Retirement in Fla!

[bearngg00se]

Well we finally dusted off the bank book and, given our age, we decided to spend a little on ourselves.
As you know were not much on travel or vacations so we decided to purchase a small home in Florida, yes Florida. This means only one return flight a year and we can go at our own pace once there and if we feel like it we can take the odd day trip.
It is a 2 bedroom, or three if you convert the small den, eat in kitchen, small dining room, good size family room and living room.
The house includes a 25 foot 75 horsepower (inboard) boat, nothing special but it only has 230 hours on it and we are on a causeway with a dock and boat house. This was included in the sale and we also bought the estates car, a 2004 Ford Tempest, 18,000 miles on it.
The home was for sale due to a death and the wife is going to live with her son in Chicago.
The house is on the outskirts of Palm Beach about a 5 minute drive to downtown. We took possession last Monday. You all now have a winter vacation spot. Picture is attached.

Take care, B & g

[Lddrizzt]

COngrats on the new place! Now you can have Northern and Southern Gamerooms!!

[Tony Junior]

Fantastic news, Bearn!

I think I just turned green! Wanna adopt me?

[H20Dreams]

[luckydog]

I've been in Florida 28 years, you couldn't drag me back to Chicago

[slotter]

I can't see the pic, though. It acts as if I'm logging into Yahoo. Is that the right link??

[scooby_doo_m2002]

thats what I am wandering...

[slothappy144]

Congrats no picture though.

[Sid]

Congratulations Snow Birds!!!

[bearngg00se]

lol - sorry about the pic
kind of ruined the joke!

(apologies to my friends and family already living in Fla this storm season!)

[TeeDubya]

lol - sorry about the pic
kind of ruined the joke!

(apologies to my friends and family already living in Fla this storm season!)

Yeah, rub it in!

Welcome to Palm Beach County. You're in, you're it, you're one of us.

[birdbrain]

i and tw are just west of your dog, LD is slightly nw of you

[bearngg00se]

This was one of those days when I wish it wasn't a joke! Those frosty little snow flakes were dancin' past my window this morning...grrrrrrrr
Looks like its going to be another looooooooooooooooong winter. I'm going to have to load up the wood stove tonight to keep my toes from freezing on the floor!

[Tulsa]

Wow! Snow already?

YUK!

[Tony Junior]

Egad, snow! Thank you God that I live in the south!

[Sid]

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

thankfully its still in the 30's here (celcius that is)

[bearngg00se]

yes, it will happen for a few mornings now until the snow decides to stick to the ground. Luckily, the days warm up to around 12C. We'll be stomping around in our mukluks in a few weeks. There is a little snow stuck on rooftops this morning, but it should be gone as soon as the sun gets a little higher in the sky.
We took a trip down south in July to southern Ontario and spent two days in a hotel when the humid X topped 50C. The only time we see 50 on the thermo is minus 50 in Dec/Jan/Feb & first part of March!!

[Tony Junior]

You have my sympathy, Bearn! I'm a hot weather man myself. Just can't take the cold.

[slothappy144]

I grew up in DA UP and summer was the best two weeks of the year! I forget sometimes that da UP is down south for my Canadian friends. Actually Toronto is south of the 45th I think so that would be like Florida to Manitobans.
being north of the 45th the means we are closer to the north pole than we are to the equator.
I moved to South west Michigan, we have several months of summer now.