Progress on some fronts...

We've been busy working towards moving...which involves all sorts of sorting and packing.  Which leads to the question...Why do we have so much STUFF?  It's quite the project to open up boxes that I'm not sure we've opened since we moved in here and then try and decide what to do with it.  Plus, it's not like we are packing from this house and will be moving into a new house where everything can be just put away.  Things are going to have to go in storage and may be there for awhile.  So we are trying to be organized - putting specific labels on boxes telling what's inside.



Boxes are starting to pile up - even in my library!

Is that Kirk I see peering out from the mountain of boxes?

Meanwhile...Jim is working so hard on finishing up a multitude of projects on this house to get it ready to be sold.  He's been making and installing tons of moldings in rooms, he painted the laundry room, the list goes on and on.  But he's making good progress and it's exciting to see rooms being totally finished.

Then there's more truck work happening.  Jim is trying to get the injectors out and have them rebuilt - a much more difficult job than it sounds.  It was going to be expensive to take the truck in and have them do the job so Jim talked to people at the shop that rebuilds them and figured he could take them out himself and save the cost of that part of it.  After talking to them and seeing how they did it, three of them came out okay.  But there's always one.  And it won't budge.  Jim has made 2 different tools, borrowed one from the shop - and still it won't budge.  So that's still a work in progress. 

I did some calling about storage units in Saratoga so I think we have a couple good leads there.  But the most exciting part is that I think we found an apartment!  Just looking online, I was getting a bit discouraged.  There's just not much available - in Saratoga, everything is very pricey.  Things that were affordable weren't close by enough - I don't want Jim to be traveling after working all day.  Then I found an ad on Craig's List that led me to a realtor in the little town nearby, probably less than 10 minutes from the lot.  It's listed as a "huge" three bedroom.  It's above a doctor & dentist office and from the pictures, it looks clean and like it would be perfect.  We would each be able to have a space to work plus we should have enough storage space to pile boxes.  Hopefully we wouldn't need as big of a storage unit that way.  Plus it has free hot water heat so that will be nice.  We've started talking with the realtor.  I'm hopeful that they will keep it for us until we can get up there probably at the end of March to look at it and then sign a lease.  And I'm really hopeful that we could maybe even start storing things there at that point but we'll see.