Wow, it's been a while since I sat down and updated the blog. Though, I do have the excuse that I've been insanely busy - life tends to get in the way of blogging. I even tried Twitter for a bit, though that felt too much like short attention span blogging.
Anyways, here's part of 1 of what we've been up to for the past 8 months or so.
At 12:55 yesterday afternoon, I finished signing the paperwork to sell the house! We spent a good chunk of the last few years painting, landscaping, updating both bathrooms and the kitchen. (Ok, we paid Harvey's Construction to to do the bathrooms and kitchen, but we went shopping for all the supplies. :) Anyways, everything turned out beautiful, the house was in immaculate condition, and we sold it to a nice young couple...who already have plans to go in and repaint everything *sigh*
The day before, Dan got writers cramp signing all the paper work to buy our NEW house. Ok, it's only 3 years newer than the old house, but it's new to us....and it needs some work. Mom, Dad, and Aunt Denise were up here three weekends in a row helping us clean and paint. We painted the kitchen, the living room, and three of the bedrooms. Diana painted hers hot pink and Rachel painted hers white so she could add her own drawings. The landscaping was neglected for a long time, so I should get out there with the hedge trimmer at some point. But right now, I'm thinking of having the bathrooms remodeled. I know I have the Harvey's phone number around here somewhere...
The thing I like most about the new house is that it so QUIET. No traffic, no sirens, NOTHING. Just the occasional blue jay...I've spent more time outside here in the last two days than I did at the old house all summer. It even has a koi pond! I'll get pictures of everything online as soon as we get some of the storage bins out of the way.
I should mention how the move went down. I had hired movers to come in and pack everything up and haul it to the new house. A guy came over, I showed him all the rooms (the attic and basement were well stuffed with storage bins and such) and he gave me an estimate for about 5 hours of moving. He was slightly off with his calculation. First of all, there was a slight miscommunication between the guy who did the estimate and the guys who showed up to do the move. They showed up with a truck, but no packing supplies and they had no access to packing supplies that day. Thankfully we had quiet a bit already packed up, and there was plenty of furniture to move. So, while they were hauling stuff down from the attic, we recruited Dan's parents and John Adams to start filling more boxes and storage bins with the rest of the stuff. Did I mention we wound up buying about 60 extra storage bins? (this is in addition to all the ones we've accumulated over the years for other things, such as holiday decorations and season items) The movers were there 7 hours the first day, and 6 hours the next. We did all the packing. There were quiet a few odds and ends left after the movers were gone, including our lawn tractor. We then called up the reserves, better known as Laurie, Howard, Brian and Doug. They helped with the last bit of packing, and then the cleaning of the house. We left with the last of our stuff in a small convoy at about 9 PM the night before the closing. It took about an hour to unload everything and then find the storage bin with all the bed sheets.
So, we have the next 30 years or so to go through about 200 storage bins. Has anyone seen my cell phone??
