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  • Chapter 47. Moving

    Moving is horrible.  Don’t let anyone tell you differently.  We downsized from a 2200 square foot house, not large by today’s standards, to an 1100 square foot apartment.  We downsized from a half-acre garden to a front porch and a patio. We downsized and then did it again.  And again. And one more time.  We took each room of our…

  • Chapter 1.   It wasn’t the house.  It was the land.  

    We settled here some 47 years ago.  The half-acre property sitting in the middle of an urban area gave us all we needed:  space for our two cats and two dogs.  And it would ultimately give us the place where we would acquire and say good-bye to more cats, dogs. . . . among them our 7 beloved…

  • Air.

    Chapter 1.   It wasn’t the house.  It was the land.   We settled here some 47 years ago.  The half-acre property sitting in the middle of an urban area gave us all we needed:  space for our two cats and two dogs.  And it would ultimately give us the place where we would acquire and say good-bye to more cats, dogs.…