It took my daughter Jane and I from June 26th until July 3rd to move about a million boxes of mystery stuff we think we need to keep. After 6 days we are still trying to find places to put it. Fortunately, Joanne the landlady, has furnished a big dumpster, and after a second or third consideration I expect we will decide we will be better off getting rid of a lot of things we felt we had to keep. Our biggest problem is that, because we each lived in a trailer for years before this, we have almost no furniture. In fact a sofa from Jane's daughter is the only real piece of conventional furniture we own. The rest is improvised from crates, cement blocks and various sized pieces of plywood. Jane has a regular queen sized mattress with inner springs, but I am very comfortable using a 6 inch thick piece of foam rubber for my mattress on plywood and cement blocks to support it all. This house inspires us to get some pretty furnishings - probably second hand and that will take a little time to acquire.
Our new home was built to be a granny flat. but it is more than adequate for us. There are two fair sized bedrooms, a bigger livingroom with a Franklin stove, a nice kitchen with almost enough storage room and a bathroom. There is also a large laundry room and a big storage area attached to it that can be reached only from the outside. The house has central air conditioning and heating that works well, and the doors and especially the windows are tight and won't let in drafts and dust like the house back up the mountain that we lived in before did.
We feel as if we have moved to town, but the views around us give the feeling we are still out in the boonies. A hungry looking coyote is so bold he visits our back yard in broad daylight, giving my dog Smokey Joe a job to do chasing him away. There are of two boulder strewn mountains looming steeply upward on the east and the west of us as a two-lane blacktop road with a steady stream of cars on it goes south to north through the canyon up to a big Indian casino not far away. There is actually a Circle K convenience store only 2 ½ miles from us where the library, community center and the stores of Lakeside begin. This seems like the best of two worlds.
I'm not going to be able to spend much time on-line for awhile. We are back to one phone line, and Jane uses it most of the time to earn her living as a medical transcriptionist. I also need to make some replacements on my computer system.
Meanwhile, I just wanted to let you know we survived the move, even if we are a little the worse for wear. I miss all my Gather friends very much and look forward to when we can get higher speed downloading and a time when I can get back into a Gather groove every day. All I can promise is that I'll see ya' when I see ya'. Stay well and happy.
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SO glad to hear from you - have been wondering how the move went and hoping that you were just too busy for gathering.
No name for the new coyote yet?
I am so glad the move went well! I still have boxes packed from my move in here 3 years ago. They are going in the garbage - if it hasn't been unpacked in 3 years we must not need it that badly. I am so tired of clutter and what not, seems to be all I have. If we were closer, I'd send you some of my furnature, as we have TOO MUCH. We hate to throw things away (clearly) would rather GIVE them to someone who can use them and can't afford to buy new, you know? {{{HUGS}} the new place sounds beautiful, enjoy it!
Yay! Glad you are moved in.
Please don't just trash your unneeded stuff, FreeCycle it.
Google "FreeCycle" chances are there is a freecycle group in your home town. Everything is offered free. You email the group and your list of items is posted to the group, someone calls and finds out where to pick up the items. That's it.
Also, you can post items you are in need of and often you can find what you need. I got a free window air conditioner from my local freecycle and when the first one didn't fit my window, someone emailed me and traded me for a smaller one that did fit. It didn't cost me a penny. The gentleman even delivered his and took away mine. He needed the larger size and I didn't. Do an ISO for the furniture you need. You might be surprised to get it for free just for picking it up.
Please FreeCycle and keep more stuff from being discarded that could be useful to someone else. Save landfill space and help the planet Earth.
Good to hear you have made the transition. Sounds like a nice place. Enjoy every moment in your new home.
Glad you are moved. Just as long as you have your tea pot and a couple of cups, the other stuff can wait.
I'm so glad to hear from you too. Maybe soon life can get back to normal - whatever normal is. Righ now I'm worried about Jane. She went off at about 9 A.M. to go to the bank and somewhere else intending to get back home as soon as possible to work. It is now 1:30 and she is not back nor has she called. Oh God etc, etc.
Thanks for the update Ruth. Moving is always rough. I too have tons of stuff I thought I needed. LOL
Glad you are surviving the task -- moving is a great way to force a bit of a clear-out but its hard to make the decisions. May you settle in comfortably and be back soon.
Most important is you getting settled into you new home. We'll be here waiting for your return...at least those of us who can weather the storm of not being rewarded all that much for participating. I may not be doing that much because of lack of activity, but there are a few events coming up in my neighborhood I'll at leaat have to take a stroll and check out...with camera in hand, too...Rochester Gay Pride and the Rochester Park Ave Summer Festival.
Ruth, you just sealed a belief I had that we never quit worrying about our children. Oh. Well, that is life. Glad you are moved in and doing well. It does seem you have the best of 2 worlds in the new place. Nice to see you.
Best wishes on your "new life".
dont pitch the stuff ruth have a sale or a trade day get my drift?
glad you've found what sounds likea good place, Ruth, and are begining to settle in. I had to mover most of my things recently because of a flood and I'm now drying out and looking at stacks of boxes too, and deciding what to do, so I understand that part well. look forward to hearing more from you as your situation permits.
Mystery stuff! HA HA!! I like that! I've moved a couple of times in my life and yes, there have been boxes of stuff that were a mystery to me, too! I've been going through these boxes slowly, maybe one per month and am getting rid of the mystery stuff. Some stuff is hard to get rid of though
Congratulations on the successful move. I still have boxes I haven't unpacked after moving a year and a half ago. Gotta love that mystery stuff. Your new place sounds wonderful and I wish you many happy moments.
Ruth - it sounds like a great house - with central air - wow - that's great and it sounds like the best of all worlds - but I sure hope you can get online more often - I know the feeling as presently am on a slow dial up. take your time unpacking - there's always going to be something to do when you first move - and I hope in time you get comfortable. I can't throw anything away either - wish I could...take care and all the best and hope that things keep working out!!! Keep in touch. Salud
I'm glad that the move went well, Ruth.
It does sound like place is in a great location.
There's supposed to be a "the" in there. :-)
I imagine those mountains get snow in the winter. That will be a treat for the eyes.