by Retired Life Now | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson We’re buying a house. Our house in North Aurora has an offer and we have to move out by May 4th. Fortunately, Alecia, who was selling our house in North Aurora, did some research and gave us the contact information for a realtor, Jane Stone, in...
by Retired Life Now | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson We moved into our new house on May 4th. It is now a couple of months later! As I sit here in the front room, where a couple of months ago were stacks of moving boxes, the scent of a new house lingering in the air, a feeling of newness was settling...
by Retired Life Now | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson Unpacking all our stuff was a challenge in itself. It took us 3 months to pack everything up to get ready for the move. Why would we expect it to take a shorter time to unpack? While we were opening boxes and putting things in rooms, we started to...
by Retired Life Now | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson Both Karen and I grew up in the Chicago area. We have lived in Wisconsin. We have gotten used to the highs of summer and the lows of winter. I enjoy being outside, whether cutting the grass or shoveling the snow. Yet, as we thought about moving to the...
by Retired Life Now | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson We have the North Aurora house sold. We’ve closed on a house in New Athens. Now it’s time to sort out the moving process. The first step was clearing out things at the North Aurora house. We had gone through the radon remediation process a...
by Retired Life Now | May 29, 2023 | Blog
By Bruce Carlson It began a little over a year ago. We had just celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary. As we looked ahead to our 50th anniversary we reflected on the 49 years of marriage and what the future would look like. A lot happened in those 49 years of...
