Week 16:
After not going to the show in Bloomsburg on Saturday, I still had a truck full of supplies, so on Sunday we packed up C's car too and brought everything to the new house. We learned that there are still a few little problems that need to be fixed; so a few contractors'll visit us during the week to get everything straightened out. We got everything dropped off and went back home to pack more.
Sunday was much the same, pack both trucks, drive to the new place, unload, drive home.
Monday we attacked the electronics. Packing the DVD's , the computers, cameras, that stuff. Once again, loaded up the trucks and dropped stuff off at the new house. This is getting old by now, but the house still seems so full!
Tuesday the movers came. They were supposed to be here between 8am-10 am ("closer to 8"), and showed up closer to 10. They were wrapping and packing until almost 6pm and couldn't fit a few things into the truck! (A headboard and some chairs mostly!) Got to the new house about 7 pm and got the truck unpacked around 10 pm, the drove back to the old house to pick up the cats, and back to the new house to get some sleep around midnight. They only busted one thing: a wheel off of my coffee table- now I have to stop at Ikea to get a new one!
Wednesday: Unpack, unpack, and unpack, Cable guy comes- sets up cable and modems. Trades show- fix leak in basement. Leave big hole in wall to be fixed later. Now where the heck is the plumber!
Thursday: Drive to the old house; pack up my truck with a few of the remaining things still sitting in the closets and such. T arrives and we go to storage, where we pack like 100 shoebox sized boxes into my truck and her car. This is my inventory. Each box holds about 100 things- bars of soaps, lotion bars, bath fizzys, and many of them are really heavy! 100 bars of soap weigh about 22 lbs! We get to the new house and unload into my new workspace. We start to organize and unpack. C helps us at the new house; we catch dinner with T and then our friends B & M come by to bring us to the local ice cream place. Awesome ice cream, I had a soft serve chocolate with chocolate dip. I haven't had a dipped ice cream since I was a kid!
Friday: I went to the Mainline Art Center to help set up for the spring show from 10 tll about 2:30ish. On the way back I stopped at Ikea for a new wheel, and then at the old house to meet C & T. C was packing up some stuff, and T had taken on the task of the last cleaning & vacuuming of the place. We packed the trucks (yet again) and went home to the new house. We found a great Asian bistro and had some dinner. Came home to a refrigerator not working (it’s the outlet!) After that we put the headboard on the bed (finally!), and crawled into bed so we can get up early to do a show on Saturday (which deserves its own post for sure)…
Sat & Sun: Strawberry Festival at Peddlers Village. C works on unpacking & gets the electricians here to fix the outlet. Sun he waits for the hole in the basement wall to be fixed, the washer to be hooked up and/or fixed, and the hot water heater element to be replaced so we actually get a more than luke warm shower.
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