Happy Birthday, Jim!

Today is Jim's birthday - how fun to celebrate it here!  Today will be a busy and exciting one - we're really saying life here in motion today.  Off to breakfast!

So our first stop today was to stop at Home Depot to get a lock and then to check out the storage units. Check out the snow piles in the parking lot - they had about a foot of snow a couple of weeks ago!



We looked at two storage places, although only one had a 10x20' available. We liked that one the best anyway so we signed on the dotted line for it!

Jim moving our first piece of equipment into the storage unit!

After that, we had to go see the lot ... How gorgeous is this? This is why we are going through all this. The sky is bluer here and the smell amazing!





Back to the hotel for lunch and then we tracked down the insurance agent that we had found on one of our previous trips. This was our first face-to-face meeting and we really liked him. Obviously this move and transition is going to involve lots of insurance issues and we feel really confident that we found the right person to help us.

Then we got a call from the realtor about seeing the apartment. It's kind of a reality check - no doubt it's going to be hard to move out of our gorgeous, comfortable house to move into an apartment like this. But we just have to keep focus on the end goal. This apartment has 3 bedrooms, living room, 1 bathroom and eat in kitchen. So the goal of having places to store things is what's important. The realtor also said he had a home he was fixing up to sell and let us go through that. It's got tons of space - probably 6 bedroom areas. But the apartment has free heat and the house doesn't. I called Tom and told him we liked it but we're concerned about the heat - hoping he would say he'd help with that. But no. He couldn't even give us an estimate of the bills - just said it would be expensive. It's heating oil and he had told us that his own home was costing close to $10,000 for heating before he converted to propane. Sure can't afford that! So we told him to talk to the owner about our conditions - move in in May but want to start moving in things now.

It's now close to 7:00 and we're getting ready to go eat.

End of day...you would think that finding a Hawaiian pizza - which is what Jim decided he wanted for his birthday dinner - would be easy. Ahh...not so much. We went to 4 places before we found Pope's Pizza it was well worth the wait - or we were just starving!!  And to top it off, beer in a plastic cup while we were waiting!