Category: retirement
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Winter Storm
The photo doesn’t show what is going on. We are in the midst of ‘blizzard’ conditions (there are parameters for a storm to qualify for blizzard and I’m not sure this one actually does – but close enough!) The wind is gusting hard enough the flag on the house across the street is horizontal and…
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Seasons
Today we have had a lovely sunny day. The photo was taken before 10 am and you can tell from the long shadows just how low in the sky the sun is, this time of year. There is more winter weather in the forecast, but we got this lovely gift of a blue sky and…
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Musings
dreaming of spring We have another dreary day with weather warnings of snowmagedon to come. The house feels very quiet as Mary left yesterday. No distractions now, time to think about what comes ‘next’. With retirement from production sales, I am still working through how to shape my days and what my priorities will be. …
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Musings
dreaming of spring We have another dreary day with weather warnings of snowmagedon to come. The house feels very quiet as Mary left yesterday. No distractions now, time to think about what comes ‘next’. With retirement from production sales, I am still working through how to shape my days and what my priorities will be. …
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Musings
dreaming of spring We have another dreary day with weather warnings of snowmagedon to come. The house feels very quiet as Mary left yesterday. No distractions now, time to think about what comes ‘next’. With retirement from production sales, I am still working through how to shape my days and what my priorities will be. …
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Charting a New Course
The photo is of the tapestry I wove as part of the level four Guild of Canadian Weavers master weaver certificate. For many years I have used the image of a butterfly as a personal icon. In many societies, the butterfly is used to represent change, growth, development. The warp was linen, the background a…
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Ticking Boxes
Continuing to tick boxes on my journey to retirement. The cold ‘snap’ is over, the temps have warmed up…to minus 23 when I got up this morning. Felt positively balmy when I went out this morning! 😀 This week broke record low temperatures for our town. Talking to someone this morning, he mentioned having cabin…
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It’s a Journey
This morning I met with my accountant who helped me chart out the next steps in retiring. Notification has been sent to both taxation arms that my account is closed because my business is. We also discussed what needs to happen in order to file my income tax for 2019 and she has my books…
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Self Care
Create Joy is what the textile says. Today is a day ‘off’ for both of us. We each have health related things to do plus when I got up at 8 am the little weather ‘station’ we have that reads outside temps said it was -31 C. At that temperature nose hair freezes and frost…
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Extreme Cold
This week winter has arrived with a crunch – so to speak. We have ‘extreme’ cold warnings and the temperature is forecast to dip well into the minus 30s. C. However, since C and F converge at -40, just understand that it’s cold. Temperatures of this degree are not unusual for us. What is unusual…