What's next?" In my thinking out loud mode." Do I really want to move again..what a pain that can be, not only the physical aspect of doing it, thinking about trying to remember where all the little things are will be annoying. Guess it will be worse if we put it off. The truth of the matter is that it is so beautiful here and we see so much everyday that nature has provided but the winters are a tad too long now for Bob, who will be 80 this October, he feels like he has to cut wood for the fireplace and do all the ranch physical labor that he did in his childhood. The house is beautiful and way to large for me to keep up properly. Don't have the energy I used to have and the desire to see it look sparkly isn't enough for me to expend all the effort only to have a few days go by and see my effort was in vain. Where in hell does all the dust come from anyway?

The plan so far is to sell the house and buy a much much smaller home in Ft. Collins where there is still winter, but much shorter. It is always at least 10 or 15 degrees warmer there than here. Summers will be hot, not looking forward to that, but if we build another tiny house here on the river, we can spend the summers here. I will like to have a garden that I can count on, the altitude here of 8000 ft. makes planting anything a gamble. I think Fort Collins altitude is slightly under 5000". It is a charming town but in comparison  the traffic will be horrendous. We got spoiled having no traffic at all. Trade offs everywhere. I know we don't want to go back to CA where everything is so expensive and the taxes are high. Bob doesn't want to go back with me to Michigan, I still love it there because it's my history, I can't blame him. For history he would rather stay here on the ranch where he was born. Well, after we put the house on the market, we'll see how it all pans out.