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| 1 | 1977-08-20 | Peg Haugen and Ray Ostrander marry in La Crosse. Ray bought the engagement ring that May. |
| 2 | 1986-06-27 | They buy the house on Hawkstone Drive in Madison for $84,500. The mortgage is paid off in November 2009. |
| 3 | 2004-08-13 | They buy the cabin on Skein Lake near Minocqua for $212,000. |
| 4 | 2011-03-19 | Peg, newly keeping everything in the app, buys a new Honda CR-V. It is traded in eleven years later. |
| 5 | 2012-06-14 | Two weeks in Norway (Bergen, Oslo, Lofoten) on Peg's new passport. They bring home an enamel pendant and a painting. |
| 6 | 2012-09-18 | New metal roof on the cabin, the first of nine big cabin projects. |
| 7 | 2014-02-09 | Peg's mother, Dorothy Haugen, dies at 87 in La Crosse. Peg inherits her engagement ring, pearls, locket and a watercolor of the home farm. |
| 8 | 2015-03-17 | Ray is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and starts metformin. |
| 9 | 2016-01-29 | Ray retires from Brennecke & Voss Engineering after 38 years. |
| 10 | 2016-12-08 | After the first jewelry appraisal, they take out a valuables policy with Marrowstone. |
| 11 | 2017-06-09 | Peg retires after 31 years as librarian at Tamarack Hill Elementary. |
| 12 | 2017-08-12 | Ray buys the sapphire ring for their 40th anniversary. |
| 13 | 2017-09-16 | Ray buys the F-150. |
| 14 | 2018-05-11 | The cabin kitchen is remodeled, the largest of the cabin projects. |
| 15 | 2018-06-29 | Dr. Niemczyk, their doctor since 1989, retires. Both move to Dr. Raghavan that August. |
| 16 | 2018-10-22 | Gus, the golden retriever, dies at 13. |
| 17 | 2019-02-16 | Peg slips on the cabin steps and breaks her left wrist. A plate goes in five days later. |
| 18 | 2019-05-14 | New wills and the Ostrander Family Revocable Trust are signed. Both houses are deeded into the trust. |
| 19 | 2019-06-08 | Birdie, a yellow Lab puppy, comes home. |
| 20 | 2019-09-12 | Ray has a stent placed after chest pain while raking. Twelve weeks of cardiac rehab follow. |
| 21 | 2020-04-01 | Peg's Medicare starts and the school district plan ends. They spend most of the pandemic summer at the cabin. |
| 22 | 2021-03-03 | Ray's older brother Don dies of pancreatic cancer in Wausau. |
| 23 | 2021-06-25 | The screened porch at the cabin is finished. |
| 24 | 2021-08-20 | New roof on the Madison house. |
| 25 | 2022-05-14 | The CR-V is traded in at 118,412 miles for a 2022 RAV4 Hybrid. |
| 26 | 2022-11-08 | Ray's right knee is replaced. |
| 27 | 2023-03-16 | Ray gets hearing aids. |
| 28 | 2023-04-22 | Lorraine Pfeiffer, Peg's closest friend and fellow librarian, dies. |
| 29 | 2023-10-10 | The trust is amended to add the youngest grandchild and to say what happens to the cabin. |
| 30 | 2024-03-12 | Peg has cataract surgery on the right eye, and on the left four weeks later. |
| 31 | 2024-09-17 | The jewelry is reappraised. The valuables schedule is updated that December, except for one ring. |
| 32 | 2024-10-08 | A standby generator goes in at the cabin. |
| 33 | 2025-06-20 | The shed at the cabin becomes a bunkhouse for the grandchildren. |
| 34 | 2026-05-30 | Ray turns 73, so 2026 is his first year of required IRA withdrawals. |
| 35 | 2026-08-28 | Hannah, the oldest grandchild, starts at UW-Madison and comes for Sunday dinner. |