Moving Days

October 10^th The fun begins

We had spent the bigger part of six months packing and moving, so we did not think there was a lot left to do.  The house looked baron, and we had filled about 1/3 of our storage units with stuff, a 4 bedroom house is supposed to fit into one.  We began our final pack at about 6am and did not stop until 9pm, and it was just looking worse than it did.  Where did all of this stuff come from?  I took about 4 pickup loads to the storage, and it did not even put a dent in it.  I thought we might need some more boxes, so Michelle ran up to Uhaul and got there when they were leaving for the day, a near miss, we sure needed them.  Chicken from Popeye’s for dinner, they cooked it fresh for us.   We went to sleep exhausted.

October 11^th The Fun Continues; Another Day of Packing

We had loaded everything and took about 4 truck loads of garbage to the dumpster at the mini storage place.  Got the truck into the outside storage and loaded it up with outside stuff.   It fit and we were feeling ok, considering another 15 hour day. 

October 12^th Moving day

Up at 6 today, and went straight to work, packing, packing and more packing.  The movers from A1 showed up about 9, and they started loading.  Michelle went to find blankets to put in between the furniture once they started loading it into the unit.  It was not looking good when the movers began to pack the truck, so I called Michelle and asked her to stop at the mini storage and get another 10/10, there was one more available she drove home, about 2 minutes and looked at the truck and said, “your right, we need to get it.  She called the storage and someone had come in and rented it already, within 5 minutes! Had to go to plan B, we rented another outside storage area, and had to sort everything we had been putting into storage for the past 6 months into outside non climate controlled or inside climate controlled.  We got the truck back out, reinsured it, and started loading that unit with the stuff that could stand the heat.  By about 2:30 the movers were done, but we were not, a couple more trips to the mini storage.  Emily slept in the middle of the living room floor that night, and we had the only bed in the house.

October 12^th, Cleaning day

Up at five, and started cleaning after a couple of cups of coffee.  Start with the garage and go from there.  It does not look like a lot when there is nothing in the house, but it is.  Touch up all the nail holes, clean the base boards and scrub everything. The carpet people got to the house at about 11, we just kept cleaning: By the end of the day we were sore and exhausted, we left for the boat about 6:30.  We unloaded only what was really needed from the van and sat in the cockpit with a nice cocktail and a glass of wine and told each other how much we hurt.