Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

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Farewell to the Holiday Season

Well, the holidays are over for a while. For most people, the next holiday will be on Memorial Day which will be celebrated on Monday, May 30th, 2011. For us, we don’t have that schedule since we’re retired, but the busiest times are before us now, what with furnishing and landscaping a new home and preparing our old one for eventual sale.

I removed the poinsettias from the house and will plant them in the garden soon. I took this photo while this one was still in the pot. Click on the image to enlarge.

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02 Jan 2011 by Culture Home & Garden Photography

Home for the Holidays

lastview.jpgWhen we last saw our new house, Damsel climbed up the little hill behind the house and took this image. She took it on November 8th – six weeks ago tomorrow.

Image – construction progress as of 11/8/2010 – click to enlarge.

We fully intended to go back sooner, but we were held up because some custom outdoor lighting fixtures were held up in production. We’re told that they will be here (in California) in a couple of days and when they arrive we will be headed back to our new home to get them installed. The fixtures are just about the finishing touch on the new house. Thereafter, we’re going to start acquiring the furniture items we need to actually be able to occupy the house.

We have to stay over the Christmas Holiday to meet the following week with the utility company to install the gas meter and for any other yet unknown details of getting everything set up. We also plan to arrange for the new 22 long gun fire safe to be delivered and installed.

There are a lot of details that are still emerging which we will address when we understand what needs to be done. We are now hoping to be in the fully furnished house by March.

19 Dec 2010 by Arizona Culture Retirement

Thanksgiving Day

I can’t believe I ate the whole thing . . .

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Turkey breast with all the trimmings: mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, cranberry jelly, Damsel’s killer dressing, candied yams, steamed broccoli and a buttermilk dinner roll. Thanksgiving dinner plus 3 NFL football games today equals thankfulness in our household.

We hope you enjoyed your day as much as we have. Click on the image to enlarge.

25 Nov 2010 by Culture Food & Dining

Weekend AND Thanksgiving Grocery Shopping

cart.jpgWe usually do our grocery shopping on Thursdays. Before we retired, we went shopping on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. We changed to Thursday because there is less traffic in the store unless they have one of their weird 6-hour sales or something.

We decided that today we would combine the weekend shopping and pick up the things we’re going to need for our Thanksgiving dinner. As usual, the store wasn’t too crowded today. We shopped for the weekend faire, got some household supplies. got a few pantry items and also got everything we needed for our holiday celebration.

We redeemed a bunch of coupons and walked out of the store having saved over seventy dollars on the total. We’re looking forward to our weekend cooking and the Thanksgiving Holiday with eager anticipation.

18 Nov 2010 by California Culture

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