The tedious boring part…but boy was it busy!
September 22: Daley and Wanzer arrived to take our stuff to storage.
We tried to get it all done on their first visit but we hadn’t finished going through all the stuff in the house and were afraid we might forget something we really wanted. We figured that another week wouldn’t matter much…we planned on six weeks for shipping and it looked like Abi and I wouldn’t be leaving for another month at least. We packed books, projects to keep Holly busy, family pictures to make our apartment feel like home, winter clothes and shoes, kitchen knives, and other utinsels we didn’t want to live without, vitamins, deordorant and other toiletries, etc. 24 boxes in all…not bad. The movers thought they might like to deliver the boxes themselves until they heard our apartment was on the French 4th floor…meaning the 5th…
October 1 and 2:
Time out for Conference. 🙂 I will miss being able to watch it in real time on TV from my living room. Joe still hadn’t heard about his visa but he was hoping that it would come before we had our yard sale…HE HATES YARD SALES
October 6: Pick up Visas
Joe didn’t get his wish. The visas didn’t come in time to totally miss the yard sale. He agreed to provide food for the crew…and to pop in now and then. In the mean time he started packing for an October 8 afternoon flight.
October 8: Yard Sale and Joe takes off for Paris
We had been hauling stuff out to the garage that we thought we could sell since mid August. The hard part was the pricing. Luckily I had some friends who agreed to help price and/or to be there the day of the sale. Thank you SOOOOO much Carol, Esther, Heather L, Heather K, Val and Jan. In addition to the yard sale we posted a few items on Craig’s List that would need a broader audience…the electric guitars and the amplifiers, for example. We also included stuff from our friend Olive’s estate… All in all it was a big SUCCESS…. mostly because Heather K and Carol are GREAT sales people! (and Heather L came to shop lol) The sale lasted for four hours. We took the stuff that hadn’t sold that was worth something back into the garage to donate to Interfaith Social Services…and Dave told the Craig’s list scavengers to “come and get it.” By 3 the stuff was gone. If I were ever to do a yard sale again I’d do it just the same way…I hope never to have collected that much stuff that I didn’t want again…lol
October 9: Holly is FINALLY released from being RS President (bitter sweet)
October 14: Holly leaves for Idaho
I needed to be in Idaho to help my brother Kelly with some things that could use my special expertise. I also wanted to spend some time with my folks before I took off for far away. As always is was great being with family. The night before I left to come back to Boston, Kelly told me that we was going to propose to Dana the next day. E X C I T E D! for him.
October 15: Abi holds down the fort while 4 munchkins and their mom and dad move into ” la maison.”
Home for Holly now becomes upstairs at the barn…after the U Chicago crew team exits the premises on Oct. 23…they always stay in our barn and at the neighbor’s for the Head of the Charles.
October 22: Holly heads for Providence for one more overnight with Val…boy am I going to miss her.
October 27: Holly and Abi Leave for Paris, France and our new adventure
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