So it begins…..

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Yesterday we moved to our first temporary home in this new nomadic journey. It was interesting because we loaded up a moving truck with the things we’ll need to get us through the next 6 months but we aren’t ‘done’ with our former property yet. Now we need to go back and deal with donating and junking everything we haven’t been able to sell.

After we finished loading yesterday Sandra sat on the rear bumper of the truck looking at the house. I asked ‘Do you have a sad?’ and she said that yes, she kind of did. I get it. I’ve been having small sads occasionally for a couple of weeks as we get rid of stuff. At the same time, though, I’m way more excited about the retirement part of our new journey.

Working for it

We got unloaded pretty quickly once we got to Redmond. This place is hotel room sized, so, we didn’t bring that much with us anyway. Plus, we are sharing a property with Sandra’s sister and her hubby so he jumped in and helped carry a few things. Which was VERY awesome; made moving the bed a lot easier, too.

Our new digs are a backyard ADU, extremely fortunate that Holly and Kevin were moving at the same time and happened to find this place.

Remember not to forget

Some things were left behind unintentionally, LOL. We got settled in a little bit after we got back from dinner and I went (wifi) ‘Router?’

“sunovabitch”, she says “It was up high so I completely spaced it”

That’s on my list for when we go back out to the old place today. Well, okay, NOW it is…

We have a serious lack of storage here in the new place but I think that a couple of pieces we haven’t sold yet are going to wind up here. There’s a dresser in her office that will become my new nightstand as well as providing a spot for socks and t-shirts. There’s a little wardrobe included here that will hold a few things and probably will help me reduce my clothing stash to travel-size. One of our unsold shoe cubbies is going to get dragged out here, as well.

Big adjustments to be made

Our living room space is now outdoors, very happy that we had invested in the adjustable bed frame so it can double as a sort of pseudo-couch allowing me to sit here and work indoors. We also have the option to invade Holly and Kevin’s space when needed and apparently a lot of the meals will be happening there. Our kitchen is equipped but it’s also maybe 30 square feet and with a queen-sized bed there is no space for a table.

Our Ikea chairs and footstools are okay to live on the covered patio and we should be pretty close to comfortable outdoor living weather.

TIL…

Sort of today, but kind of yesterday…? I thought that I would write about the day at the end of the day. That’s not a thing.

So, yesterday, after I typed out all the bits above this, we went out to the old house to get a few more things. A couple storage solutions things we originally didn’t think we had room for and the foodstuffs. We also had some cleanup help that we hadn’t completely anticipated

A small gesture

Last week we met a gal who had lost everything in a fire last fall. Purely a chance encounter but we asked if there was anything else she needed – furniture and such, especially, because we had stuff that needed to be donated or junked and if she could USE any of it, that would be preferable. Yesterday morning Sandra contacted her about coming to see what we had that she could use and arranged a time.

We told her that of all the stuff there – we had set our remaining items aside – if she could use it or she knew someone who could use it or if she thought she could sell it and use the money; just take it. She had a helper show up with a trailer and said they would take it all. I pointed out some things that maybe were just scrap and she said ‘Nope, we’ll take ALL of it’. They loaded up the trailer and both pickups with stuff from the main house and coming back today to get everything from the old house.

Super excited about her taking so much stuff; other wise I was going to have to make a truckload run to the SuperThrift and then another one to the landfill.

Tuesday’s plan

I’ve been lazing around in bed all morning; now it’s already 8. Need to get on with our day pretty quick. We ran out of steam loading the truck yesterday so it needs to be UNloaded this morning and then head back out to pick up the last couple boxes of food and the stuff from the fridge.

On a weird and unrelated side note, I seem to be sleeping better the last 2 nights and I’m not sure if it’s just due to physical exhaustion or the new environment