When you drive some of your belongings during a military move, you can file to have the government reimburse you at 95% of what the government would have had to pay a shipping company. To do this, you have to weigh your vehicles before and after loading. Here’s our completely loaded Pilot with trailer (the … Read more
I’m stealing this picture from Dave and his latest blog entry. Tonight we loaded up a U-Haul trailer with his model train layout. By leaving the legs up on the two parts of the layout, we have a plethora of space underneath that I found no problem filling with a couple dozen bankers boxes with … Read more
So here I am, sitting in an empty house. It took about 3 1/2 days, and it filled 2/3 of a 53′ trailer! But it’s done, and we now are living with a minimum of stuff in our house. Folks have been asking “Why aren’t you in the Transient Lodging (on base hotel, more or … Read more
The movers are here — they’re packing up. It’s a slow start, since it took some time to bring in all the packing materials. One of the guys had just rolled in this morning from a delivery to Arkansas — so he’s nursing the cans of Rock Star while he packs. So far they seem … Read more
Okay, for me personally, it’s a day late and a dollar short…since we’re leaving in a week. I’m a huge Trader Joe’s fan! I can’t say exactly when I first went there. I know it was about 10 years ago and it was either the one in Commack, NY with my in-laws, or else in … Read more
Whether you knew of it as the APRS station DW3809 or as Wunderground Station KNEBELLE12, this afternoon we disassembled the weather station and will set it up in a couple weeks in Navarre, FL. I’m in the process of deleting our Wunderground tags from this blog and our Vollmer Family homepage. I hope you enjoyed … Read more
I actually blogged about this a little back in 2008. Moving preparations continue. We are at T-3 days until the packers come. T-9 days until we leave the area. We are starting to gather the items we don’t want the movers to pack. Some of the items are for our personal use for the week … Read more
T-10 Days and counting…. I was thinking about new things to blog about regarding this particular move and it was a friend from North Carolina (Hi Faith T.!) who inspired me about my next post: The Vollmer PCS Binder (TM). So, I’m sure you’re wondering, “Major Mom, what, pray tell, IS The Vollmer PCS Binder … Read more
Jacob and Timmy wore their Halloween costumes to school today. It turns out Jacob and another classmate both happened to have “Luigi” costumes. In fact, I got a picture of the two of them! From 2010 10 29 Timmy Jacob Halloween Parade 2010 The boys had a good time with their Halloween parade at school, … Read more
This weekend we finally took some time to get into the Halloween spirit. Friday we went to the Bellevue Pumpkin Patch to choose the family pumpkins, then the boys had a chance to wear their Halloween costumes both Saturday and Sunday. First of all, if you like this picture below, then click the link here … Read more