The last time I wrote, we had made an offer on a house and were awaiting inspections. At the time it felt like there would be a lot of waiting and not much else. Wrong! There was packing, a lot of packing, review the inspection reports, renegotiate, renegotiate, more packing, signing more papers, getting bids on repair items, more negotiating. And packing.
Our closing date got moved because the appraiser had a family emergency and there was a mad scramble to find another one. The appraisal was done but then there's a mandatory 3-day waiting period before funds can be disbursed. Then there was the scary email that appeared to come from the Escrow company stating that the down payment could be wired any time. Thankfully Randy was suspicious enough that he called the number to verify and found out it was a fake. From then on everything was done in person. The funds went where they were supposed to go and we got the keys on May 2. Exactly one month ago.
Randy rounded up a few friends and big truck to move everything. I finished packing the kitchen then helped load. We needed the big truck and every single vehicle that showed up to help. Unloading at the new house was fairly easy, although we weren't sure where some things were ultimately going to end up.
Then unpacking begins. Where to put stuff? Especially in the kitchen. How does stuff work in this house? We got the bed set up and the kitchen minimally unpacked, set up the dining room table and brought in the stuffed chairs. Minimal but enough to go on for the weekend.
Unpacking continues as does the work around the place to get the fences and stable returned to horse pasture and stalls from chicken coop and piggery. It's mowing season so that time needs to be factored in. Every day up at the barn I find new little projects to fix. The fence posts are in; need to string wire. The paddocks have the weeds knocked down; need to remove the composted material from the piggery to avoid mud this winter. The chicken coop accoutrements have been knocked down and bolt removed that were sticking out; wire around the base of the paddocks needs to be removed. I have two electric fence chargers and need to figure out how to hook them up to the electric poly tape that I will string eventually.
For every project I accomplish, I find more little things that need to be done. Sometimes figuring out how to solve some of these problems takes longer and is harder than the actual physical labor clearing fence line, weed eating, mowing, pounding fence posts, digging out the piggery.
I'm sore, I'm tired and ready to have some fun. In the meantime, if anyone knows how to remove old gross automatic waterers, let me know!