{"id":22970,"date":"2017-07-09T02:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T02:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22970"},"modified":"2017-07-09T02:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T02:41:46","slug":"happy-trails-part-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22970","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We had hoped it would be the Mother of All Garage Sales.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a first cousin once removed, or some such thing. Still, I rate it a success, but not the wing-dinging rousing<\/em> success my wife and I had sought.<\/p>\n

We had hoped to sell a big and beautiful entertainment center. We purchased it about 30 years ago in Beaumont, Texas. Then we hauled it way up yonder to the Texas Panhandle in January 1995. A neighbor came by this afternoon and said, “I wish I could find a place for that,” to which I replied, “I do, too” wish he<\/em> could find a place for it.<\/p>\n

Then he talked himself into snapping a picture of it and sending it to his wife. He left and said he’d call later after taking care of some errands. We chatted a couple of hours later and it turned out that his TV is too big to fit in the centerpiece of the entertainment center.<\/p>\n

No deal. Damn!<\/em><\/p>\n

But no sweat. The furniture piece is now ensconced in a charitable organization warehouse and it will be peddled to someone who can use it.<\/p>\n

Our garage sale is over. It’s likely our final such event before we pull up our stakes and head southeast toward the greater Dallas\/Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n

First things first.<\/p>\n

We’ve got to find a place to store the worldly goods we have left in our possession. We have to do a couple of things to the house we’ve called home for 21 years. We have to contact a Realtor. Then we put our crib on the market … and hit the road in our RV.<\/p>\n

Our retired life is unfolding in increments. We take one step at a time. Still, our retired life today cleared a big hurdle.<\/p>\n

Now, for the next one.<\/p>\n\n

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We had hoped it would be the Mother of All Garage Sales. It turned out to be a first cousin once removed, or some such thing. Still, I rate it a success, but not the wing-dinging rousing success my wife and I had sought. We had hoped to sell a big and beautiful entertainment center. … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 30<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920,4058],"class_list":["post-22970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22971,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}