The move out of our home of 8 1\/2 years started last weekend. Paul and I, along with son Keith did it all.\u00a0 Luckily I have been off work for a month and had a head start on boxing things up.\u00a0 The bad news is not enough was boxed up and the storage facility closed at 8pm daily.\u00a0 Paul had started clearing out the garage also in advance.\u00a0 We had Russells Waste Removal for round one.\u00a0 Just prior to moving weekend we had another pile of trash piled in our driveway.\u00a0 We solicited another junk man for this load.\u00a0 Then on Thursday morning we called Russell again for yet another load.\u00a0 We could have done a fourth load, but Paul hadn’t the time to go through any more sorting.\u00a0 Time was up. We were to be out of the house by 11am on Thursday morning.\u00a0 This did not happen.\u00a0 Called the new owners and asked for an extension.\u00a0 They agreed we could take until Friday and leave things in the garage if necessary.\u00a0We 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.\u00a0 The garage however contained 5 more car loads for the storage unit which got taken over on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Keith came again on Friday evening and helped with the final loads.<\/p>\n
You may recall my earlier post where we secured out storage unit.\u00a0 At the eleventh hour, we opted to go for a larger more accessible unit.\u00a0 We are thankful that we did. We have managed to fill every nook and cranny.\u00a0 It’s unbelievable how much stuff we had in our home.\u00a0 I’ve asked Paul for a commitment not to bring so much aboard Blue Sky.\u00a0 We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n
Something to consider if you decide to move things into storage to go sailing. Everything in your fridge must go.\u00a0 I had my daughter and her upstairs neighbor go shopping in my kitchen.\u00a0 They took what they wanted.\u00a0 This still left me with many jars to empty and put into recycling.\u00a0 I borrowed an extra recycling box from a neighbor and still could have used 3 more.\u00a0 It’s crazy how many containers fit in a fridge.\u00a0 I will think differently when I shop for groceries going forward.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 We called the airline and they were able to accomodate a change in flight to Sunday.\u00a0 So we leave tomorrow.\u00a0 This along allowed us to be much calmer today than we’ve been in weeks.\u00a0 Can hardly wait to get to the boat and truly start our new life aboard.\u00a0 Thanks everyone for the well wishes.\u00a0 We promise to keep you posted every chance we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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