We are busy packing and labeling boxes.
As is obvious, we are book lovers. We used to run a bookstore and we have hundreds of books. Most but not all of them are packed into boxes now. As they become packed for the movers our bookshelves are becoming empty.
Every time we have moved, we have said "Never again! We must stop accumulating things!"
And, of course, by the next move we are inundated with more and more "stuff". The late George Carlin had a wonderful routine about that.
I keep saying to SWMBO "but we're packing all our stuff and we don't have any place to go yet!"
She says "shut up and pack!"
We made an exploratory trip to Phoenix this week and drove all over town checking out areas we might like to live in. The ones we really like, of course, are too expensive for us. We contacted a realtor or two and learned from one of them that what we want is a property management person. We think we've found one so, as SWMBO keeps telling me, "we will find a place to live."
One thing we have discovered is that there don't seem to be a lot of classified ads for homes in the newspaper anymore. Apparently digital media has virtually eliminated that form of advertising. Since that is a huge portion of any newspaper's income it is not surprising to see so many newspapers stopping publishing or cutting back and going to the Internet.
I said at the beginning of this that I had moved 30 times in my life. You might be surprised to learn that we have lived where we are now for nearly 12 years and one previous home for about the same amount of time. That tells you one of two things - either I've had a lot of short tenures in homes or I'm very, very old.
I think the first is true. As to the second I'm feeling older every single day.
