The Packing!

That's right kids. Its another post telling the story of our journey over to Wyoming.

Up first... the Packing!
We started packing about three weeks before the big move date. We quickly had the attic, spare bedroom and most of the living room/dining room packed. Unfortunately, we didn't have anywhere to put it at the time, so it all went back into the spare bedroom. You know you have too many books when a single layer of boxes full of your books fills most of a bedroom. The second location that held the remainder of the items we weren't looking to keep went into the basement. It also got to be pretty full. We tried to donate to a charity or organization around us, but no one seemed to want anything, or they wouldn't come out to where we lived. I understand there were some sticks around, but it wasn't all that far out of the city. In the end we put a post on Craigslist about having items that needed new homes, gave a brief list and waited to see what happened. Lets just say I'm glad my email account wasn't the one used in the post. Andrea received a bunch of replies, many of which were people that wanted everything we had. We tried splitting it up among deserving people, but in the end because of a few no-shows we simply gave it all to one nice lady. 3 trips full. I might suggest not moving into a house that a family has lived in for 40+ years without applying the cleansing ability of fire first. So much stuff not even ours to give away, in addition to all the stuff that was ours that we didn't want to take with us. So as we approached the big day, we were about 90% packed.

Check in next moving post for the day of loading the trailer.

I'll see you where the roads meet.

Looking out from our deck.

No photos of the inside yet, but I did make a nice compilation of photos from our deck off of our bedroom. This is looking out over the field that borders our block. On the far side are the community college and the Walmart that thankfully gets blocked by the hill itself. Andrea has a new favorite pastime of watching the people who walk there dogs in the field. Most people leave the dogs off the leash so they have a pretty good time running around exploring. It amuses Andrea to no end. We are looking forward to what the field will look like with snow on it. Should be a nice change of pace from the scrub grass that it is now. Click on the image to see a full screen version of the picture.

That's it for now, I'll post a similar picture when the landscape changes.

I'll see you where the roads meet.