Leaving on a Jet Plane and Arriving in a U-Haul Truck

Trip to get the last of the furniture from storage and closing out the storage unit.

Unloading Cliff the Big Red Truck

March 1, 2025 On Friday (February 28), we decided to go out for breakfast and then stop at Walmart to pick up my prescriptions. We had breakfast at the Box Car Cafe in Sheffield, Alabama. It was eleven miles from the house and a short distance from Walmart. They got good reviews. I had a […]

Unloading the U-Haul Truck

February 28, 2025 After we got home yesterday (February 27), we walked around the yard. It was great to stretch our legs and to see how everything was. I was so happy to see some daffodils blooming. Nox was happy to walk around doing Nox things. She enjoyed sniffing things. After we recovered from the […]

Sweet Home Alabama, Where All Our Stuff Is Too

February 28, 2025 We left Colorado on Tuesday morning (February 25). We took our fully charged walkie talkies and used them to communicate as I followed the U-Haul in Cliff the Big Red Truck. We stopped at a truck stop in Colorado so Bruce and I could take a bio break. As we were heading […]

Emptied Out One Storage Unit and Most of the Second Storage Unit

February 24, 2025 On Sunday (February 23), we filled Cliff the Big Red Truck, full of boxes and items from the unconditioned storage unit. Our pickup truck’s bed was full of boxes and the backseat was full of other items. The truck’s tonneau cover should keep the items in the bed dry. Today (February 24), […]

Cliff the Big Red Truck Is Now an Alabama Truck

December 12, 2024 On Monday (December 9), we got the Florida titles in the mail. In Tuesday (December 10), after the new hood was installed, we headed to Florence, AL so I could see a dermatologist. I was diagnosed with lipodermatosclerosis. I received three shots of steroids in the quarter sized red spot on my […]

Positive News on Bruce’s Poison Ivy Rash

October 20, 2024 Since Bruce has been putting the extra strength Benadryl cream and Calamine lotion on his horrific poison ivy rash, it is starting to heal up. He is much less itchy and he can go much longer between putting on the cream and lotion. He is no longer in pain from the rash. […]

Trying Out My New Stove and Laundry Time

October 19, 2024 Bruce came home with a couple loads of laundry from his trip to Golden, CO. Since Bruce doesn’t have a lot of clothes, I needed to do laundry today. I had thawed some sausages we picked up in Missouri, so I wanted to cook them for breakfast. After wiping the glass cooktop […]

The Bed Frame Arrived Today!

October 16, 2024 Nectar has been great to work with. When our bed frame got lost in Dallas, TX, the company shipped us a new bed frame. It was shipped on Monday, so it was here in three days. The delivery person left it next to the garage. The box was beat up, so I […]

Cool Weather Arrives

October 15, 2024 Last night, it was windy and the wind brought cool weather. When I arrived at Blackberry Homestead this afternoon, I put frozen items into the freezer and some cold items into the refrigerator. I had these tubes of various food items. I wasn’t sure how to store them in my new fridge. […]