Saturday January 4th~

 Every memory created is a chapter in the
 book of our lives, a story worth retelling...

One of the many things I love about the life I share with 

Arvid is that you never know what we will be doing next. 

 The good thing (sometimes) is that Arvid tends to get extremely

 restless, and before I know it we have something going on.

Right now he's focused on making a deal of some sort 

with a friend of ours.  This is all trading.  Arvid loves anything

 and everything that has to do with trades.  Sometimes I don't think

 it really matters what he trades for, as long as he can trade.

I have seen him do his magic, and I will never doubt him. 

 He once traded a stamp book collection with some cash for

 a condo in Montana.  Yes, we had a condo in Montana. We

 kept it for a while and when the time was right we traded 

sold/traded it back to the guy we originally traded for it.

The biggest trade he has done to this day was to trade 

for 2 hotels in Branson.  No cash was involved in this 

trade.  We traded two condos we had in Fort Lauderdale

at the time, and a ton of personal items.  We ended 

up with 2 hotels in Branson.  Best deal ever made.  

 

Had it not been for this trade we never would

 have "discovered" Branson.  This started out with 

Arvid going to one of his trade meetings.  We lived in 

Chicago at the time (summer) so going to Branson

 for the meeting was a short drive so a must do.

I was out checking out the sights in Branson when I met 

up with Arvid for lunch he said, "how would you like to own

 two hotels?"  I looked at him and said, "we've never done 

anything like this before.  Sounds good to me."  We became 

owners of two hotels in Branson.  The rest is history.

Arvid so wants to do a trade right now that he has even

volunteered to go and look at some vacant land for someone 

else.  We take pictures and I email it to the interested party.

  If that person likes what the see (just bush) then we may

 have a three way deal.   Arvid gets to get rid of something he

 does not want, he gets to have something he wants as do the

 other 2 parties involved.  Not as complicated as it sounds.

In the meantime we get to spend the day together driving 

around going places we have not been to.  Do I always find 

this ideal?  Not really, but yesterday I had nothing else 

to do so it sounded like a good time and it was.

What I don't miss about Branson is the cold.  When

 we got there in 2016t hat winter that was just about to 

begin was not mild.  It was also Sniff's first time seeing

 snow.  I always wondered what he thought about it?

Here in Fort Myers it's a cold start of the day,

 but this being the Sunshine State, you know it will warm

 during the day.  The sun is shining and the skies are blue. 

 Today there is a Music and Seafood Festival  by the 

park next to us.  Hopefully we make it there.

The most precious memories in my

 heart are the ones we created together...

~Nadiya~