The washers and dryers here are ENORMOUS!!!
A week’s worth of laundry for a family of 4 all fit into ONE washer!
I’ve divided the clothes among 3 dryers to save a little time.
Welcome home!!
Many of you already know that we are intending to live in our nearly empty house for the next week or so…
But as you can see in the picture, it really isn’t so bad. We held on to our small TV/DVD combo unit, our Direct TV DVR reciever, and our Wii. All that stuff is sitting on a lightweight aluminum camping table. This week we let Jake buy Lego Star Wars, The Complete Saga for Wii and he’s really been enjoying it.
You can also see the small camping chair next to Jacob…that’s Timmy’s.
This is our stairway…these guys were sending the boxes FLYING down
our stairs…
I’m very glad the boys didn’t see this!
Throw everything you DON’T want the packers to move into one room, close/lock/put a tape “X” over the door and make it the “Do Not Pack” room. In this case, you’re looking at Timmy’s room, emptied of his belongings. Pardon the mess, today we were trying to keep one step ahead of the packers, coming up with additional things that we needed to stash in that room.
Once the movers are through, we will redistribute what’s in this room a little better. We’re staying in our house for 9 days until closing…then we’ll stay in a hotel for 4 days. By the way, everything in this room has to fit into our Odyssey, Prius, and the car top carriers for both vehicles…plus space for the boys and the dog. I have a U-Haul small trailer reserved just in case we’re WAY overboard, but I don’t think we will be.
PS: Ever heard of Freecycle? It’s my new best friend for getting rid of stuff without having to load it all into the car. I’ve signed up for both Wake County, NC’s and Sarpy County, NE’s. This past weekend someone Freecycled a new X-Box!!!! I’ll be offering up a lot of stuff once the movers are done here. Some of it is on Craig’s List right now, but not going anywhere.
Tape the remote to the home electronics. Do this with any pertinent
cables too.
I have been sitting on this for long enough. My poor brain kept prioritizing things all wrong, so now it’s getting sorted out. I need to pass on the Excellent Blog Award before I pack up this laptop tomorrow, since the ExcellentBlog.jpg file is on this hard drive. Tee hee.
I had actually decided on this Memorial Day weekend, when this individual posted 7 times on Memorial Day alone!
Fotomom, you’re getting the Excellent Blog award! Your fun mix of watching your boys grow up with your beautiful photos of flowers, animals, and the ever-shrinking central North Carolina countryside is most awesome. Keep up the great work, I’ll definitely need you to when I’m in NE and it’s the only way I’m going to see Joey and Johnny (sniff sniff).
As of 1800 Sunday, July 6th, 2008, we have to bid farewell to the KNCAPEX18 Weather Station site on Wunderground.com. The packers start tomorrow and the weather station needs to come with us to Nebraska. Stay tuned for our weather station’s new location in Bellevue, NE sometime the first week of August.
Sniff sniff…
The current battery count. This takes care of all the boys’ toys.
This weekend I’ll take care of the remote controls and spare
flashlights.
I’ve had to upgrade to a larger storage container.
Hi friends!
Okay, okay, I’m sure you’re growing sick of my super-brief postings about the nitnoid things that I’m doing to prepare the house for the move.
Not interesting!
Unfortunately, there isn’t too much interesting stuff going on during the week. This week, Jake is in an ice skating camp. It’s crossed my mind to sneak over tomorrow while he’s on the ice and grab a couple of pictures…he said he’s having a “pretty good time” and today he was skating on his own already, so I’m guessing he might have quite a bit of confidence by his last day, Thursday.
Every weekend has been full of family activities. As is typical just before one of our moves, Dave and I attempt to cram in as much activity as possible…in this case, we’re getting all the North Carolina we can! This past Sunday we went to the beach with the Goldmans. I also have some pictures from our trip, but they aren’t captioned yet. And as always, Maryann’s are much better!
Saturday was the Goldman’s annual “Patriotic Party”, which is placed somewhere in the 2nd half of June between Memorial Day and Independence Day. This is our 3rd year taking part, and as usual, it was a blast!
(Enjoy this precious picture I caught with Maryann’s camera of the boys sharing a Sit ‘n Spin…for once they weren’t fighting!)
This weekend, we’re joining the Warlicks on an overnight trip to the mountains and Charlotte. We’re planning a visit to the Linville Falls, then on to Charlotte where we’re planning a tour of Lowe’s Motor Speedway and then spending the afternoon at the Discovery Place museum.
And the following weekend will be our last Durham Bulls game (sniff sniff!). We’ll join the Warlicks for that too.
Dave’s dissertation work is in the final stages; after the Air Force gives its public release blessing, he gets to release it to the graduate school for official publication. That will probably happen next week.
He was excited to receive an e-mail today from the editor of the Monthly Weather Review, one of our field’s premier peer-reviewed journals (think New England Journal of Medicine for meteorologists!) asking to review an article related to weather phenomena in Korea. Wow! Dave, reviewing MWR articles!
I couldn’t be more proud!
So on tomorrow’s docket:
1.) Buy some bright-colored sticky Post-It Notes to start marking the “Do Not Pack” items.
2.) Schedule canceling utilities in NC
3.) Schedule turning on utilities in NE
4.) Keep Timmy happy. We might take a trip to the pool, maybe I can do the cancellations/turning ons from the pool deck? What a life!
That’s how much beer I just dumped down our kitchen sink.
My current mission: To combine the contents of our garage fridge with our kitchen fridge. The garage fridge is moving with us to NE, while the kitchen fridge will stay here, so I need to get the thing emptied and thawed before Monday.
Most of the contents of the garage fridge was beverages, plus any overstocks on frozen foods (like spare whole fryer chickens and frozen waffles). So beer, soda and juice boxes.
Last summer, towards the end of our Ft. Fisher vacation, Dave and Andy bought a 24-pack of Coors Light. I think Dave was thinking, “Hey, Andy’s from Colorado, maybe he drinks it.” Nope.
So we kept the extra cans in our fridge from the end of our vacation last July until now. I just noticed that there’s a 2 Sep 07 expiration date on the cans.
14 cans, 12 oz. per can = 168 oz. Down the drain.
Alcohol abuse at the max!
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