We are all moved out. We finished the rest of the cleaning today and loaded the last of the stuff from the garage into the car just before I picked up Saedi from the bus. Since we were done and it was still a while before we had to go to the new house, we just hung around so the kids could play with the neighborhood friends before it was not our neighborhood anymore.
Saedi’s friend Jacob brought out his pirate stuff to play with today.
We finally got the last of the stuff out of the “old” house and are now cleaning it. The carpet cleaning company was coming today so I had to make sure I had finished vacuuming all of the carpet before he got there. Normally the kids hate the noise of the vacuum and run from it. Solvei always tells me that it’s loud (“lao”).
When I came down from vacuuming the upstairs, I found Solvei in the living room.
I finished vacuuming the rest of the downstairs and did the living room last. Solvei didn’t even wake up as I vacuumed around her, so the only spot that wasn’t cleaned when the carpet guy came was where Solvei was laying.
We’ve been eating mostly fast food during the move. Not just because the kitchen was either still set up at the other house, or packed at the new house, but mostly, because of the move, I have not had time to go grocery shopping or time to make meals. It’s amazing how quickly fast food gets really old. You can only have the same thing so many times. I was really glad to find there is a Carl’s Jr by the new house, because it is one place we hadn’t seen since we moved to Washington (and so have not eaten at yet during the move).
We don’t normally do very much fast food, so this is the first time I have ever ordered anything for Solvei and Nels that I could just give them packages and let them feed themselves.
Our Pacific Northwest tree-hugging-naturalist native fellow statesmen would be proud.
We got moving boxes delivered today from a company called Frog Box. It will definitely make packing a whole lot easier. I could definitely see using a service like this on a national scale, they need to work out some sort of agreement with pods.
All those hours Nate spent playing Tetris as a child was actually time spent developing an essential life skill.
We rented a trailer today to get some of the big things over to the new house, so we could start “living” over there. Nate is very good at fitting things into the trailer around, and with, what else is in the trailer so it is a secure and full load. No empty or wasted spaces.
We signed the new lease and picked up keys today. We’ve planned it so that we would have 2 weeks to get it done, and we’ll likely NEED it because we have too much stuff. Now to get started on the packing……
“Tour of Homes.” Each year the Homebuilders Assn. of Greater Tacoma put together a “Tour of Homes” featuring newly built houses constructed by association members. In the fall of 1969, homes in [our area] were available for viewing by potential buyers. The event was heavily publicized with directions and photographs published in the News Tribune. 1969 would be the biggest Fall Tour of Homes in the Homebuilders Assn.’s 20-year history. Open houses for 29 new homes, with prices ranging from $17,000-40,000, would begin September 1969. The stone-and-wood home with recessed doorway pictured above is a builders’ model, located on the fairway in [golf course behind the house] at [model home at our address]. “Tour of Homes” officials are pictured in front of the home on September 10, 1969.
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