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Around Town in Catonsville
New residents can sign up for the Around Town Bus tour of Catonsville and Arbutus every month. Tuesday was our turn on the two hour tour on a Charlestown shuttle bus. A resident who grew up in Catonsville and who lived for 40 years in Arbutus was our tour guide. Although we lived in the…
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Settling In to Community Living
Where does the time go? Here we are heading to a six week mark on the calendar since we moved in. Life is good. The adjustment has been easy for both of us. It has surprised me how fast I got used to having a nice meal every night. We have sampled all the dining venues.…
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Easy Street
It’s been two weeks since we moved in. We marked our anniversary by paying off the balance of our deposit now that the house in Warner Robins closed. The sales office has moved to a temporary building in from of Charlestown Square but Neale met us in the old offices. The front of the building…
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Easy Grocery Shopping
So I needed a few groceries but I didn’t want to fight for a parking place down at the Wilkens Plaza Giant. So I waited at the front of my building for the Giant shuttle that runs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30 – 11:30. I bought my old Winn-Dixie bags and off I…
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CCRC Life Begins
Here we are a month later, moved in to Apt. 511 in the St. Charles at the large Charlestown Retirement Community. All in all, the packing and move went as arranged. Thank heaven, my cleaning lady for the past 6 years opened a thrift store on May 1. She took the furniture and other “stuff”…
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House Under Contract
What a relief! We have a contract on our house. No more “show ready” clean up when we leave the house. No more open houses. Now the real work begins. Packing. We have some downsizing to do. Moving from 2000 square feet to 1298 square feet will require some adjustments. The hardest thing to give…
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Another hot day!
Here we seat in our warm home with the air conditioner turned off. We called Bernie at Comfort Air to report that the temperature is rising steadily although the fan is running. After he had Dan go out to see if the outside unit was turning, (it wasn’t) he had me turn off the air…
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Hydrangeas in Bloom
I was out in the yard taking a video of our yard before we move. The mophead hydrangeas on the side of the house which we cannot see are fabulous this year. Too bad the only window on the north side of the house is frosted. Good thing I walked around the house to see…