The House is ALMOST Empty - Sunday - February 26, 2012

Nancy and I just got home from delivering furniture to our daughter’s house in Raleigh, NC.  We were thrilled that they wanted and could use quite a bit of our furniture.

Early Friday morning, we rented a 16 foot Penske truck.

With the help of our friend, Bill Jordan,

we had it loaded and ready to go by 9:30am.  

It was loaded with four beds and mattress sets,

a complete living room set, a computer desk,

 a loveseat and lots of large family photos.

We lucked out with the weather.  We managed to get the truck loaded before a major rain and wind storm arrived.  We seemed to out run the storm as we headed north. 

On our way, we made a quick visit to check up on Gin and Syl.  They are camping in the their driveway while they wait to get their house sold.  It is always good to see them, even if it is just a quick visit.  By the way, TAWANDA really takes up a good bit of space in their driveway ;o)) We hope it won’t be long before they will be on the road again!!

We arrived at Julie’s just before dinner time.  We decided to chill Friday evening, give my back a rest and just enjoy time with the grandchildren. 

Early Saturday morning, we began the big switch.  Some of the furniture in the house was carried to the neighbors, some was being donated to a shelter and some was just going to the dump.  Once it was all out of the house, the new things were moved in.

The weather was very cold and windy

so the most important job went to Samantha!!   

She was the designated Door Girl ;o)))   

What a great job she did!!!

By noon, all the furniture was moved in. 

Computer Desk and Sofa look great :o))

Good thing Nancy and Julie like the same colors. 

The gliders and tables look fantastic!!

Emily and Samantha have new beds in their room!!

Daniel now has a set of Mates Beds with lots of drawers

to store all of his Legos!!!

Everyone was thrilled with the new furniture and we were thrilled that we could help them out.   It really was a big help to us as we didn’t have to figure out how to sell and get rid of more “stuff” ;o))

When we got home today,

we laughed about our spacious house.

We now have one chair (to go to Nancy’s mother)

in our living-room along with a TV table and a borrowed lamp!!

The dining-room is the collection point

for the garage sale stuff.

The guest bedroom is EMPTY :o)))

The Guest Bathroom looks quite sterile

since we sold all the tropical décor things ;o((

The treadmill is gone and the bonus room is empty ;o))

The grandchildren’s bedroom is the staging area

 for the things that will be going with us.

It is getting close to time to get our new Winnebago Motorhome.  We are really getting excited.  But we still have many things to take care of such as: Cobra medical insurance, getting our taxes done, rolling over Nancy’s 401K, closing out accounts on our sticks and bricks, getting insurance lined up for the motorhome and a lot of other details.  But it is all GOOD!!!  We will get it done one step at a time. 

Yes, we are on our way:o)))