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Planning Ahead for a Disaster

10/27/2024

 
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The wildfire near our house (September 2022)

​The recent natural disasters across the globe, including the wildfires and floods in Portugal, have been a somber reminder of the importance of preserving important documents during such horrific events. Due to our move overseas, we devised a way to do this, and figured we’d share it with you.

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Update on that Health issue

9/1/2024

 
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​This a Jana update on my medical situation from last year. No worries, the news is good.

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Switching Telecommuncations providers

3/23/2024

 
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​​During our six years in Portugal, we have always had telecommunications and internet through MEO. Unfortunately, we recently needed to make a change. This blog discusses how that process played out. 

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Didn't See that Coming . . .

8/1/2023

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Life often throws you a curveball, as they say in baseball. In our case, it was a major medical issue and this post explains what we were facing this last year and why we've been blogging less than usual. 

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How to Resell Excess Solar Energy

7/3/2023

 
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​Hello, Harold here. My previous post discussed the logistics needed to install solar panels at our home. This one looks at what it takes to sell whatever excess energy you generate. Yes, in Portugal someone will pay you for the energy you’re generating. 

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Gardening In The Countryside

5/15/2022

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One of the decisions that factored into our house purchase was that we wanted a garden area of some sort. It didn’t matter if that was a container garden on a veranda or a full-sized one, outdoor space was important to us. I (Jana) don't think either of us realized how important that was until we'd live in apartments for four years. 

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Whole House Wood heating

2/15/2022

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​When we moved into our new country home, we tackled a number of new experiences. One of which was the wood-fired whole house heating system. This post is how that system works and what difficulties you might encounter if you have one of these in your house.

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New Adventures

1/29/2022

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The view from a nearby village

​So much has changed since our last post in May 2021. At that point we had no idea we would be moving out of Porto, but looking back things were already headed that way. Now we live in the Miranda do Corvo region (south of Coimbra) up on a mountain. How's that for a change?
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Where Should We Retire in Portugal?

1/24/2020

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BePortugal recently offered an overview of the various regions of Portugal in regards to retirement. Large city, smaller town or village, this country has them all. (Photo courtesy of BePortugal)
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A Busy Fall

12/8/2019

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Olá!
 It has been a while since our last post. It's been a bit busy, folks. Here's a few things that have been going on: 

1)  I (Jana) spent over five weeks back in the U.S. and have some thoughts about that trip which I'll share in a future post. 

2)  And then I had surgery on both my hands, which means typing (or pretty much anything else) has been on hold for a time. I'll be writing up a post on how that experience went which included an overnight stay at one of Porto's private hospitals. Meanwhile Harold has been been doing all the cooking and cleaning. ;-)

3)  We had our Portuguese wills and powers of attorney drawn up. There are significant differences between the US and Portuguese versions of these legal docs and we will be discussing those in a post, as well as the procedure for making this magic happen.

4)  We are currently in the process of setting up a Trust in the U.S. to handle what liquid assets are there as well as my intellectual property (I'm an author). Again, a post is definitely going to written about this process.
 
So much to write about. Hope you all have had a grand fall. It's definitely heading toward winter here.
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