Packing and Phone Calls!

Slowly but surely getting thing packed up and staged for moving, I’d call it organized chaos!  Almost down to the point of living out of boxes.  For some stuff I am, most of the kitchen cupboards are empty, doing my best to use up, clean up most of the food items so there will be not that much to move.  Probably a good thing to do any how, going through various items and checking expiration dates, I found Items that had passed their prime in 2010?  Needless to say they went straight in the trash.  Refrigerator condiments too many that have been hanging out for way to long.  Not only expired but with having to limit the amount of sodium intake these days much of those things are loaded with salt…out they go! Packed up most of the shed things; shovels, rakes, saws, etc. these are things that just don’t pack well!  Best you can do is put them in a garbage can and hope for the best.  A lot of this stuff will go in the 5’ x 10’ storage shed we got in Loyal, at least until we get moved in and organized, figure out where everything is going to go?  Quite sure there will be a number of items that will be going on a Thrift Sale next spring!  Kathy is going to take a car load back this weekend for the storage shed and then Gary & Kathy going to come next week with Gary truck & trailer and load up the rest of the shed stuff, mowers, weed whip, trimmer, power washer and what ever else they can get in the load to go to the shed, the tractor will have to be stored outside with a tarp for now.  Then Saturday the 15th we are going to Peggy place for Christmas  were going to load up vehicles with as much stuff as we can get to go in the garage at the new house.  Hopefully with that, come the 18th everything else will fit in the U-haul truck?  So that’s the plan, now just need it all to workout and for the weather to cooperate! 

I forgot how many calls that need to be made when your moving, shutting off the gas, electric, cable, garbage, water filter at this place and then having everything turned on at the new place, water, sewer and garbage with the city, Direct TV for cable and VIASAT for the internet, WE Energy for Gas and Xcel for electric so at least the electric was able to do both with one phone call.  Cancel the home owners insurance here and get new insurance for the other house.  Spent a number of hours on the phone the past couple of days.  Do believe I got them all covered?

 

I see there is now freezing rain, snow in the forecast for the next few days!  Just couldn’t hold out until the 20th of December could it?