Moving

The first trip up to the acreage we removed all of the extra seats from both minivans so that they were now small cargo vans. And so began the trips back and forth between the old house and the acreage. We would stay at the old house and load the vans, while Shelly put in her two or three days at the office. We would then drive back up to the acreage where Shelly would finish the week working from our new home. The vans were unloaded and after spending the weekend we drove back to the old house on Sunday to repeat the process. Weeks went by. We enjoyed family and friends visiting to see our new place and managed to build and use a fire ring out of rocks. By mid-September the harvest had begun and the beans were gone from the fields. Finally the day of “the big move” arrived at the end of September. We hired a couple of guys and a truck (you might be able to guess the name of the company) to transport all of our large possessions to the acreage. They loaded the truck the first day and drove up the next day, finishing by early afternoon. We now had almost all of our furniture, which really made a difference in both houses. The old one was emptying out and becoming less familiar as the new one was filling up and becoming more of a home.