The move out of our home of 8 1/2 years started last weekend. Paul and I, along with son Keith did it all. Luckily I have been off work for a month and had a head start on boxing things up. The bad news is not enough was boxed up and the storage facility closed at 8pm daily. Paul had started clearing out the garage also in advance. We had Russells Waste Removal for round one. Just prior to moving weekend we had another pile of trash piled in our driveway. We solicited another junk man for this load. Then on Thursday morning we called Russell again for yet another load. We could have done a fourth load, but Paul hadn’t the time to go through any more sorting. Time was up. We were to be out of the house by 11am on Thursday morning. This did not happen. Called the new owners and asked for an extension. They agreed we could take until Friday and leave things in the garage if necessary. We had to work flat out from 6am to 10pm every day for a week to make it happen and had everything out of the house by Friday evening at 9pm. The garage however contained 5 more car loads for the storage unit which got taken over on Saturday morning. Keith came again on Friday evening and helped with the final loads.
You may recall my earlier post where we secured out storage unit. At the eleventh hour, we opted to go for a larger more accessible unit. We are thankful that we did. We have managed to fill every nook and cranny. It’s unbelievable how much stuff we had in our home. I’ve asked Paul for a commitment not to bring so much aboard Blue Sky. We’ll see how that goes.
Something to consider if you decide to move things into storage to go sailing. Everything in your fridge must go. I had my daughter and her upstairs neighbor go shopping in my kitchen. They took what they wanted. This still left me with many jars to empty and put into recycling. I borrowed an extra recycling box from a neighbor and still could have used 3 more. It’s crazy how many containers fit in a fridge. I will think differently when I shop for groceries going forward.
We got to the hotel late Friday night a realized that we had paperwork to finalize and we’d need the extra day in town. We called the airline and they were able to accomodate a change in flight to Sunday. So we leave tomorrow. This along allowed us to be much calmer today than we’ve been in weeks. Can hardly wait to get to the boat and truly start our new life aboard. Thanks everyone for the well wishes. We promise to keep you posted every chance we get.