Sunset Photos From Saturday 6/6/15
Yesterday evening I looked out our top floor balcony window as the sun was descending low in the sky. There were clouds being lit up from behind by the slowly fading sun. I decided that the boxing of our belongings for the upcoming move could wait for a bit. I wanted to get back to something that I enjoy doing but have had very little chance at doing it. So I grabbed my camera and headed out to the "point" very near to where we live. It felt good to be taking photos again and below are some captures from yesterdays sunset over Blount Bay and Colington Harbour/Island.
Upcoming Move Update
We have picked a local mover to take our belongings to Virginia Beach. We have been busy boxing our things up and once a week we have been taking our packed vehicles up to my Dads place. There we unpack and start the process of putting things away. Last week Veronica and I took the whole day pulling everything out of the kitchen drawers and cabinets. We weeded through quite a bit so that we could incorporate some of our things with some of Dads items. We kept the best of both of our belongings for the use by all of us. What we weeded out was put in the garage and added to the previously built pile. This afternoon the Salvation Army showed up and happily took away the donated pile of items with my Dads blessings. Then came the real work..scraping and cleaning the double stick tape off of the fronts of most of the kitchen cabinet shelves, which was a very time consuming job that was only slightly made easier using a lot of Goo Gone. We started early in the morning and did not finish until late in the day
Our movers will be here on Monday the 15th. We have already taken most of Veronica's Ikea brand studio furniture. The movers will take her 2 last pieces that we could not handle along with the remaining few pieces that we have. Serious downsizing causes one to purge many belongings that they would not usually sell and or get rid of. Although all of our furniture will be up at my Dads place Veronica and I will still be residing in our Outer Banks residence for another couple of months. Our lease does not expire until August 31st. Between the move and the end of our lease we will still have a bunch of packing and making additional trips to my Dads place. While we have been staying at Dads place Veronica and I have been sleeping on a real nice air mattress. Since our bedding from our condo on the Outer Banks will be taken up to Dads place during the upcoming move, We will then bring the air mattress back to our condo for the duration of our stay there. We are slowly getting things done and the place is starting to look somewhat empty. I will be so glad when this whole moving adventure is completed. All I have to do is look at a box and my back starts barking at me....which has been a daily routine basically from the time I wake up until I finally get to sleep.
Our movers will be here on Monday the 15th. We have already taken most of Veronica's Ikea brand studio furniture. The movers will take her 2 last pieces that we could not handle along with the remaining few pieces that we have. Serious downsizing causes one to purge many belongings that they would not usually sell and or get rid of. Although all of our furniture will be up at my Dads place Veronica and I will still be residing in our Outer Banks residence for another couple of months. Our lease does not expire until August 31st. Between the move and the end of our lease we will still have a bunch of packing and making additional trips to my Dads place. While we have been staying at Dads place Veronica and I have been sleeping on a real nice air mattress. Since our bedding from our condo on the Outer Banks will be taken up to Dads place during the upcoming move, We will then bring the air mattress back to our condo for the duration of our stay there. We are slowly getting things done and the place is starting to look somewhat empty. I will be so glad when this whole moving adventure is completed. All I have to do is look at a box and my back starts barking at me....which has been a daily routine basically from the time I wake up until I finally get to sleep.
Life Has Turned Rather Hectic
I haven't written any blog entries lately due to so much that is currently going on in our lives. Veronica has been working on getting transferred to the Hampton Roads area so that we can live and be available should dad need our help. We will actually be really close to him since we will be moving into his home. We have been busy bringing load after load of our furniture on our weekly runs and visit to his home. I was taking him to physical therapy which he had 3 times a week but he has since stopped going because he is feeling much better. I also have been taking him most of the time to his dialysis appointments 3 times a week. Veronica has been giving me a few breaks on taking Dad to his dialysis. We both have taken him to the grocery store where he gets a good workout pushing the cart up and down each isle. Veronica loves baking him his goodies. We both cook for him...he loves his fish and then there is laundry. Lets just say that all of this is very time consuming but we would not have it any other way.
Since we will be downsizing from a 1500sf residence down to maybe a 600sf place we decided to have a garage sale at our place on the Outer Banks. Because Dad had so much stuff in the garage and around the house he asked us to go through it all and take with us whatever we thought would sell at our garage sale. So for the next 3 runs up to his place with pieces of our furniture in the back of our vehicle we unloaded our furniture into our new home and packed the back of our vehicle up with stuff for the garage sale. We ended up having 2 garage sales on back to back Saturdays. We kept a monetary tally of what Dads stuff sold for so we could give him his money from this garage sale.
Tonight we head back down to our place on the Outer Banks. Tomorrow morning I will start to pack up and box all of our belongings up in preparation for the movers to come. I talk as if we have the movers all picked and set up. I have one of the very few movers in our area coming in our place tomorrow to give us an estimate. The company that is coming in for the estimate is part of the Wheaton Moving Company chain.
We are hoping to have the movers pick our stuff up around 6/15 and by the next day we should be in our new home. Got a lot of things to get done between now and then so I am sure that our hectic lives will continue for a bit.
Since we will be downsizing from a 1500sf residence down to maybe a 600sf place we decided to have a garage sale at our place on the Outer Banks. Because Dad had so much stuff in the garage and around the house he asked us to go through it all and take with us whatever we thought would sell at our garage sale. So for the next 3 runs up to his place with pieces of our furniture in the back of our vehicle we unloaded our furniture into our new home and packed the back of our vehicle up with stuff for the garage sale. We ended up having 2 garage sales on back to back Saturdays. We kept a monetary tally of what Dads stuff sold for so we could give him his money from this garage sale.
Tonight we head back down to our place on the Outer Banks. Tomorrow morning I will start to pack up and box all of our belongings up in preparation for the movers to come. I talk as if we have the movers all picked and set up. I have one of the very few movers in our area coming in our place tomorrow to give us an estimate. The company that is coming in for the estimate is part of the Wheaton Moving Company chain.
We are hoping to have the movers pick our stuff up around 6/15 and by the next day we should be in our new home. Got a lot of things to get done between now and then so I am sure that our hectic lives will continue for a bit.
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