Busy day...
The day started at 7am, which was a bit earlier than I would have liked, having stayed up too late last night chatting with sorien and some other nice folks on FurryMUCK. My real-estate agent had phoned yesterday to say that there was a requested showing today (yay!) and she left a message on the answering machine with the time for it. One of my top "need to do" things on this trip was to finally clean the fish tank (sent the fish to a new home last time) and that's what I was doing by 7:30am. It took about two-and-a-half hours, at which time I double-checked the answering machine and found out that the showing was at 11am, not noon as I thought I had heard. Ooops!!! I had just enough time for a quick shower and to tidy things up before I left (at 10:50am), and I actually passed the agent and client coming up the road to view the house. That was cutting it a little too close.
I spent the next five hours trying to get the rest of the parts I needed for the generator connection, and I actually succeeded in doing so. I just hadn't planned on it taking five hours. :/ Mind, over an hour of that was spent at Costco trying to pick up a few items we needed. Of course, I've now realized that I forgot a couple of things, so I need to go back again. trixstir called me on my cell phone while I was in Costco, telling me that Lanes 5 and 6 had suddenly shut down. I wasn't able to trouble-shoot it over the phone with her, so now we're down to three working lanes until I can get out there. I was supposed to head out tomorrow morning, but that's not going to happen. For starters, the weather has been calling for snow, but it's been saying that all day and there hasn't been a flake to be seen. With any luck, there won't be any tomorrow either, and I can spend most of the day loading the trailer.
Mom came over just before 5pm (20 minutes after I got home) and she stayed until just before midnight, helping me pack up more stuff. I had thought that we could pack the downstairs cabinets in about two hours, but that estimate was clearly way off. Six hours of packing (we took an hour off to watch the Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes) and the cabinets are almost done. I'm definitely going to need more boxes, despite the lot that I scavanged from Costco this afternoon. On the plus side, we got a lot of packing done, so I'll definitely have a full load to take back to the farm.
So, with any luck we'll be heading back to the farm on Thursday morning, but even that's up in the air as it pretty much all depends on what the weather does for the next couple of days. The forecast is very promising; There's supposed to be a skiff of snow tomorrow (about 1cm) and then the temperature goes back up into the high single digits for the rest of the week with no further precipitation! So, here's hoping that forecast is accurate, as I really need to get back to the farm ASAP.