Moving on to 2018...

Hello,
We made it through Halloween. In the first bunch of trick or treaters one little girl decided she didn't want candy, she wanted to come in and see what hubby was eating, lol. But she finally took the candy.

Buzzards hanging around the swans and ducks today for some reason.

There were about 4 buzzards until I went to get my camera...of course.

End of 2017...

After Dad passed Jarin and I stayed through Christmas. My brothers and their families came back at Christmas too. Jarin had a friend from Australia coming Dec 31st, Rachel. They spent a few days at Disney World since Jarin picked her up in Orlando. Jarin brought the crud back with her, then Rachel caught it a day or so later, then Mom. I thought I had dodged the bullet but then I caught it. So that delayed my leaving until Jan 15, 2018.

2018...

With still a little coughing and congestion, Jarin, Rachel and I headed back to NC. Jarin had to go back to get her car and they stayed a week up there. It snowed shortly after we got home so Rachel got to enjoy snow while she was here. We enjoyed having Rachel, she was a lot of fun and hopefully she'll get to come back soon.

So back to the move, Hubby came back up mid February for a couple of months and we finished getting the house ready. Getting rid of stuff and taking stuff to the dump or goodwill. Gave some things to friends. The movers came March 6 and 7 to get us packed up and loaded. His job got Hubby a hotel in Greensboro near work and I stayed a couple of days in town because I had Carpet cleaners and such coming after the movers left. Then I went up to the hotel in Greensboro. While there we picked out stuff for the new house we were building in Florida. A one story finally after all these years. We did our taxes and the girls taxes. Just enjoyed our time together. Thankfully our house in NC sold pretty quickly and we closed on that in May. I left NC to go to Mom's on April 9th, thinking Hubby had to stay a few more weeks but he only had to stay about a week longer.

So the next few months was me going down to stay with hubby in the camper 6 weeks or so then back to mom's, back and forth.

Then Hubby's dad started going downhill with infections and such until he passed on Aug 11. He was a retired Air Force veteran so he got the full military funeral.

We finally closed on our house Sept 21. It shouldn't have taken over 9 months to build but it did. 

Completed

The kitchen minus the fridge and stove

Our doors are dark grey

Oct 6 - 10th - Hubby spent in the hospital with pneumonia. He came home the Wednesday before thinking it was the flu but he was no better by Saturday. I told him he needed to go to the hospital - 'no, I'll be alright' - can you walk to the car or do I need to call an ambulance? 'I can walk to the car'. So we got him dressed and to the hospital. Hurricane Michael was headed this way during that time, he got out the day it was expected but lucky for us we had no effects from it. 

On to 2019...

Take care,

Sheila