In The Blink Of An Eye

Whew!!  That all happened faster than the blink of an eye.  Here I am parked in front of the gate, still wondering how I'm going to get it fixed.  There's no indication of any brand name, so I'm not sure what to Google.  At least my outside lights still work because they can be rather picky.  I think the moon is a nice touch!

 Here we go ..... Dan and I got most of the stuff out of the back first.  Ten minutes later, my Knight from from the Round Table of Bingo came by with one of his best hands ... my friend the tractor driver from the Pumpkin Patch.  I called out where stuff went and they took it there.  You can barely walk through my house.

A few minutes later the two kids from next door came over to lift the heavy stuff.  You're not going to believe it ... we unloaded that truck completely in 25 minutes.  We were like a bunch of ants cleaning out after a rainstorm!!

We had just enough time to return the truck.  It was another epic phone check-out process.  We had to take pictures of the mileage, the gas gauge, every side of the truck and where it was parked.  They dinged me for $18 in fuel because they said it had more when we left Tucson.  I took this picture to prove that we left the stuff inside the truck.

Of course the place was locked up, and we couldn't find where to drop the keys.  Finally on the way out, Dan spotted a lock box on the telephone pole and VOILA! we were done.

Starving, we made a quick right turn into Mickey D's for an egg McMuffin.  Boy did that ever taste good!!

Of course I couldn't come home without some kind of repair problem to take care of.  The ice maker quit, and I've had trouble with the ice door for years.  I can't believe I looked online and found a local repair guy that not only knew how to fix it, he has the exact same fridge himself ... and he has fixed the same thing.

It took quite some time, but I now have ice.  I might have just gone and BOUGHT ice for the next 5 years, because it cost of $800 for the repair.  AND he had to order a few more parts he'll put in later ... for free thank goodness.  What the heck ... it's only money, but I needed an aspirin after the shock wore off.

Dan and I continued unloading stuff from my rig.  First we rolled an old printer out the door where it will sit until it goes to Landfill Heaven.  It's a relic of my old photography days.  Then we unloaded the end rails from my quilting machine that were my bed rails for the last three days.

At that point, it was computer time.  We made Dan's return flight for Friday, but it would be better if he could fly out today.  At long last I got an agent on the phone and we were able to change the reservation.  Printing out boarding passes wasn't the easiest to accomplish.  After several attempts, Dan finally got them on HIS phone, so we'll be driving to Fresno today.  

At long last, it was time.  You knew where we were going for dinner.  Habit Burger is the name of the game at my house, and it just happens to live a couple miles away.  I ate every single bit of it!!

And so the big epic move is complete.  Now comes the hard part ... trying to find a place for all this stuff.  Although I'm a packrat and find it very hard to get rid of anything that is still useful, I will force myself to donate SOME stuff.  The rest can live in boxes in the garage, because you never know ... I may find the perfect little house somewhere that needs a part time visitor.

Oh wait ... there is yet another repair needed.  The garage door wouldn't stay open, so I propped it up with a ladder.  I'll have to call for that repair today.  It is just never ending!!

The best news ... I got a great night's sleep on my new-to-this-house mattress.  

Let the box unboxing and furniture rearranging begin!!!