Beginning A New Chapter

We’ve not published any updates on our doings here on the blog in a couple of months.

For those of you that have been following our small cabin in the woods adventure, pardon our absence from this side street in the electronic world.

The dynamics of the past couple of months have been quite intense. All our personal energies have necessarily been focused on finally arriving at the point where we are no longer making that long commute to the other end of the county. Finishing up has been a grind on us. That daily one hundred plus miles a day commute has been a grind on us.

We were about ground down by the grind.

We did it though!

We finally arrived at that hard fought for point in time!

It got to be some really hard going toward the end but we made it to the monumental leap!

It took nine months of finishing up down there. We moved into the cabin and became full-time small cabin dwellers on October 20, 2016. Down there, nine months … almost to the day … later, is now a finished chapter in our personal history.

Shirli and I are both officially retired.

The reality of this grand event has only just begun to settle upon us.

We are liking it. We are liking it a lot.

The thrust behind doing what we have done was to create a lifestyle that was simple and sustainable … a lifestyle devoid of the stress and mania associated with modern life lived on the hamster wheel where the runners are constantly running but getting nowhere in a hurry … a lifestyle that allows us to simply live and enjoy life at our leisurely pace … a lifestyle that allows us to do things that are important to us.

And here is the kicker in the deal … to do it all within the financial boundaries that most common working people have to work with and then live our retirement years comfortably on our small retirement income.

We have succeeded in doing what we set out to do!

What now?

We have a few cabin projects to take care of now that there is time to work on them. They will get done. It’s hard to imagine starting on any of them until we have taken a few days to unwind and decompress from the last part of that hard-uphill climb.

And now to chronicle a new chapter.