I also have a 800 sq ft loft above the garage. This is what needs to be cleared out. My youngest has really gotten into parkour and think the loft would be a cool place to make some mats and bars for her to practice on. At the same time want to put a hockey net up there for my oldest. Figure there has to be a way to do both.
Please send that memo about Spring to Mother Nature. Guess we have 2 more rounds of snow coming our way including potentially 2-3 inches later in the week.
Is Playa del Carmen where you live now? If so and I make it we are grabbing a beer and you can tell me the best places to visit.
The joys of teenagers :) I remember moving to Vancouver and setting up a tent in the loft for the kids and their buddies because it was simply raining all of the time!! We all hated it;)
Wish I had a direct line to Mother Nature for you! My parents, just south of Detroit, were complaining of the same thing. Spring can't come fast enough for them.
And yes, Brian and I are in Playa so if (when?) you come, it will be more than one ;)
Not sure how anyone lives where it rains all the time. That would drive me crazy. But sounds like you have gotten to bounce around Canada a bit and live in different places so that's fun. At least you knew what you liked and didn't like about all those places.
Yeah Detriot area has been getting very similar weather as us. Some winters we don't get the same storms, but this year it's been a lot that have come across us and straight out east hitting Detroit and then the East coast...they are sick of Winter this year too from people I know out there.
Good, more then 1 is how I roll. My wife will take a drink with an umbrella and the beach. Myself give me a bucket of beer and where we are doesn't really matter. She is the Yin to my Yang. We are so opposite in so many ways it's almost crazy we have been together for 21 years now.
The rain is what brought us here; last winter, I think it rained for 8 months straight...I was ready to hang myself and decided, 'that's it', we are outta here!
I just read your last bit to Brian and he laughed because we are both 'bucket of beer' kinda people :)
21 years...good for you guys. You seem to hear that less and less these days...Ying/yang, whatever works! Congratulations ;)
I would say a move was the better choice if it had gotten that bad. Can't even imagine it raining that often. I'm sick of it after 2 or 3 days.
So are you guys retired down there or did you find work? Would imagine finding work is the issue if you move to Mexico.
Chat with someone that left Canada for Panama and know that earning a real income down there is not as simple as in Canada or the US.
In May we will be 22 year since we started dating and 17 years of being married. I was smart and picked our dating anniversary as our wedding date. When I noticed it was a Sat and in the time frame we wanted it was a firm date for me. One less date to
forgetremember.haha you're last comment is funny; I'm always the one who doesn't remember dates!! So I completely understand :)
Because of Brian's health, he's on a disability pension which did not go very far in Vancouver. Here, we can live very well on it; and I could always tutor or give private English lessons if we needed. Because it's a tourist destination, and there really is no other economy here besides tourism, the ability for the locals to learn English is big. Right now I've got a couple deals in place to simply trade English for Spanish lessons. If we need the money though, I'm sure I can make some tutoring.
And yes, the rain in Vancouver is something you hate or love. I was always in the first category. It's the continual drizzle and grey that get's so depressing. Being here, I realised that I need the sunshine for my mental health ;)
Enjoy your weekend :)
Thanks for sharing. Taking mental notes as I go to see if I can make a sensible argument about my extended vacation plan. The take a few years to see the world plan keep evolving and will likely take at least a year to put together, but just maybe I'll be able to get my "everything needs to be planned out" Wife to go along for the ride.
So many people work their entire life trying to save up for a great retirement, but that day comes and all they have really done is save up to afford a good nursing home...or worse die early without spending any that money they worked so hard to save. You can't take it with you and my kids are both healthy & intelligent so they can make it on their own as adults.
Sure many people think leaving a "legacy" means leaving financial support to their kids. But to me I'd rather it be that I taught them lessons like to take time with their kids vs being a slave to the system and to live your life as you want to live it, not as others say it should be lived.
You took the words right out of my mouth..all of it!! Bang on :)
And I had to chuckle about your wife, the planner. I figured all those years I was a teacher, I had to plan out everything. I'm so glad not to have to do that anymore; I prefer to fly by the seat of my pants ;)