Getting Moved to the Country

Crew had an interview and he was going back to Afghanistan to work.  I told him he couldn't leave until we got moved and all the electronics were hooked up.  But, his going back to work in Afghanistan would allow us to do the renovations we wanted to do.

We went and got another truck from U-Haul, Mark and a couple of his buddies came to help us load the truck, My son Jeremy was coming to help us from California and my son Mitch was picking him up at the airport and coming out to the country to stay awhile. We still had the garage and the shed in the backyard to pack up.  We had been boxing up things and taking them to the country house and bringing the boxes back to fill up again.  When you reuse boxes so many times and cross out what was in the box before it can be a little confusing as to what is really in the box if someone just turns it over without marking through the previous contents.  Mark's wife, Mindie, and Mitch's wife Megan helped pack too.  All of them were driving out to the country house and helping unload and help with whatever they could to whip the house into shape.

At this time, our three cats were still at the house in Dallas.  We had Sara taking care of them and we would get them on our next trip.  We had set up the air mattress to use at the Dallas house and left some bathroom items and kitchen items to use while we finished painting and cleaning, getting ready to put that house on the market to sell. 

Basically the setup we had at the country house was being moved to the Dallas house to be used to complete everything there.  We weren't leaving a TV at the Dallas house, we figured we could live without it for a few days of cleaning and paint touch up.  We used boxes instead of the table too.  It was almost like camping out.

Our lawn chair set up at the country house after we had the flooring and the new rug came in.