Moving Day was yesterday...
Feb. 22nd, 2009 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo yesterday we hired the big truck (hired it Friday, actually) and at 9:30 am our moving crew showed up to help us move. The big bookcases that my parents gave us for our wedding were loaded up and tied in, as was the futon-couch that Callie gave me when she got her new couch. Kip's extra heavy bookcase went, as did the (emptied) file cabinets, the coffee table, the cedar chest, the strongback and its sawhorses, and three folding bookcases.
Plus some boxes of stuff that were lying around vulnerable.
We got it all carefully moved into the correct rooms, with no damage to speak of either to houses or to furniture. Then we fed our crew pizza (dim sum not being an option) and turned them loose. We were taking some stuff to Goodwill, only to discover that Goodwill had closed, when I remembered there was a Habitat For Humanity Thrift Store a few blocks from our house. While we were dropping off our donation there, I remembered that Kip hates our flimsy fold-up dining table (to be fair, it has folded in an unscheduled way a time or two), and wandered into the back of the store, despite Kip's grimaces. He had to agree that while we had the moving truck was a perfect time to find a new dining room table--and lo and behold, I did. A very nice one with a solid wood top (many boards but not plywood) and a leaf to expand it, and four chairs that went with it and they were all sturdy and not wobbly. It was 325 dollars, which is um, a chunk, but I think it was worth it. And it was no trouble at all bringing it home in the truck--at least, nothing like the kind of trouble it would have been to bring it home in one of our cars. So that worked out well.
Then we picked up some cleaning supplies and treats and Kip called the two students who were on standby to earn some money that weekend and went back to the old house. They cleaned, and I loaded up the canoe and the wood-trough (which had been too long to load into the moving truck (!)) and brought them to The Lair and put them away. Kip and I removed more boxes of odds and ends. When we ran out of light and inspiration we took the cleaners to Subway and then turned them loose. They will come back tomorrow afternoon to get any odds and ends that we missed in the dark.
I spent some time today trying to figure out how to set up the garage at The Lair as my workshop. I'm very psyched about having a workshop that actually has, like, walls to keep the rain out. However I will have to share it with the canoe and 2 recumbent bikes...and I would like to set up the workbench to take full advantage of the windows and the plug-ins, but still be able to fold it away to let the car in, if necessary (though that would mean moving the canoe and the bikes. I'd also like the workbench to be really sturdy and not wobbly. This may involve 4 x 4s and drilling into the masonry, so I'd like to get it right the first time.. In the meantime I have put the paddle rack on the wall by the door into the house, because, of course, it's not really home until you can hang up your paddles.
Plus some boxes of stuff that were lying around vulnerable.
We got it all carefully moved into the correct rooms, with no damage to speak of either to houses or to furniture. Then we fed our crew pizza (dim sum not being an option) and turned them loose. We were taking some stuff to Goodwill, only to discover that Goodwill had closed, when I remembered there was a Habitat For Humanity Thrift Store a few blocks from our house. While we were dropping off our donation there, I remembered that Kip hates our flimsy fold-up dining table (to be fair, it has folded in an unscheduled way a time or two), and wandered into the back of the store, despite Kip's grimaces. He had to agree that while we had the moving truck was a perfect time to find a new dining room table--and lo and behold, I did. A very nice one with a solid wood top (many boards but not plywood) and a leaf to expand it, and four chairs that went with it and they were all sturdy and not wobbly. It was 325 dollars, which is um, a chunk, but I think it was worth it. And it was no trouble at all bringing it home in the truck--at least, nothing like the kind of trouble it would have been to bring it home in one of our cars. So that worked out well.
Then we picked up some cleaning supplies and treats and Kip called the two students who were on standby to earn some money that weekend and went back to the old house. They cleaned, and I loaded up the canoe and the wood-trough (which had been too long to load into the moving truck (!)) and brought them to The Lair and put them away. Kip and I removed more boxes of odds and ends. When we ran out of light and inspiration we took the cleaners to Subway and then turned them loose. They will come back tomorrow afternoon to get any odds and ends that we missed in the dark.
I spent some time today trying to figure out how to set up the garage at The Lair as my workshop. I'm very psyched about having a workshop that actually has, like, walls to keep the rain out. However I will have to share it with the canoe and 2 recumbent bikes...and I would like to set up the workbench to take full advantage of the windows and the plug-ins, but still be able to fold it away to let the car in, if necessary (though that would mean moving the canoe and the bikes. I'd also like the workbench to be really sturdy and not wobbly. This may involve 4 x 4s and drilling into the masonry, so I'd like to get it right the first time.. In the meantime I have put the paddle rack on the wall by the door into the house, because, of course, it's not really home until you can hang up your paddles.
