8-6-2013

At the moment, my brain is kind of fried so thinking of a post title is officially not happening.  Today was the beginning of a new reality.  Although we've been preparing for this in our minds for a long time, after the dust settled last night, it's time to really get busy.  We have just about 3 1/2 weeks to finish everything in this house, pack and move to New York.  Right now it seems pretty impossible, but I know we'll get it done.

Jim did the finishing work on the stove top fan vent today while I was at work.  Can't imagine cutting a hole into our beautiful house but Jim has no fears.

Yikes - giant hole in the house!

Look at all those layers of insulation

Starting to put the vent together

 

Final product - looks great!

 

We've gotten a few other calls about the house, so figured we'd better get the sign down.  Still hard to believe it happened so quickly - the realtor said last night only 7 days on the MLS.  Crazy!

 

 

Taking the For Sale sign down!!

 

Mike came over today to act as inspector of our electric boxes and after that, he helped Jim take the steel table top off and get it into the truck.  Whew - thanks for your muscles, Mike!  Later on, Jim dismantled the rest of it.

And of course the door factory continues to operate.  These are the pieces for the bi fold doors for the closet in my room - they look so little compared to what I'm used to seeing!  I know they are going to look so good.  I feel bad for Jim because he's having to use his Mr. Woodwright skills since his drill press is gone that he used to use to make the mortises. 

Bi fold doors gluing up

 

While Jim was working outside, I figured I had to get really serious about packing.  Thankfully, we have so much cleared out already but there is still a ton left!  We kind of have a game plan - Jim is going to get the Z out of the garage and we will use that bay as our staging area for all the boxes.  We are looking into getting a short-term storage unit here that we can fill up now with boxes and Jim's tools that he's done with.  Then we want to take a truckload of furniture up to NY and get it unloaded at the apartment.  After that we hope to just have one final truckload that we will take up when we are out of here.  Of course, we'll have to come back to pick up what we have in the storage unit here, but that gives us time to catch our breath up there after what is going to be a crazy month.

 

So, I got busy and got the dining room pretty much all packed up - I just had the Depression glass left in the hutch but that takes a long time to pack.  I'll just keep at it everyday.  Unfortunately, these next 3 weeks are the craziest at school, especially with a new secretary.  But I'm trying to leave on time and not work extra like I normally do - just have to get things done here.