Jul 25 2006
We’ve Moved
We finally got it done. Last week (Thursday, July 20, 2006, to be precise), Cowboy Moving & Storage picked up our stuff from the condo and drove it 1.3 miles to our house. Our day began at 6:00 a.m. when we woke up to pack away the last remaining household items. The movers arrived around 8:15 and began right away. There were three guys that did the move, and each one of them was spectacular. They wouldn’t stop for a break, and got everything in the new house by around 2:00. Amazing. We tipped them well.
While the truck was being unloaded, Comcast showed up to install cable, phone and internet, and Sears showed up with the new washer, dryer and refrigerator. It got a bit hectic there for a bit. But it all got done with only one little problem involving a brand new washer tumbling down the basement stairs. (A replacement will be delivered this weekend.)
Dorrie and I really dig our new pad, but we have a lot of work to do. The yard was ignored for more than four months, and as a result we have a weed-infested back yard and nothing but brown matted grass in the front. We planned on relandscaping next spring, but now we are wondering if we are going to need to sod, as well. Also, the A/C froze up the first day we were in the house. I’m sitting here right now waiting for the A/C serviceman to take a look at it. Since that first night, we’ve been running the A/C very lightly and it hasn’t had any problems, so I imagine that we were just running the A/C too hard after the doors had been open all day while the movers moved our stuff in. It probably didn’t help that we didn’t have the temporary blinds installed or any fans running, either.
Our next tasks are to install the three ceiling fans we purchased yesterday and order blinds for every room. Somewhere in the next few weeks I’ll be puttering in the yard, pulling weeds and trying to revive the dying tree in the front lawn.