Day 47-50 / Day 19-23 of 3rd leg
As I sit here on Oct 20, I realize I did not do any entries for the above referenced days. So…
Basically, hours & hours and days & days of packing, transferring to the garage, and mental preparation.
The most difficult day was *Friday the 18th, but Thursday was tough too because there was a delay from Escrow (buyer’s side) and a possibility we wouldn’t be able to sign, which was an impossibility. David worked the phones & they sent someone to our house to conduct the signing on site. Whew! Also on Thursday David checked with Shurguard to confirm the truck, and was told it had broken down, but they’d “probably” have one for us by Friday as scheduled.
Friday had been planned down to the letter, but the truck delay screwed us up. David was able to pick up the U-Haul trailer in the morning, but we needed to pack that after the truck, which FINALLY became available after 1:30. By the time it was home & we started to load it was 2:00. Never fear, I had plenty to keep me busy inside the house in the meantime. So, loading started in earnest at 2:00pm, and at 6:00pm Ray & Sharon showed up with a pizza which we ate in the garage. Then more loading, and @ 7:30 Dave & Joyce came by. Although we’ve since agreed that the 2 of us would have done a tighter, more efficient pack job (as in packing it into the trucks), we’ve also acknowledged that multiple bodies were necessary to make it all happen by 11:00pm.
In the end, we had to go back out Saturday morning and refine a couple things, and find places to stuff all the odds & ends; however, much to the amazement of all involved we fit *everything we owned into a truck and trailer with the exception of some plastic lawn furniture.
Emotionally, I was in a great mood on Friday, all through the packing. David was terribly stressed before the truck became available, but then rolled with the punches. We connected with each other throughout the day, and both seemed to have the same positive outlook on the move in general. It just feels right.
*Friday the 18th: This was the day we had to pack everything in the 23’ rental truck & 12’ U-Haul trailer, because our travel schedule was set up to get us back to Ohio
for the house signing on October 25
for the house signing on October 25
*everything we owned: In addition to the predictable boxes of “stuff”, we’re talking 3 couches, multiple chairs, dining room furniture, grandfather clock, Gold Wing motorcycle & trailer, 3 bedrooms of furniture and mattresses, a full kitchen including the refrigerator, our washer and dryer, a 3-car garage worth of gear including air compressor and tool chest, miscellaneous yard items, a car trailer loaded with our old Volvo wagon which was loaded with all the houseplants and some yard plants,…EVERYTHING!
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