Now that the hubbub is starting to slow down as we inch toward our move on April 2nd, the stress level is diminishing quite a bit, and things are becoming clearer – as for example, with all that I’ve been stressing over to “get done” by the time of the move, it has all come about and my fretting didn’t speed things up any at all…! Fancy that…! And some of the things I worried about never came to pass, so there is that, too…! And now that I have some fret-free time happening, my mind is grasping a truth that I’d not thought about before, and it’s kind of informative – As of April the 2nd we will be moving out of a home we “owned” into an apartment that we’re sharing with time – We went out on a limb as newly-weds of 4 years and bought our first home in 1965 – It cost $24,500, and the down payment was $5,000…! In today’s finances that was peanuts, but for us married only 4 years it was humongous, enough to the point that our friend Bob Everingham loaned us the money for the down – It took us however many years to pay that paltry sum back, but for us it was a life-altering debt – It also started us out as home-owners…! We lived in the Beverly Place home for 42 years until our move in 2007 to Eugene – The photo is of us at 7:00 in the AM as we’re leaving 1718 for the last time on our way north – In the 42 years of making that our home, it had increased in value til when we sold it it went for multiple-multiple times that original price, enough so that when we bought here in Eugene we outright paid the asking price with a tidy sum left over for savings – In a couple of weeks we will no longer be home-owners, but there is something freeing in that state of mind…