A Big Day

It felt like Christmas today - our container of goods was delivered, and we are now in the throes of wading through plastic tote bins and packages, each coded, numbered and sealed. Tonight we'll sleep with a real quilt on our bed instead of sleeping bags! Yay!

It was so exciting to see this van backing into our driveway at 9:30 this morning.

The van had to ferry our stuff from the container truck parked elsewhere in town to our house. Three guys did the unpacking and placement into each room of the house, marked with a letter at the doorway. Going through the list of items on my clipboard as they unloaded each crate, brought back memories of the day we packed it all in with Mark, Dina and Bruce helping - it seems so long ago! It took two full loads in this van to disburse all our possessions, and it was all complete (from their end) in 2.5 hours. 

The back of the van was low to the ground initially, 

Photo: D.Schultz

but that soon changed

It's been so exciting. Who'd have thought that being reunited with your old stuff would feel so good? It's only 'things' after all. Even though we got rid of lots, there is still more here than is reasonable for 2 people (in my opinion, anyway).

The garage allotment of totes

Photo: D. Schultz

I've unpacked a lot of boxes and totes, but now I need to figure out where in my kitchen it must all go - how did I end up with so much stuff after all the clearing and selling we did? 

Some containers didn't fare as well as others and got a bit bashed and damaged, but so far, we've lost 3 glasses and found a broken wooden strut on an oak chair. That's all. Not too bad!

I have been doing yard work without a rake, thinking we'd packed one, so I struggled on, waiting for it to arrive instead of buying a new one. Ha! Yes we packed a rake, a metal tined rake only, not a plastic leaf rake. So now I need to go out and buy one anyway, and it would have been super helpful all this time. Silly me!

The house is already starting to feel more like our own.