A new year, a new you.

12/29/2023  It’s almost a new year and with that comes another trip around the sun for me. Birthdays, it’s a love-hate relationship. I hate growing older but I prefer it to the alternative. That was my fathers’ outlook on aging. And as always, he was correct.

I’m grateful for my health and grateful that I am still active. I strive daily to keep moving. That’s not to say I don’t have downtime and often covet those afternoon snoozes, because I do. All I have to say to the boys is, let’s take a nap. They’re on the bed waiting for me. But on the flip side, if I walk into the laundry room, they’re waiting to get their leashes for a walk. Speaking of walking, we average 3.5 miles a day, we walk twice a day, every day. When it was warmer weather but not dreadfully hot, we were walking three times a day. I have been doing this daily since January of 2020. The only break I had was 3 weeks with my ankle surgery. My low average is 25 miles a week. 25 X 52 = 1300/year x 4 years is 5200 miles of walking. Why am I not thinner?

FB just reminded me that it was 4 years ago Dec 28th that I left Roatan to move back to the US. Four years and three states later, here I am.

Bill moved me here and went back to KY on Sept 10th. He came back here on Dec 9th with the idiot Highway. He has been working on the house. I bought all new blinds, a garbage disposal, new flooring for the master bedroom and bathroom, new quarter round for the floors with the new LVP, a new double sink vanity with 2 new black faucets, a new toilet and a new freestanding bathtub with a black freestanding faucet. So far the master bedroom and closet have new flooring. The guy I hired was referred by my neighbor. I am not a fan of his so far and if he doesn’t show up tomorrow, I will be much less of a fan. UGH.

The flooring will match the LVP in the bedroom, the halls and the living room.

We also plan to redo the guest bath, and the floors in both extra bedrooms and the kitchen. The kitchen will be a huge redo.

I drug my Christmas tree downstairs and put it up before Thanksgiving. I honestly think it was the prettiest Christmas tree I’ve ever had. I took it down today (12/29).

It actually took a few more times until we could turn it on without the alarms going off. Now it’s nice to have it because I usually keep the furnace off unless it drops below 40 degrees.

The next day Bill and Highway joined us for a walk. Just as we were headed back, a truck came down the path behind our fence and a guy got out. He looked like he was part of the Duck Dynasty. He was not happy that we were out there. He said we were chasing the deer away and he wouldn’t be able to kill one. He said he spends thousands of dollars to hunt back there, he feeds the deer and then hunts them. Isn’t that illegal? He claims the deer wouldn’t come around if they smelled dogs and people. I wanted to tell him that in KY the deer must be stupid because the dogs can chase the deer on a Tuesday morning and the deer are back that afternoon. He must have smarter deer. He asked us to stay out until Jan 1 when the season is over. I apologized and said no problem at all. Whatever….

Bill brought the pressure washer with him and we cleaned the siding that was mildew covered and the screened-in porch. Then Bill dug the pavers out of the garden (previously he cut all the boxwood back to the ground) and I pressure-washed the pavers. Then he placed them back as a border. We’re going to get landscape fabric, cover this mess up, and mulch over it. The boxwood will come back.

Bill just went to get pizza for dinner. Max hit me, it’s dinner time and I’m obviously not moving quickly enough towards the kitchen to feed him.

Happy New Year everyone!!  XOXOXO