A Wonderful Vacation

We had a great vacation, spent some time with Sabrena and Arthie and our grandbabies. I haven't uploaded pictures to Flickr.com yet, but will put up a link when I do.

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Most of our time was spent in North Carolina with our friends. We found a builder for our retirement home, and chose a house plan that seemed closest to what we want. We talked with the builder about what changes we want, he said they were all possible and is sending the project to a draftsman. From there he will be able to price out the project, and if it exceeds our budget he said he will suggest where we can cut back.

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The whole thing is very exciting. We retire at the end of January, but do not intend to put our present home on the market during the winter, probably in April. If it sells fairly quickly we would hope to ready to move to NC in May, and that is the builder's goal for completion. (Having built a Church building and rennovated two others I know that construction delays are the norm, not the exception.

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We did do a lot of reading, I will share the list here within the next week and have some comments on the most interesting ones.

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We of course have been watching the Democratic Convention, quite exciting. I am looking forward to Obama's speech tonight.