I was awake by 3:30 this morning and I laid in bed as long as I could stand it and finally got up about 15 minutes later. Once the coffeepot was on, I started up the laptop and finished my posts from Wednesday and Thursday.
While we were eating dinner last night, Dean commented he was ready to have all of the packing and moving done - and so am I! We are to that point and at the end of the day we hope to only have a good cleaning and a few minor things to finish before handing it over to the new owners in a little over a week - November 20!
My task today is to finish marking a few boxes, tape all of the boxes shut and to wrap my larger family pictures inside a few of the smaller folded boxes. We found if we leave them folded flat, we can slip them inside, wrap them in brown paper and tape them up. A few of the pictures were too large for any boxes or tubs we could find so this is going to work perfect. I hope to have all of that done before the boys arrive around 9:30. We are hoping 2 trips to the storage unit will be sufficient. With our van (back seats removed), our truck, Heath's SUV, Brett's truck and his trailer we can move a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. Heath is bringing his oldest son Abram. He was a great help the last time we moved Heath and Casey and that was a couple of years ago. He's only 10 but he's tall and stout for his age.
Dean headed in to the house before me and taped up all of my boxes, and loaded boxes and plastic tubs in the van. Once I finished my work in Bentley I went to work on packing our large family pictures. I decided to wrap each one in brown paper first and then put them in the folded boxes, finally taping both ends in several places. We were able to pack 5 large pictures this way - with 2 boxes holding two pictures. We were able to place the rest of the pictures in plastic tubs.
The boys showed up within a few minutes of each other around 9:30 and got right to work loading up the other vehicles.
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| Before pictures of the garage. |
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| Before pictures of the garage. |
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| Before pictures of the garage. Heath, Dean's oldest son and Heath's oldest son Abram. Notice Abram is almost as tall as his dad. |
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| I had to take a picture of this to share so I would have documentation of it. This was Dean's homemade door between our two garages. Looking through the door is where the vehicles were parked and leads into the back door of the house. The other side is Dean's shop/man cave. It worked well for when he wanted to heat or cool his man cave. He always thought he would put a regular door up but it worked so well he never did. |
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| Our grandson Abram. He wanted to know if "Papa" was taking the door between the garages? We all had a good laugh about that. |
By 10:15 we were headed to the storage unit with our first load.
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| Our train of vehicles pulling into the storage unit. |
It was almost 11:30 when we returned to Oswego. I ordered a couple of pizzas for lunch, while the guys continued to load things until I returned with the food. It was nice to have the break but then we were right back to loading again. The second trip consisted of taking a lot of lumber, individual hand/garden tools, and smaller items that were not boxed so it took longer to load; and of course longer to unload. By the time we returned, and they looked through several items Dean had set out for them to go through, it was nearly 3:30 before we finished up with our house.
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| Some after pictures. |
Our next task was to take our washer and dryer to my daughter's house, where they had to remove her existing units and then hook up the ones we delivered. The task went fairly smooth until Dean went to plug in the dryer - and of course it was different than the receptacle already installed. Something else to do!
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| Getting the old washer and dryer removed and new ones installed at Misti's. |
Once we returned to our house, Dean and Brett loaded several items he was taking to his house. He could not get everything in his truck and trailer so we loaded our truck to haul those for him. We had a few things to do before we left, including making a stop at the local hardware store to pick up a new plug for Misti's dryer. I'm so glad we did this before we left town since we discovered they would be closed tomorrow.
Fortunately when we got to Brett's Dean, Brett and Tucker unloaded everything. I would have helped but silly me did not bring a jacket. Since the sun had set it was a little too cool, so I set in the truck while they did the work. We stopped to get something to eat and it was about 7:30 when we returned to Oswego . We were both pretty well spent. I tried to check Facebook and my emails for the day but I just kept nodding off. We finally headed to bed a little before 10. We didn't walk this morning since we had so much to do, but I'm pretty sure we both walked enough today to make up for it, and with the bending and stooping added in I'm sure we got a little extra exercise as well. I just hope it made up for the pizza, hamburger and french fries I ate for lunch and dinner, that were NOT modified for a low carb diet. Hopefully one day won't throw me off too much!
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