A Different Sort of Adventure

I'm taking a few liberties to write about our adventures at "home." Justification - Tiny and Lucille both live on the property and Tiny has been very instrumental thus far in clearing out the property of dead trees and stumps. So the adventures continue, just in a little different direction. 

We were thrilled to take possession of our home on December 1, 2014. However, the trailer with the furniture was still at the terminal and would not be delivered for another few days. Thank goodness Lucille was on the property! We borrowed her bed mattress, kitchen goods, towels and other living essentials and proceeded to camp in our house. It worked.  We are no longer in a hotel!

The trailer arrived on December 3. Good grief do we have a lot of stuff to unpack! Even after selling most of our furniture and culling our clothes, we still took up 20' of the 28' trailer (9' tall, 8' wide). I felt a little better after talking with the delivery guy from Old Dominion. He has delivered as many as 2 of these trailers to a home. So in retrospect, maybe we did good almost filling just one. (If you are moving a long distance, I highly suggest checking out Old Dominion Freight Lines. You pack, they pick it up and deliver it. It beats driving a UHaul.)

The new washer/dryer and fridge arrived December 3. The bedroom set arrived a week or so later. It was so nice to get off the floor! These should be our last large furniture and appliance purchases unless the workmanship has built in obsolescence. Well, I take that back. We still need a couch or something for our family area. While we do have interim chairs (Dave's marshmallow couch and a vintage easy chair) to sit on, it provides limited seating when company comes over.

It has been a whirlwind since we moved in. Unpacking the moving trailer, unpacking boxes (more to unpack), starting the yard demolition, meeting neighbors, out of town company (already!), finding a hair stylist, learning how to use the garden tractor, yard demolition, finding the dump that takes clean green, more yard demolition.......