The last few days have been really full!!
Friday - (10/23) Rod and I both took off from work to begin the moving process. We had one of my friends (Shelli) and her kids (Zac and Hayley) come help us. We thought we had a lot of things packed but there was still so much STUFF!
Saturday - still more moving. On this day, My Mom and Mother-in-law came to help and Shelli and her family were still there. Again still MORE STUFF... By Saturday night we still did not have the house empty. Shelli, Zac, Hayley, Tori, Tina, Rod and myself spent the last night in our home that we had lived in for over 10 years.
Sunday - Shelton, Rod's step-dad came to help Rodney and Zac. The last heavy stuff went to the container and sheds. We had to use the 40' shipping container, TWO 10 X 10 storage units and all the cars are still packed. As if we didn't have enough to do on Sunday.... we also borrowed the horse trailer and brought home a new pot-bellied pig. We are hoping Dolly will be a Mollys buddy and friend. But right now they don't like each other.
Sunday Night - First night in the camper! It was hard. Crammed full with tons of stuff. Hard to move around, rabbits in the floor, dogs barking at the pig at 4:00 am, etc. I worried all night how long the generator was going to last. Since once it quits.. no heat. But it lasted all night long.
Monday morning - hectic. Rod and I were both off from work to close on the house. We got up early and all went to the old house to take one last shower. Teary eyed is how I was most of the morning. Rod had to go to Steiner Lift to take a load of junk metal while I was left frantically getting all of the rest of the STUFF out of the house. I really don't know when/how we accumulated so much junk. We left to close on the house with a load of trash left to haul off, the surround sound still up, and the chickens still in the coup. After the closing we all went back to the house with the new owners and took care of all the last minute items.
Monday night - ok, good grief.. more rain. The rush to move everything had many items left outside and not covered. Rain was in the forcast for Monday night and all day on Tuesday. Rod and I had to work until about 10:30 cramming stuff (yes another reference to all the STUFF) in the container.
Tuesday morning - First morning where everyone had to work. Tori was the first to try the shower at 5:30 in the morning.... A 5 gallon water heater only lasted about 2 minutes of shower time once she got the water right and finally got in there. She got out and was freezing! It heated back up and Rod did take one and he was able to do it quick enough. I ended up giving up and just working from home. Which meant we ran the generator all day. But it did fine and I was able to work sucessfully from my aircard just fine.
Tuesday evening - We took the rabbits to the "foster" home. Glad to get them out of the floor. We also had an issue with Sugar (one of the dogs) and Dolly (new pig). Sugar is posessive and they ended up fighting...
We also went to buy a 2nd camper. We got it home at about 10:30 last night. Didn't have any time to get it hooked up to the generator or anything so we all still slept in the original one. We had run the primary camper out of water. Since Rod has not run electrical to the well at 10:30 last night he had to put the generator on the tractor on haul it over well. String all the hose pipes together (including the new one we had to stop and buy on the way to get the camper). Turn on the pump, fill up the fresh water holding tank, disconnect the generator, haul it back to the camper, and plug it back in... Late night last night...
Wednesday morning - ok, forget the water heater this morning. Tori, Tina and myself needed showers.. Mom and Dad here we come. Rod did take a shower in the camper and he was fine. I think the girls and I are going to just go to Mom and Dad's until we get some type of instant hot water heater.
Stay tuned, will post pictures in the next day or two of the 2nd camper and Dolly.
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