Wisconsin Or Bust

First, the first installment in the story on how we came here.......  The Idea.  The very idea! There we were.  Sitting in our living room on Kinsey Ave. in Kremmling, Colorado.  Circa 2017...ish.  I'm not entirely sure on the date.   Bryan had been working for the grocery store for roughly five years.  I had been with the paving company for 2 years, and I was off for the season.  (As you know, I had four months out of each year off, Thanksgiving through the 3rd week of April, every winter.) Bryan was working too hard.  His arthritis had been in remission, but was starting to creep back in.  He was stressed and tired and sick and cold and discouraged.   I had done a little research about retirement and what we needed to do to get ready.  So of course my "feed" online had retirement stuff in it.  An article popped up about the 10 best states to retire to.  Hmm, I thought.   We had started to feel like we were stuck where we were.  If you recall, we moved to Walden Colorado

 First an update: We are still fighting that John Deere.  It sucks that we paid so much money for the darn thing, and have had so many problems with it.  Reminds us of Gina's Neon.  It had one failed sensor after another.  This one has one failed safety switch after another.  We are putting some more switches in it this week, so we will see if we get anywhere.   Bryan is looking for substantial snow removal tools and methods.  It's a long sloping driveway, so we will need reliable and easy snow removal, or my car will never make it out of the garage in the winter.  Now that I know I have to work, it's a critical issue.   We got the raised beds delivered.  Some assembly required.  We are about half way through putting them together.  So stay tuned.   Bryan put up shelves pretty much everywhere!  He put me a set of shelves and a closet rod in the laundry room.  He put up that old set of coat hooks with a hat rack.  He put that in the little passthrough under the stairs betwee

 An update: We are of course working.  No time for either of us to do anything extracurricular.  But Bryan is getting a few things worked on, since he doesn't leave home until 10am each morning.   I got a bunch of stuff unpacked.  Started on loading my bookcases in the living room.  Found one box of oil lamps and put them on the mantle.  Found my good storage shelf until.  It will go in the "green room".   I did end up getting July 5th off, which gave me a four day weekend.  So I'm taking this time to catch up.  I'm hoping to come up with a better plan to keep on top of things, because work is literally kicking my butt!  I will try to work on my office stuff and blogs at night after supper from my couch.  Hoping that works out better.   We are officially Wisconsin residents.  Well, only Bryan is, for real.  Last week, Bryan was able to get Wisconsin plates on all our vehicles.  He got his driver's license within a few weeks of us getting here.  I, however, do