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This is the post I was working on when Bigfoot collapsed...
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It's done.
All the stuff is moved.
I have the best friends ever.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
min0taur, Sally WINOLJ, Michael (WI essentially NOLJ, since he has one but never posts) and textdeviant spent the weekend helping me get the rest of the house packed up and moved, even though two of them are allergic to cats and pretty much everybody is allergic to dust (and OMG there was a lot of dust lurking behind and under furniture that hadn't moved in years!). textdeviant fed us fabulous spaghetti and salads last night (and offered to feed us again tonight, but I think everybody was at the "I just want to go home and fall down" stage) which made all the difference in the world in being able to get up and work all day again today, but finally, it's done.
There's a full 10' UHaul in the driveway that needs to go back by 1:30 tomorrow. I'm fairly well resigned to paying for another day, and I'm fine with that.
The PackRat will get here tomorrow late morning or early afternoon. Bob the PackRat Packer will be meeting it here and will become Bob the PackRat Unpacker. Oh... my... gods... that man played three-dimension Tetris with my stuff and managed to fit an absolutely amazing amount of stuff into that 16' box. Worth every penny (and while more expensive than doing it myself, he and the PackRat were way cheaper than hiring a moving company). I hope _I_ never need him again, but if anybody in Indy is moving and needs a recommendation, I'll happily pass his contact info along.
Before leaving the house for the last time, I said my goodbyes to the trees. That's the one thing that makes me sad about this move... I'm very fond of my two huge maple trees and the developers will inevitably knock them down. So I spent some time thanking them for 12 years of not dropping branches on the house or the cars. Hopefully I can keep the maple saplings alive so I'll have some continuity from old house to new.
Tomorrow, I'm off work and the painters won't be here 'til later in the day, so I'm going to get up while it's still cool(ish) out and put the new cart together, then tow it around the yard while I (a) pick up sticks and (b) look for any protuberances that I need to not hit with the lawnmower blades. Once I've scoped things out, I'll make another pass at the mower deck's highest setting. That should be enough to make the neighbors happy and still keep me (hopefully) from hitting anything that I shouldn't. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to mow 2+ acres!
For now, I've opened the boxes that were labelled "Now!" and extracted the cell phone charger, alarm clock, things needed for my shower in the morning, and I've fed and watered dogs and cats and walked the dogs. I think I'll see if I can get some sleep now.
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It's done.
All the stuff is moved.
I have the best friends ever.
min0taur, Sally WINOLJ, Michael (WI essentially NOLJ, since he has one but never posts) and textdeviant spent the weekend helping me get the rest of the house packed up and moved, even though two of them are allergic to cats and pretty much everybody is allergic to dust (and OMG there was a lot of dust lurking behind and under furniture that hadn't moved in years!). textdeviant fed us fabulous spaghetti and salads last night (and offered to feed us again tonight, but I think everybody was at the "I just want to go home and fall down" stage) which made all the difference in the world in being able to get up and work all day again today, but finally, it's done.There's a full 10' UHaul in the driveway that needs to go back by 1:30 tomorrow. I'm fairly well resigned to paying for another day, and I'm fine with that.
The PackRat will get here tomorrow late morning or early afternoon. Bob the PackRat Packer will be meeting it here and will become Bob the PackRat Unpacker. Oh... my... gods... that man played three-dimension Tetris with my stuff and managed to fit an absolutely amazing amount of stuff into that 16' box. Worth every penny (and while more expensive than doing it myself, he and the PackRat were way cheaper than hiring a moving company). I hope _I_ never need him again, but if anybody in Indy is moving and needs a recommendation, I'll happily pass his contact info along.
Before leaving the house for the last time, I said my goodbyes to the trees. That's the one thing that makes me sad about this move... I'm very fond of my two huge maple trees and the developers will inevitably knock them down. So I spent some time thanking them for 12 years of not dropping branches on the house or the cars. Hopefully I can keep the maple saplings alive so I'll have some continuity from old house to new.
Tomorrow, I'm off work and the painters won't be here 'til later in the day, so I'm going to get up while it's still cool(ish) out and put the new cart together, then tow it around the yard while I (a) pick up sticks and (b) look for any protuberances that I need to not hit with the lawnmower blades. Once I've scoped things out, I'll make another pass at the mower deck's highest setting. That should be enough to make the neighbors happy and still keep me (hopefully) from hitting anything that I shouldn't. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to mow 2+ acres!
For now, I've opened the boxes that were labelled "Now!" and extracted the cell phone charger, alarm clock, things needed for my shower in the morning, and I've fed and watered dogs and cats and walked the dogs. I think I'll see if I can get some sleep now.
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Mowing 2+ acres
Date: 2008-07-21 10:57 am (UTC)Re: Mowing 2+ acres
Date: 2008-07-21 04:09 pm (UTC)I got the yard around the house mowed and had just gone out the long way to start at the road and work back and a huge thunderstorm rolled through, so I'm done mowing for a little while!
Re: Mowing 2+ acres
Date: 2008-07-21 09:19 pm (UTC)That or with a weekwhacker for the VERY steepest bits...
Re: Mowing 2+ acres
Date: 2008-07-22 03:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-21 09:18 pm (UTC)kidding! only kidding. <g>
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Date: 2008-07-22 03:29 am (UTC)Fenced? Bwaaaaahahahahah! It's coming... but not by Monday!
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Date: 2008-07-22 06:41 pm (UTC)