{"id":26841,"date":"2017-12-12T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26841"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:05:14","slug":"happy-trails-part-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26841","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 62"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I anticipated that the pace of transition would quicken as we prepare to relocate from Amarillo to somewhere near our granddaughter, her parents and her brothers.<\/p>\n

I didn’t quite expect the feeling of anxiety that would come with the speeding up of that transition.<\/p>\n

Most of our belongings are stored away in Amarillo; the rest of them are stuffed into our recreational vehicle.<\/p>\n

And today, the painters went to work refreshing the interior of the house we used to call “home.” We don’t yet have a timeline on when to expect them to finish. The lead painter vowed to work extra hard to get it done before Christmas. I am in no position to question whether he can get it done.<\/p>\n

Anxiety? It’s not serious. It’s just a bit overwhelming — at least it is for me — to watch these men I’ve never seen before scurrying around our house taping windows, masking kitchen cabinets and laying butcher paper over every square inch of our floor.<\/p>\n

It seems like just yesterday that the house was where my wife and I hung our hats, where we relaxed with the joy of knowing the property was all ours.<\/p>\n

It’s still ours, but we now are calling another place “home” while we prepare for this next big challenge in our life together.<\/p>\n

Get a load of this, though: The painters tell us the house is going to look “so good, you won’t want to leave.”<\/p>\n

Uh, let me ponder that one.<\/p>\n

OK. I just did.<\/p>\n

Not a chance. Get to work, fellas.<\/p>\n\n

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I anticipated that the pace of transition would quicken as we prepare to relocate from Amarillo to somewhere near our granddaughter, her parents and her brothers. I didn’t quite expect the feeling of anxiety that would come with the speeding up of that transition. Most of our belongings are stored away in Amarillo; the rest … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 62<\/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-26841","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\/26841","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=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26842,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}