They say that life is a moving target. They may have been talking about us as we are getting ready to move for the third time in two years. This, after having our longest stay in one house ever – 12.5 years. The closest to that was about 6 years. My father moved a lot and so have The Blond in the house and I since we have been married. She at least had a relatively stable home situation growing up. As to myself, I figure this will be about the 41st house in which I have lived.
Heck, we lived in four different houses in a community of about 800 in Western Pennsylvania where we lived probably a total of four years. With this move, we are staying in The Villages – where else! Now some of my little friends tell me that if I paid bills, I would not have to move so much. Well, I do hate to pay bills, as do most of us, but many times I just have itchy feet. I probably picked it up from my father as it seems natural to move. Other times, it just worked out for various reasons that we moved.
One thing that did happen during all these moves is that we became older. We tried like heck to avoid that, but with essentially no luck on that score. Thus, it has been decreed that there “SHALL BE NO MORE MOVES”. Probably a very reasonable decree which will be obeyed – I am certain? Yes, we are certain. Besides we are moving into a very nice neighborhood in the Lake Deaton Village. I have already found that the couple who live behind our new house also lived in Deerfield Beach, FL (move #35) in the same subdivision with over lapping years.
We never met there, but now we have something to talk about. There are three families from the Pittsburgh area in the neighborhood which gladdens The Blond as she grew up there. One of them even has an ex-father-in-law who lived in Harrisville, PA, a superb community of 600 where I went to part of the sixth grade, all of the seventh, and part of the 8th sf(Sorry, but it would give me a headache to figure out what number move that was. I have become older since then).
Then, after we determined to move, a very nice gentleman – and a terrific softball player- and his wife decided to move to our Lake Deaton neighborhood as well. We are looking forward to our former next door neighbors in The Villages moving there too. They are trying very hard, and we are rooting for them to succeed. In fact another former neighbor has purchased one in the same neighborhood. You can see that we are not the only ones who move!
One of my big chores after we move is how to let the guys know about Husbands United (a secret society). As you know I can’t tell them when or where the society meets (it’s a secret). I guess they will just have to become a member in the same manner as others do. Wish I could tell you how that works, but I can’t. It is a great organization in its protection of mankind in the never ending “relationships” with womankind.
Remind me to tell you some stories from the annals of Husbands United (a secret society). Naturally, I can only relate those where the statutes of limitation apply. However, that is not always easy to determine as womankind does not necessarily follow a logical statute.
The stories are full of pathos and are heart rending at times, but good normally wins out!
Barry Evans is a Villager and writes about life in The Villages for Villages-News.com
