Gunshots, Drones, and a Big Announcement

I’m not sure which hunting season it is currently, but I’ve heard more gunshots in the last couple of weeks than I ever did back home. I know we’re out in the country a bit, but it freaks me out. Not as much as it does Duke, the golden retriever staying with us, but still. I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to it.

We were also been pestered by drones this week. I couldn’t figure out the sound I was hearing and it was driving the dogs nuts, so I went out to see two drones and they were flying over and around the neighborhood. It wasn’t just our dogs that were bothered either, all the dogs in the neighborhood were barking up a storm. It was just the one day though, thank goodness, because it was a really annoying.

I know I had planned on posting my book reviews for every blog, but I didn’t finish a single book this week, despite having four of them started. I have a really good reason though.

Drumroll please.

Tennessee and I have picked our wedding date and it’s on my birthday!

We only have a short time to get everything done and there is a lot of planning and things to do even though it’s going to be a small wedding. Tennessee has a bunch of friends over in Chattanooga, too many to invite to the ceremony, so we are planning a reception afterward at a favorite queer hangout in the city for all those we can’t invite to the wedding itself.

We’ll also plan a reception back in Colorado for all my chosen family and friends back there, hopefully in late May or early June. I wish we could invite more people, but the venue won’t hold that many…literally as it’s the back deck of our friends’ house.

We were hoping to wait until my move was officially permanent, but it has been six months and nothing. We can’t wait anymore. We decided to plan around the worst-case scenario and then hope for the best.

In this case, the worst would be they deny my request and I have to go back into the office in Colorado. If that happens, I’ll return to my mother’s house and begin the process to retire. I’ll search for a remote job or one within commuting distance to Dunlap and put in my paperwork to go on leave without pay for the final few months until my retirement date of December 28, 2024.

Financially it would be better if I didn’t retire yet but some things are more important than money and being here with Tennessee as her wife is my priority. My agency needs me more than I need them to be honest, so it’ll be their loss if they don’t get this figured out. I’ll be sad to go, and money will be tighter than I’m used to, but life is too short.

It’s funny, after my divorce I swore I’d never get married again. The universe, the Divine, or whatever, knew better though and I can’t wait to be Mrs. again!

Be well my friends.