After 23 years of being in Alaska, and the very LONG COLD winters, Tom retired from Spenard Builders Supply (now Pro Build). We were very thankful for this job he had, all the time we were in Anchorage. I tell people it took Tom 5 years to get me up to Alaska, and it took me 10 years to get him out. :-) It was getting more and more difficult for him to go to work with all the changes, and his friends getting laid off for no apparent reason. Things were NOT real stable for him. We decided to take an early retirement and get out while the getting was good.
It took 9 months of sorting and cleaning out closets, and sheds and closets again, to get ready for the BIG MOVE back to Colorado. Whew! I was very thankful that we had LOTS of time to go through our home in stages. We took one step at a time. It was kind of difficult on Tom, to let go of some of his collections. :-) So...we would took it slow and did what we could, as I was still working and mainly only packed and sorted on weekends. We took several loads to the Good Will, and Salvation army. We gave books and other things away, trying to downsize our collection of things from being in the same home for 23 years also. The ARC came and picked up several loads, and we STILL had OVER 6000 pounds of stuff we moved to Colorado.
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But you're IN Colorado! Yay!
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