Moving…Day 1

Where in the world have you been?

The question has been asked over and over the last week and a half. Now that we are (sort of) settled in and have internet service I promise I’ll start to update the blog more regularly.

The guys from Two Men and a Truck showed up on Tuesday morning (a week ago) at 8:30 am to start the moving process. A better name for the service we used might be Five Guys and Two Trucks. The first photo below shows the whole crew as they worked to pack the last few items into the big truck just before the first trip to the new house. The filled the 26 foot straight truck and 3/4 ton van twice as they moved 90% of our belongings. 

The next photo shows the back end of the straight truck as yet another item makes its way up the ramp. Deb had about 225 boxes prepared and had already moved most of the kitchen essentials on Monday.

The “L” Shaped House…Wrapping up

A couple of loyal followers of this blog have asked “where have you been the last few days”?

Well…Paul Winters and the JLM folks have been busily working to finish up a few details required by the City of Minnetonka before issuing a “certificate of occupancy”. They have also been working to finish installing bath accessories and fixtures throughout the living spaces as they prepare the house for our arrival. The four photos below show the results of some of these efforts. In the first photo we see the house number attached to the front wall of the house as required by the city.

The next photo shows a landing installed at the bottom of the bonus room stairs that “corrects” a tread height inconsistency caused by my desire to have rubber tread surfaces on the first two stairs. The third photo shows one of the towel bars in the master bathroom installed by Paul as he works his way through the house installing towel bars, hooks, and mirrors.

The fourth photo shows new towel bars installed in the kids bathroom on the second floor. These finishing touches make the “L” Shaped House seem more like a home every day.

All this week’s activity provides a nice transition to the really big news that…

WE HAVE A MOVING DATE! 

On September 28th (next Wednesday) our friends from Two Men And A Truck are scheduled to show up at our current home and move our belongings to the “L” Shaped House (the big stuff…anyway). Deb…with a whole lot of help from both Ronda and Ingrid…has been busy sorting, purging, cleaning, and packing the contents of our home into moving boxes since the beginning of July this year. At last count there were more than 100 moving boxes packed and ready to go piled all over inside our home. Deb and Ingrid plan to pack and move the remaining contents of our kitchen into the “L” Shaped House on Monday and Tuesday next week.

Sam and I talked about how our lives will change as the reality of all this started to really sink in on our way home from Karate in downtown Hopkins last night. The next couple of weeks are going to be BIG!