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Not My Neighborhood But in Kansas

With clear BLUE SKIES abounding today, small town america blew the Tornado Sirens for TESTING.  The winds are still gyrating.  Windy this month.    

The sirens blew yesterday evening for REAL.  TORNADOES in the area.  The Sheriff drove his truck down the street blowing his siren as the in-town sirens were tardy to sound off.  We were in the front yard unloading some items from a moving truck before heading over to Manhattan to return the rented vehicle we had used to haul items from our rock house garage to a storage unit and RETIREMENT COTTAGE.

After three days of clearing out our Garage we were actually VERY tired.  

QUICKLY we took shelter in the cottage cellar and waited out the storm.  If we had headed back to Manhattan when we had planned, we would have drove directly into the storm.  SOMETIMES plans are best altered.    

Waited it out.  Given the clear.  Drove the moving truck across the Flint Hills with extreme winds, ate supper then safely returned HOME.  

The Kansas wind continues to howl.  Makes driving difficult.  Kansas is having strong winds and fires.  Tornadoes.

As we were working at clearing out the garage, I kept thinking that we have packed and stacked and shuffled and packed and stacked and shuffled so many times that I am really tired of doing this.  

TIRED.  

I have items to polish up, price and take to a booth to sell.  I will do the HAPPY DANCE when the garage is completely cleared out.  Truly.  That's if I can still stand when the garage is cleared out.  Muscles are sore.   Muscles are weak.  Muscles seem to not want to move as well as when I was young.  SO young.  I feel my age.  61.  We DON'T want to be doing this shuffling thang when in our 70s if we are blessed to live till then.  The THOUGHT of a dumpster comes to mind.  Just a thought.  NOT SO SURE it's a good one.    

I have a awful, hacking cough.  Taking Emergen-C.  Still believing this product helps keep me healthier.  When a cold starts coming on, I now take the C's.  It seems to help keep colds at bay.  Still have a cold/allergies to dust/asthma, but this seems to help stop the lingering effects of a cold.  I sure don't need this challenge when we have to move ahead on our FIRE RECOVERY.  Already too much going on to have a rotten head cold.  

Should have started the C's a few months ago when the weather started cooling off.  It got me this go round when it was SPRING LIKE weather changing to cold with a cycling of naughty to nice to naughty weather.  

GOT ME.

During the rest of MARCH I've got to gather up items to turn loose of.  Am hoping to have this behind me in the near future.  It's been an ongoing job that I need to retire from.

TOSSING IT ALL IN A DUMPSTER might be the best solution to an ongoing saga, but then it would haunt me for the next 50 years that I should have been more resourceful and sold the goodies.  

OR WOULD IT?

I just need to retire from this phase of LIFE.  Okay...shall see what I can do about this.  If I think that this is a new assignment perhaps it will help me heal.  MOVING is never easy.  RETIREMENT is a horse by a different color.  Heeeeeee. 

Excuse me.....this is a zebra.  RETIREMENT will be different for sure.

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