him incredibly.
Our son told us about a month before that about how he had met someone online and was going to move to Latvia to be with her. We spent an entire year locked down to keep him protected from Covid, and still live a very sheltered life…and he’s moving across the globe. He landed there yesterday.
My wife is going back to school to get a degree in Psychiatry from UWSP. Our daughter is dating someone (although she still doesn’t leave the house much). She will be attending UW Marshfield before following mom to Point.
I’m still teaching at Adams.
My dad moved out of the house he had been in since 1963. That was difficult. Not so much because of things in the house – he hasn’t changed anything since my mom died in 2008 – but because we are ‘close’ but not ‘close enough’ to easily get up there to help him out. We had two weekends we were able to go up. Oh yeah, we had an extra ‘son’ for a couple months because one of our real son’s friends from Ohio moved in with us before he moved to Germany before he plans to join the French Foreign Legion.
Really.
Anyway, the two boys helped move big stuff my (older than me) relatives couldn’t manage.
Now, the plan is to declutter our new house and sell of big things like a camper and tractor we don’t use or need. We went from an old farmstead with acres to mow and care for to about 1/2 the acreage of land covered with oak and no real clearing.
Sometimes, I manage to get caching.
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