Mayberry (sp?) USA will be my new home. It's a walk back in time to when people go for evening walks or sit on their porches in the evenings (granted not everyone but a whole lot more than they do in Wausau, WI.) A place where the oldster men gather for morning coffee and to swap stories. It's facinating.
Walked to the Randalls Bakery the other day, Maggie was just bringing out a tray of apple filled bear claws. I bought about a dozen for my late morning guests. While I was there I talked briefly with a number of residents who were having coffee at the sunday bar. Later at home, some family dropped by and a friend was there to help move things. They all dug into the bakery and had some coffee. Their golden retriever checked out all the rooms and then plopped in the kitchen hoping for some bakery to be handed out or dropped. Pat brought some cucumbers and cherry tomatoes to share. Later another relative stopped by to update me on my future sister-in-law's state at the hospital (she...

Found an old logging hook buried in the attic. Wood is in great shape, Metal is a little rusty but solid, and the hinge works pretty smoothly. It's the kind of hook that pushes open when you push against a log and then when you pull it grabs in and hangs on. Facinating stuff.

Lifes great. I love this new house and the location. The attic is filled with treasures. From exercise machines (2 of them) to electrionic keyboard, to a bunch of computer cables, wires, hard drives, CD drives, to flannel sheets, comforters, boxes of DVD's and Videos, Video games, a gameboy game, a child's slide and playset, a antique wooden highchair in excellent shape, knitted scarfs, and crocheted things ... So much more that I haven't explored. Can't wait to spend some time up there sorting and sifting and exploring. FUN!

The location is awesome. I've gone back in time about 50 years. The teenagers drive through the one main street in town and talk and hang out on Friday nights. They cause very little trouble if any. The older men gather at "Ma's Cafe" every morning for coffee and talk it up, telling fish stories about lake superior, stories about storms, floods, or the big one that got away, the bear that got into a neighbor's yard and had to be chased away......

I have not even had internet available to me for almost a month and when it was available it was only for maybe an hour a week so little surfing or play was done. I've not been in here in so long I was surprised by the changes that have taken place here at TFP. I like it. It may take time to get used to things but it seems pretty easy to find stuff.

I am so excited about new changes going on for me. I've bought a new house. in Michigan. The mortgage payments will be so minimal that subsisting on one job for the three of us will be quite possible. I've got a job working for the school. Substituting in areas OTHER than teaching, at least until I can get my substitute teaching certificate. I've found that is much more possible in Michigan than it would ever be in Wisconsin. So doors are opening easier with this move.

The house is a 3000+ sq ft colonial in a small town of about 1,800. It used to be a duplex but when we put in the new electrical panel and service...