What did you do today 2026

Spring skiing. Did 22.5k vertical yesterday and 11k today. It’s the last skiing for the season and the conditions were pretty good. We’ll likely make this a yearly tradition.

Now enjoying a cold one with beautiful views of the mountain.

And DS and I registered for a Gran Fondo this September. Cycling season is about to start.
 
Waking up in a boutique hotel in a historic town 3 hours from home. I footed the bill for a weekend family outing to celebrate my son-in-law birthday. Everybody had a good time.

Hotel and dinner charges were a low 4 figure. The money is well-spent as any travel trip I was talking to them about will have to be postponed till next year due to their lack of free time.
 
Yesterday I researched summer programs for students. My son confirmed they will come spend a couple of months with us over the summer. He’ll work from home and I get to spend time with my grandson. This is the best news ever and I’m stoked.
 
Made breakfast for DGS (the one he always requests: scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese, plus toast)
Getting ready to take pup to the doggie daycare/boarding, will start packing later. Head to the airport 430 am tomorrow, early flight to Hawaii.
 
Booked a second romantic getaway for the fall, took the dogs for a long walk with the better-half and then hit the "File" button on TurboTax before we celebrated with popsicles.
 
Attended all three days of the 41st annual Tucson Folk Festival, a free community event with five stages that finished today. The weather was outstanding with a nice breeze during the day, and beautiful sunsets. Most of the musicians were local, but the songwriters' competition drew finalists from all over the country with the top two winners performing on Saturday night.
 
Today, I celebrate 20 years as a member of ER.org (19 of them as a moderator). When I first joined, I had an idea that I wanted to retire earlier than normal, but no real, concrete plan for doing so. I also had no particular expertise in that area. However, I was immediately accepted as a fellow traveler on the path to retirement and treated well by those who were light years ahead of me in both planning and execution. Since then, I have been educated by those who spent hours upon hours mastering the nuts and bolts of early retirement, I have been inspired by the stories of difficulties overcome and milestones achieved, and I have been greatly amused by the wit and humor of so many of you. But, most of all, I feel that I have found my place in a group of people who, while they may live very different lives than I do, have freely shared of their wisdom, analysis and experience. The camaraderie here is palpable, and I thank you all for that.
 
Went to the high country and hiked. Always fun to find that beautiful spot to have lunch and take in nature. Got home late afternoon and got an old seed cleaning machine ready for a guy to come get it tomorrow. It is called a Clipper a wooden framed grain/seed cleaning machine. I have no use for it so a rancher about 70 miles away wants it to clean some oats.
 
Ordered 5.5 ton of small boulders and 7 cubic yards of topsoil for my shoreline project. Getting delivered tomorrow. Lots of shoveling ahead.
 
Starting an interior project today. It's not actually a remodel, but rather fixing what the previous owner did when they swapped windows in an upstairs bedroom and correctly finishing what they should have done.

They just removed the old windows, replaced them with smaller units, then threw some drywall up that wasn't the same thickness as the old lath + plaster where the rest of the old windows used to be. They did a half-a$$ job mudding the seams (I don't think they even used tape, as every seam is cracked) then they sprayed some texture mud and then paint on the wall to try to cover up the shoddy workmanship.

I don't know if they hired somebody cheap, or tried to do it themselves, but the results weren't pretty. There are three bedrooms upstairs, and I've re-done two of those rooms, and today I start the final room project. The house was built around 1910, and moved to the current location in 1940, according to what the previous owners told us at closing when we bought it.

There is no insulation in any of the exterior walls, so after ripping out the patchwork drywall and all of the plaster and lath on the exterior walls of that room, I'll add wiring for a couple of additional receptacles and a wall-mounted light fixture. Then I'll add an inch of Styrofoam insulation between the studs, use the old lath strips to fur-out the studs so I can add 1/2" drywall. That should bring the wall thickness out to where it will work with the existing actual 1-inch X actual 10-inch baseboards. The studs are actual 2X4s, so when I add back in the lath, the wall thickness is 4-1/2 inches, hence the reason I'm adding an inch of Styrofoam first before I add in the R-13 fiberglass insulation.

After wiring, but before the Styrofoam and the fiberglass, I'll caulk around those replacement windows, as they were just nailed in by a half-dozen nails in the other rooms with a lot of air gaps around them. Then I'll install the Styrofoam before I add the fiberglass. Hopefully this will cut down on the noise transmission as well as keep the room warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.

Photos to follow once I get started...
 
We're spending two nights with daughter and family, in the new home. First time! The bonus is that we go to soccer lessons for the GS.
 
One month into the new house. A bedroom chair and coffee table arrive Thursday which brings us down to only needing a sofa table in the great room. The house is looking good and we feel at home. The pups love their new backyard. We love our mountain views. Neighbors are chill. Friendly, but give you your space too.
It rained and hailed today so I even got to use my spin bike in the new exercise room.
 
Gumby said:
Today, I celebrate 20 years as a member of ER.org (19 of them as a moderator). When I first joined, I had an idea that I wanted to retire earlier than normal, but no real, concrete plan for doing so. I also had no particular expertise in that area. However, I was immediately accepted as a fellow traveler on the path to retirement and treated well by those who were light years ahead of me in both planning and execution. Since then, I have been educated by those who spent hours upon hours mastering the nuts and bolts of early retirement, I have been inspired by the stories of difficulties overcome and milestones achieved, and I have been greatly amused by the wit and humor of so many of you. But, most of all, I feel that I have found my place in a group of people who, while they may live very different lives than I do, have freely shared of their wisdom, analysis and experience. The camaraderie here is palpable, and I thank you all for that.
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Well put.
I feel much the same, after 16 years here as a member. I had already been retired for nine years when I found it, and becoming a member seemed so natural.
As you implied, one of the absolute best parts is the ability to find people who not only know about what you want to learn, but are actually experts in it. What a place!
 
Today I walked down to the river to check out the flooding.

For reference, here's what it looked like back in autumn:

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Today the water's a little deeper and moving a little faster...

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There's a paved path going down to the water so people can launch rafts for whitewater rafting. Now, about 20 feet of that path is underwater:

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I'd guess the water's about 3-4 feet deep where the paved part of the path ends.
 
Went to the Gulfport/Biloxi airport to welcome home 35 veterans from their 2 night Honors Flight to Washington DC. About 400 of us there thanking them for their service. Large Veterans Home in Biloxi along with National Cemetery. An honor for us to do this.
 
Not much but biking riding. Was a beautiful day was lazy and eat too much.
 
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