The Rambler


Hi, I'm Phil Schmidt, and welcome to my blog! Here I share my ponderings, wanderings and doings.

Recent Posts

Why Did We Do This?

I wanted to escape mowing and shoveling!

One very cold morning back when I was in high school, probably it was in January, Mike and I met early at the high school to go for a pre-track-season run. It was tens of degrees below zero - not a temperature that most would consider appropriate for running. But we …

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Settling and Adjusting

So THIS is what retirement looks like?

As we've been relaxing into the new house, continuing to unpack and rearrange, life has been settling down some, and we are adjusting to our new normal. Being settled doesn't mean being sedentary though - we have been busy.

Pretty much as soon as we got here I plugged into the …

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Back Into a House - Full Circle

Final weeks in the camper, and now housed!

A mere eight weeks ago we made the decision to pivot from nomadic RV life to stationary home living, and now the transformation is complete. We closed on a house a couple weeks ago and promptly moved in. By the end of the day after closing we'd cleared out our …

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