...for me to write a post, (I know... it's been 8 months, sorry). I will get caught up to the end of last year in this post.
We took the house off the market last July so we could leave and spend time in Michigan and not have to worry about showing it. We drove to Oklahoma and spent a few days there and then, on our way to Michigan we met up with my sister and her husband (who just retired that day) who were vacationing in a cabin on a river. It was a really nice place and we spend the day and night there and had a lot of fun and celebrated his retirement - yayyy!
Michigan was great to reconnect with family and friends. We had our yearly camp BBQ, much smaller this year, but we had a great time. We also traveled up to the Copper Country and spend the night at Baraga State Park which overlooks Lake Superior, it was just gorgeous. We walked to a local pizza place and got a pizza, and ended up taking it back to the campground so we could eat it and drink a beer (no beer at the pizza place, IN DA U.P., say it isn't so).
I went with a classmate to see another classmate's puppies. They were 7 of the most adorable golden retriever puppies I have ever seen. I think they were 4 weeks when I saw them, soooo sweet, I could have held them all day. It is great to follow them as they grow; she posts pictures of the pups in their new homes and they are all gorgeous.
I flew back to San Diego in late September and hubby stayed at our camp to bow hunt and returned in October. Since it was so late in the year, we decided to wait and re-list the house after the holidays.
Christmas was good, we just didn't think earlier in the year that we would be here for another Christmas so all of our stuff was in storage that we needed to retrieve. We decided not to get a tree and on December 23rd, I went to the store to get last minute stocking stuffers and other things that we needed. As I was going out the door hubby says "Oh yeah, do you think you could grab a small artificial Christmas tree while you are out". Um, OK, if they have any left at all.
Well. low and behold all the trees were marked down considerably AND the ones that were floor models were 50% off! So I got a skinny 6 foot tree that looked great and full for $10 - score!! I had to disassemble the tree and try to fit it in the cart, but managed quite nicely I thought. The store that I went to has 2 levels and when you go to the 2nd level, you take the escalator and next to the escalator is a cart escalator chute. You push the cart in through the gate and there is a hook on the bottom of the cart that catches in the slot and it pulls the cart up the chute to the top and does just the reverse when you go down. Well, when I went to go down after getting the tree, someone ahead of me pushed their cart through the chute but it wasn't going anywhere so I pushed my cart into it to get it to catch and go down but it didn't, so I pushed my cart through the gate really far to get that cart going and hopped on the escalator. Well, apparently that cart didn't have a hook on the bottom and it went screaming down that chute and shot out at the end, flipped over and spilled the contents of the cart everywhere. The alarm sounded, the cart escalator stopped with my cart partway down filled with the tree and everyone just stopped and stared at me coming down the escalator. I almost thought it was a candid camera moment. I came down and said, "wow, what happened??? Oh look, the cart doesn't have a hook on the bottom, this could have injured someone". The store manager helped the lady pick up her stuff and switched her cart real quick. That could have turned into a very bad day for me and everyone, what if there were kids standing in front of the swinging gates at the bottom? Whew!
That pretty much sums up the last 8 months, hope I didn't bore you.
Thanks for reading!
