Various things as we prepare to move out
Weather is mild, but so many leaves (and acorns) are falling, and the wind rattles them so much on our roof, it keeps sounding like it’s raining. We got a warning weeks ago to hook up our heated hoses to prevent freezing of the water lines, but we’re moving out in less than two weeks and I’m watching the weather forecasts; the projected low don’t fall under the low 40s, so I expect we can make it out without having to take that step.
We have almost half the large storage area cleared out - five boxes taken care of yesterday - but a substantial amount of that has gone into the smaller storage. Some of the latter will be sifted later and dealt with, but for now it’s a matter of bringing back the boxes and sorting the contents into three basic categories: throw away, give away (either to people we know or to the Salvation Army), or pack away (to keep or to deal with later). Susan has some discouragement as regards the slow progress, but we really are getting there … and the deeper we go, the more there is that we won’t be keeping. We won’t finish the large storage this year, but there are good reasons to believe that, when we come back next year, we can complete processing the remainder; then will remain only going through the small storage room to work out what to do with the remainder. I’d rather get rid of all of it … but, while Susan is more sentimental than I am about a lot, even I have things I’m not ready to dispense with entirely. We’ll just see how it goes.
Our daughter called us yesterday morning from Ireland, and Susan talked with her for nearly two hours. (I followed the conversation, and even took part in some of it, but it was mostly them.) This doesn’t come as often as we might prefer, but is always welcome. It didn’t hurt that our son called from China on his way home from work. He’d just been approved for a green card - after 10 years there - and was in good spirits because this will simplify a number of things for him as he goes forward, even though his eventual plan is to return to the U.S.
So this is where we are, till we’re somewhere else.