We had the Tuff Shed, we had the flooring in, we had a lot packed up, we had been making repairs on both houses. We cancelled the movers, now we had to figure out how to move everything from Dallas to Bivins.
We had gotten a lot of boxes from U-Haul, we decided to use a U-Haul truck and take it one-way to the house in the country. We started with the Storage Units, we needed to empty them, I had already given notice but it took awhile to get the Tuff Shed built, we only had a few days left to vacate. One nice thing was all of my storage unit was still packed up, yep it had been that way for 8 years now, with only furniture items being taken out. We decided to hire guys to load the truck, we had the truck...but the first set of guys did not show up! I called and got ahold of more, but they wanted to load up at 9:00 at night! We had a long drive so that was a no go. I got a hold of another set of movers, they had a job already but agreed to come help us for a few hours if we could meet them within half an hour at the storage units after I told them what we needed.
Theses guys were pretty good, they emptied the larger of the two storage sheds in about an hour and forty five minutes. It was jam packed and had a lot of large items in it. We needed them to get the large items out of the second unit before they left and they called their next job and told them they would be a little late so they could get the other unit emptied. They gave us their card and agreed to give us a bid on moving the house, we set up a date for them to come by for a bid...they told us they had a large truck and would charge us half of what the other movers bid.
After the truck was loaded, we went back to the Dallas house and loaded up the back of the pickup truck too, and stuck some of the boxes in the moving truck where we could. Then we drove to the Country house! You talk about tired, we unloaded the truck ourselves, we backed it up to the Tuff Shed after the three hour drive and started unloading boxes. Crew had gotten a piano dolly and somehow we were able to get the huge things out of the truck and into the shed by ourselves. His shoulder was hurting, my knees were killing me. He sent me in the house to fix something to eat...we had to get the U-Haul to Texarkana by 8:00am the next morning. We had to finish unpacking the truck and get it cleaned up by 8:00am or get charged extra. I think I was going too slow for him, I couldn't go up the stairs very fast because of my knees so I would load up the dolly and move things to the end of the ramp and he would run up and down the stairs.
Crew and I were tired, we talked about the remodeling repairs that night and he thought he would try and get a job in Afghanistan again. At least that way we would have the money to pay for getting the repairs made, maybe for a tractor and to help pay down if not pay off the mortgage on the country house. He would be gone for another year, I would be alone in the country...no family or friends around. I figured this was our dream, I could do it for another year...it would be scary, but...well if he could go back to that hell hole, I could be alone in the country working on the house by myself.
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