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Year 5, Day 40, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 6/9/2025. The Wellington – This morning we visited The Nashua National Fish Hatchery. This hatchery is one of the oldest national fish hatcheries still operating today. It was established in 1898. Programs at the hatchery support Atlantic salmon and landlocked salmon. They also support American shad andContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 40 – The Wellington – Nashua National Fish Hatchery and back to Rockaway, NJ”

Year 5, Day 39, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 6/8/2025. The Wellington – Stayed in Nashua, New Hampshire last night and headed to Rye, New Hampshire after breakfast. Rye, New Hampshire is located on the Atlantic Ocean in Rockingham County. It has eight miles of coast line which is the longest in NH. New Hampshire hasContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 39 – The Wellington – Isles of Shoals tour and Star Island”

Year 5, Day 38, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 6/7/2025. The Wellington – After breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rockaway, NJ we picked up my brother Manuel. It was a rainy foggy long 206 mile drive to Wilmington, Vermont located in southern Vermont from Rockaway, New Jersey. We passed through the historical downtown areaContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 38 – The Wellington – Rockaway, NJ to Nashua, NH via VT, 43 states down, sibling get together”

Year 5, Day 37, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 6/6/2025. The Wellington – Memories of PA into NJ over the Dingman’s bridge to Wantage. Then lunch with friends. Of course no pictures boohoo. Have to describe us. Brenda is sweet, happy, energetic, loving, great friend, thin, looks younger everyday, and fun to be around. David isContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 37 – The Wellington – Dingmans Bridge, visiting with friends in Wantage”

Year 5, Day 36, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 6/5/2025. The Wellington – Last day of school for the boys. Julianna’s 8th grade graduation. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/43TVM4a Advanced Clinicals Dark Spot Moisturizing Cream: This stuff works. I use it every morning. I keepContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 36 – The Wellington – Boys last day of school, Julianna 8th grade graduation”

Year 5, Day 35, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 6/4/2025. The Wellington – Busy day in PA – Mall, Olive Garden with Julianna, and flag football practice with Joshua. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/43TVM4a Advanced Clinicals Dark Spot Moisturizing Cream: This stuff works. I useContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 35 – The Wellington – Busy day in PA – Mall, Olive Garden, flag football”

Year 5, Day 34, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 6/3/2025. The Wellington – Driving Interstate 68 through Maryland there is no wind. The windmills are not moving. The hills and valleys of Maryland are beautiful. Interstate 68 is also called the National Freeway. We arrived in time to attend Jacob’s soccer scrimmage. Things to ponder today! HaveContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 34 – The Wellington – Interstate 68 WV through MD to soccer scrimmage”

Year 5, Day 33, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 6/2/2025. The Wellington – Heading northeast to PA, NJ and NH. Back home the bees are very happy. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/43TVM4a Advanced Clinicals Dark Spot Moisturizing Cream: This stuff works. I use it everyContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 33 – The Wellington – Northeast bound”

Year 5, Day 32, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 6/1/2025. The Wellington – Broom mop wall hanger is hung in laundry center. It is amazing how much control our phone has in our lives. You can open and close your garage doors. You can see and talk to people at your home. You can start yourContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 32 – The Wellington – Laundry center broom hanger, phone swiss army knife of technology”

Year 5, Day 31, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 5/31/2025. The Wellington – Clean up day. Dorothy the Roomba has joined Miss Piggy. She is now cleaning the right hand side of the main level every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Roombas keep our floors super clean and shiny. This man was at the intersection byContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 31 – The Wellington – Clean up day, Dorothy the Roomba joined Miss Piggy”

Year 5, Day 30, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/30/2025. The Wellington – Finishing up the trim in both the office and the other main floor bedroom. Soon we will be setting those rooms up. You can always tell when you are coming to the end of building a new house. The tools start moving toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 30 – The Wellington – Julianna 8th grade light of Christ award for respect, trim in main level office and bedroom”

Year 5, Day 29, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 5/29/2025. The Wellington – YIKES – Had to book another one. New cruise line and new places to see. We have never been on a P&O cruise and have never been to Iceland, Scotland, or Ireland. Couldn’t resist the price. Things to ponder today! Have to leave youContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 29 – The Wellington – P&O cruise booked to Iceland, Ireland, and Scotland”

Year 5, Day 28, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 5/28/2025. The Wellington – The hardwood flooring is down in the last bedroom that will have hardwood flooring. There is only three places that still need hardwood flooring put down. It includes the kitchen pantry and the landing at the bottom of the stairs to the upperContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 28 – The Wellington – Hardwood flooring day”

Year 5, Day 27, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 5/27/2025. The Wellington – After the overindulging weekend heading back to an exercise class seemed very prudent. The office/bedroom across from the laundry center is being completed. We are looking at booking another cruise. Where, when, and what cruise line should we do? Things to ponder today! HaveContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 27 – The Wellington – Back to exercise class, office/bedroom finishing and hardwood floor work”

Year 5, Day 26, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/26/2025. The Wellington – Happy Birthday Julianna and Happy Memorial day everyone. It was an outside workday here at the Williamsburg. Top soil pile moved around and grass seed planted. We did have a yummy cheesecake treat in the afternoon. Thanks Marley! Things to ponder today! Have toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 26 – The Wellington – Happy Memorial day, Happy birthday Julianna, Yard work day”

Year 5, Day 25, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 5/25/2025. The Wellington – Family Memorial day Celebration a day early. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/43iIfTw Mop and Broom wall mounted holder: Love these to keep mops, brooms, dust pans, etc. off the floor. This wayContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 25 – The Wellington – Family memorial day celebration a day early”

Year 5, Day 24, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 5/24/2025. The Wellington – The dryer was stacked on the washer in the new Laundry center and hooked up. We over estimated how much hardwood flooring we needed by three boxes. Lowes is great to purchase through because they take almost everything back. A $399.69 credit atContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 24 – The Wellington – Laundry center complete”

Year 5, Day 23, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/23/2025. The Wellington – Grouted the laundry center floor tile. Cut, painted, hung, puttied, sanded, and caulked the baseboard trim in that area. Painted, puttied, added knobs, and added casement around the laundry double doors. Moving the washing machine back in and adding the stacking hardware wasContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 23 – The Wellington – Laundry center tile grouted and trimmed, Vultures”

Year 5, Day 22, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 5/22/2025. The Wellington – Laundry area work day. Before work started we made sure all our laundry was done. We will be without a washer and dryer for a few days. Trying to avoid going to the the laundromat. Remembering those cabin days with fondness !! HaContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 22 – The Wellington – Laundry closet area tile, and doors”

Year 5, Day 21, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 5/21/2025. The Wellington – No tornado last night. Just lots of wind, and rain. But we were prepared with our under stair shelter. Next house a real shelter! Today it is a sunny gorgeous day. Steve mowed the back field and put up two closet doors. WeContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 21 – The Wellington – Closet doors”

Year 5, Day 20, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 5/20/2025. The Wellington – This train is on the same schedule as my gym class. Another dirt pile is gone. We spread the dirt to fill in over the septic area. Yard is looking good. Tornado watches are up for this evening again. Everyone is really concernedContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 20 – The Wellington – More yard work and another dirt pile smoothed out, tornado watch cleaned out under stairs”

Year 5, Day 19, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/19/2025. The Wellington – Happy Birthday Joshua. Loved our video chat today. You are such a good host. The home tour both in and out was so much fun. Looks as though you are having an awesome birthday. Wish we could be there to hug you, butContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 19 – The Wellington – Happy Birthday Joshua, The deck supports are painted”

Year 5, Day 18, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 5/18/2025. The Wellington – Happy Birthday Jenna. Have a great day! We went out to Bob Evans for breakfast and celebrated you. It was a glorious day that you were born. Bob Evans is right where highway 27 in Somerset is closed due to Friday night’s tornado.Continue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 18 – The Wellington – Happy Birthday Jenna, Bob Evans, Bourbon Brood, Hummingbirds, Balcony ready to use.”

Year 5, Day 17, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 5/17/2025. The Wellington – Yesterday evening we picked up the Plate Compactor. It is really heavy and took three guys to load it into the truck. Getting it off the truck took the mini excavator and some chains. Look at this Steve needs a step ladder toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 17 – The Wellington – Picked up Plate Compactor, tornado set down ten miles away, father daughter dance, balcony floor stained, worms are back video”

Year 5, Day 16, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 5/16/2025. The Wellington – Rainy day so it is back to working on the last bedroom/office across from the laundry area. The door is up and the room is spackled, sanded and primed. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s AmazonContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 16 – The Wellington – Middle bedroom/office ready for paint”

Year 5, Day 15, “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 5/15/2025. The Wellington – The pavers have been delivered. Look at the number of pavers. 3,730 of them!!! And Steve will pick up and lay all of them. Balcony floor staining started. Spencer is Patriot of the month in Preschool Things to ponder today! Have to leave youContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 15 – The Wellington – Pavers delivered, balcony floor staining, Spencer Patriot of the month”

Year 5, Day 14, “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 5/14/2025. The Wellington – The spackling is completed in the middle bedroom. There are a few closets that still need to be spackled and the garage. We are getting to the end of this job. In the afternoon we picked up some organic hardwood mulch and placedContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 14 – The Wellington – Middle bedroom spackling completed, mulched front, setup front walk, crop drone, Bore bee trap set”

Year 5, Day 13, “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 5/13/2025. The Wellington – Today is the day of personal rehab. My motivation is back and I started exercise classes. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3ZqUJpK Stackable Under Sink Organizer with Sliding Basket: Want under your sinkContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 13 – The Wellington – Personal Fitness reset day”

Year 5, Day 12, “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/12/2025. The Wellington – Second bedroom spackling We are going to trap those bees now. Marley’s Graduation. Congratulations Marley. Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking. Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/3ZqUJpK Stackable Under Sink Organizer with Sliding Basket: Want under your sink toContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 12 – The Wellington – Second bedroom spackling, Marley’s graduation”

Year 5, Day 11, “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 5/11/2025. The Wellington – Happy Mothers Day everyone. And a special love filled mother’s day wish to my daughter Jenna, my daughter-in-law Bobi, and Grand daughter Reina. Without my children I would not be a mother today. No fur babies in this house. Woke up to theContinue reading “Living the Dream Year 5 Day 11 – The Wellington – Mother’s Day planting”