country n news-moving sale

COUNTRY N NEWS-MOVING SALE
we really werent looking to move so soon
we tentatively were looking to move out mid july
but
thanks to the drone guys friend who saw in our place
what we saw
the place had a contract on it before it went mls

now its sold if all goes through ok
thats good

now we have to move sooner than expected
thats bad

lucky for us this is a decision we have been working on for months
so we have been preparing for it for those months
both mentally and financially

now its here
now we got to get it done

so the moving sale
to unload everything we have
basically
if we cant get it in our car then its not going with us

some of the stuff is heirloom stuff
from my parents and their ancestors
all that goes back to arkansas where we want it to stay

then
the rest goes

it seems each large item has a story
some the new owner bought already
which is ok with us
he doesnt have to move it
we dont have to move it
a win win right

the duct tape chair is the one i hate to lose the most
my wife she bought home this ragged ole dirty chair
ok i ignored it for a long time
then i read online about doing duct tape furniture
i bought two big rolls of duct tape
put it all over the chair

its my favorite piece of furniture in the house
my granddaughter loves it
i think she thinks it a park play set
it twirls easily in circles
it rocks like a bucking horse

once my billfold fell down the sides and stuck itsself on a bar
under there
hiding itsself from us for weeks
it not having my billfold almost ruined our vacation

you ever took a vacation with cash only but all your cash
wasnt accessible
or
your credit cards
we did
to nashville
$20

then there is this hutch
one of my best friends mom was having to move after her husband died
so
she was selling this hutch
now
we gave her husband a dog
a min pin
whom he loved
he named her maggie

after he died
she contacted us
if you will take maggie i will give you the hutch
it matched our kitchen table
so we took it
$100

my older brother use to do auction stuff
back in the 80s he contacted my wife she
i think you will like this
she looked at it
she liked it
she bought it
then she told me about it

its been with us since then through 5 moves
$250

then theres this day bed with a trundle bed
that when you pull it out
it pops up

i will say that when we have a large group staying here
i always chose the trundle bed to sleep on
its the  most comfortable of the sleeping spots of them all

my wife she got this idea from somewhere
to take an old antique metal bed frame
then turn it into a day bed

she got a welder to build it for us
uh i should say
for her

it sits in our kitchen area
folks just seem to be attracted to it
i think it has a magnet that influences your brain
its a definite lounging spot

a lot of good conversation have happened there

it use to be in an extra bedroom we called the cave
in the afternoon you could lay on the bed
turn on the tv
close the blinds
turn on the fan
then
you were gone for a few hours

a great place for an afternoon nap
$75

this swing belonged to a friend
when her daughter out grew it
my wife she
like she did on all these things
just made it appear in our yard
of course
it was all taken apart

now
we had annual clinic parties here
she wanted it for the kids to play on
but
i think in the back of her head
she was thinking
its for our one day grandkids

well miss b
when she visited for a week
almost wore this swing set out
and
her grandmother

the yells and laughing could be heard over the property
more please more more
wheeeeeeeeee
$25

back in the mid nineties
we decided we wanted to invest in some bedroom furniture
that would be new
would be built solid
that would last forever
so
we bought this king size bedroom suite from north carolina

if we werent moving
and
downsizing
we never ever would have even consider selling this
bed and mattress and dresser and side tables

we had planned to maybe die in this bed one day
when our times come

but
its time to sell it
$350

then there is this thing
now its been here a long time
i just thought it was a table my wife she sat at to put her
sewing machine on

then as we were getting ready to sell stuff
there it was
an old antique kenmore sewing machine from the late 40s
or early 50s

a friend who knows antiques and sewing mahines
looked at it
no you cant sell it for this much
its worth a lot more
i have a friend who buys these
i sent a picture and details to her
she will probably drive here to buy it

nope
the clocks ticking
on saturady morning
its going for the price below unless we hear something different

now
the story
my wife she bought this old sears machine that was silver plated
when i was in residency
i painfully refinished it
it even worked

it was something to always hold onto and never sell

well one day i noticed
it was gone

i guess there was a time we were desperate for money
so she sold it

ok so i never let her forget it
so
i think her buying this was a way to make up for those years
of my harassing her
$40 unless he antique dealer comes through before saturday

so
this weekend
we will sell it all
if you see it
its for sale
it all must go

if you get a chance this weekend
rain or shine
come say bye to us
and
buy something while you are here

in a few weeks when we drive out our long drive
i am sure we will both have tears in our eyes
but
we plan to not look back
looking forward to this new chapter in our lives

here is the link to our moving sale on saturday may 20th
country n moving sale

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country n news-its all gotta go

COUNTRY N NEWS-ITS ALL GOTTA GO

we looked at each other
and both agreed
its gotta go

as we drive out of our driveway in a few weeks
close our two gates
we will look back over these 10 acres
we will leave it all
there

all we will have left of the place will be our 2 cars
full of what we deemed important
as
we make that journey back to where it all started
forty years ago

i think now about what we did
if one of my kids had done that
i would have told them
you are crazy

my wife she was 8 months pregnant
she had just graduated from college
i had graduated a few months earlier
we had no health insurance
i had no job

but
i knew i wanted to go to medical school
my life long dream
this was my best route to get there
was to make this cross country move back to
where i was born

we loaded up our uhaul truck full of all our
beat up and used furniture
dragging my old ford falcon behind it
having a friend drive our volkswagen bug out to us later
as he made his trek back to his hometown
in the east

now
we are doing it in reverse
our decision to move forty years ago
was
as it turned out to be the correct one
as
i finished a 30 year medical career
my wife she is finishing her teaching career
our kids are raised
we have no debt

now
we will head back west
to the next chapter in our life
this time taking only what we can stuff in our car
as we downsize to a smaller apartment or condo

yep
its all gotta go this weekend
as we do our moving sale
selling everything
that wont go into our cars

yep
all my duct tap stuff
my infamous duct tape chair
all my donald stuff
i didnt realize i had so much
someone a friend came through yesterday and bought some
of the donald stuff
oh yes theres more left
thanks
to all those patients over the years that gave me
all those donald duck gifts
especially from disneyworld and disneyland

why i even have a personally autographed donald duck hat
from donald duck himself

yes theres more and more stuff left
consider coming by and saying bye this weekend
and
buy something
information will be posted later this week

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alzheimers news-here we come

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-HERE WE COME

thats what we told our granddaughter as she looked into
the smartphone while face timing with us
she carries the phone around with her and talks to us
well we really dont understand what all she says
usually
but
she seems to understand us ok
when
we said this to her she smiled at us
so
i think she understood

we also told this to our other relatives who live in the area
santa barbara california
where we will be moving in a month

we were ready to list our place our country n on the mls listing for sale
this  last week
but
the weekend before
someone visiting with the drone operator filming our property for
the mls listing
told our realtor
i want to buy it
now
so
two days later it was a done deal
it never got listed
sorry those of you who wanted a chance at it
we decided
we may be on a ticking bomb
like what happened with my younger brother

if this new infusion experimental treatment doesnt work
this disease could accelerate at any time
that downhill fall thats acoming
its like walking along a beautiful plateau
near the edge is a cliff
you make that step and down you go

thats what happens with alzheimers disease
i know that
my wife shes knows that
thats always in the back of our minds when we make decisions

i know my brothers family his wife certainly understands
it seems it went fast for such a healthy looking person
we want to be as ready as we can when that happens

its happening fast
it started back over a year ago when i was giving a talk
at a church in georgetown
afterwards a lady came up to me and said
i dont know what to do
my husband has alzheimers disease
he clings to me all the time
he wanders aimlessly when i am gone

i wish we had moved before all this started

our kids all live in ohio
they want us to move there so they can help me
deal with him as this disease progresses
i am all alone down here

my advice to her
consider moving now
it will be hard to do real soon

as i left there that day
driving home
thats when i decided
this was not going to happen to us
ie
its not going to happen to my wife she

we began talking about it
between ourselves
we both agreed that this was the best thing for us to do
do it now
while we both are healthy
we both can make the transition to a new place
a long time before things get worse
as
change in someone with alzheimers is not accepted well
by that person

as we visited santa barbara last year
checking out all the things we would or could get involved
with
for me it was
gardening
volunteering with habitat for humanity meals on wheels school gardens etc
and
continuing my involvement with the alzheimers movement
i will be involved with all those when i arrive there
in fact
i already have a plot in a community garden there
i already have a walk team for their alzheimers walk this fall
i have the contacts for the other things i want to get involved with
the same for my wife she


yes thats a donald duck backpack she has
wonder where she got that

then
we have this beautiful growing granddaughter
that we want to be involved with as she gets older
i want her to know who we were when we are gone

i guess all i can say is
if you are in this situation
the longer you wait to make the decision to make a change
the harder it is to do it
so
we have decided
we lived a good life here
it will always have a special place in our hearts
we wont look back
just forward
to our new adventure
good or bad
we are ready

are you

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