This past week has been extremely busy and exhausting. I am pleased to report I am in my new house and everything is under control (sort of).
There were some wrinkles that proved pretty frustrating but has there ever been a move where that was not true? First of all, the moving company miscalculated the size of the load and the amount of time to break down and load the furniture. This has happened before. They ended up going to get another van to get everything loaded so we were into the evening this past Monday getting done.
I went to see Cowboy the next morning and arrived in Arlington about noon to find they had arrived about 15 minutes before me. Good timing.
Cowboy was fine but seems to have some trouble comprehending what is going on.
It took the movers into the evening hours to complete the unload and they wracked up 5 more hours overall than estimated. Not a happy situation but they did work diligently to get it all done. They were unable to get the sleeper sofa into the upstairs bedroom that we wanted and broke a pane in the china cabinet. Other than that no mishaps with the furniture.
I learned from the pool people that the secondary pump and the sweeper were gone for the pool. That cost $1000. I checked my home owners policy and it is pretty non specific on the details on the pool AND the inspector did not pick up on it. Plus, you have to report and get an agreement to get it resolved with the insurance company before you do the repair. I didn't do that. I suspect it would have taken about a year to fight through and in the meantime I would have to clean everything manually. I am not up to that.
My daughter got home on Saturday and we got some things done and then on Sunday I had three grandsons hoisting boxes, fixing little things, etc. That was very helpful. There were a bunch of empty boxes and we carried them to the curb for the garbage folks to recycle. At the suggestion of grandson number 1 I put an ad on Craigslist as free boxes. Within an hour they were all gone!!
Also, grandsons number 2 and 4 were able to get the sofa in the bedroom. Problem solved.
I have spent every day getting up and starting in on unpacking and organizing til I give out and then I quit. This is going to take awhile. I have been to Home Depot about 5 times as well as WalMart a couple of times.
Today grandson number 4 came over and carried a lot of boxes upstairs. Sometime this week grandson number 1 will be back to put up some cabinets and pegboards. We are getting there. I am so grateful to all of them.
Tomorrow I am going to see Cowboy. They are going to have a little Easter party and I made baked beans today to take for the luncheon. I have talked to him a couple of times and he is fine but misses me. I am feeling a little guilty about not being over to see him much lately. Plan to go tomorrow and then again on Easter to see him. Hoping to get our schedule back to normal.
I am really tired but every day is a bit better. I mostly am sleeping pretty well. The weather has been kind of crazy and very windy. This house makes very strange noises in the wind. Need to look into that at some point. My daughter says it sounds like it is "haunted". I suspect it is wind and some loose branches or something in the attic. We will figure it out.
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