A sad day on Friday. I sold the blue pickup truck that was Rudy's one and only new vehicle he ever bought. That Ford had kept me cleaned out in the eight winters since Rudy died. I did not drive it nearly enough, so it was a 14 year old truck with just a little over 50,000 miles. My neighbor... the same man who is buying my house... bought the truck. He came over around 2:30 PM, picked up the keys and the title and gave me an envelope full of cash. Yikes... I expected a check. I have never had that much money in cash. I felt much better when I got it deposited into the bank today.
Along with the continual purging and sorting which seems never ending, I started another project to assist with the move. I had done a similar thing, but on a smaller scale, when my father moved from Tennessee to Pennsylvania after my mother had passed away. We made a scale model graph with scale models of furniture. We had eliminated anything that would not fit and already had the furniture arranged before the movers arrived. It had the move done in a very efficient manner. Since I have not really seen my new house in person, I decided to create scale models and measured all of the furniture I plan to bring from here, so I could make sure that I am not bringing anything that will not have a place in the new house.
I started out by finding graphs that were large enough to show each floor of the house. I had thought that the graph I bought was two-sided, but it was not, so I had to get a second one.
So, I took a sketch made for the appraisal and used that to draw the rooms. I think it is pretty close. But next week, when Rob has time to get to the house, I will verify the numbers and add the locations of windows and size of doors and cabinets. I made the furniture models out of graph paper so I could cut out the individual pieces and taped it to the graph. This was the result...
It seemed like the best idea, but the furniture seemed to melt into the background, so it was hard to see if it was the proper arrangement in each room. So I headed for bed to put it in the background to come up with something different.
This morning I had to go to Hershey Motors. We are getting really close to having the things ready to carry a spare tire behind the car on a hitch stand. Then into Downingtown and Exton to get to the bank to deposit the money from the truck sale, BJ's for dog supplies for the trip to Alaska, then a quick stop in a Dollar Tree before heading to White Glove to get the car washed.
Once home, I pulled out some colored card stock that I had, I used the small white representations of furniture and cut out colorful replacements and returned them to the big graphs. I think it has worked very well. I have already rearranged a couple of things and assume I will continue to try new arrangements until I have one that I like for each room There is still a table that may not make the trip to Alaska. Still need to decide on a dining room table, but that will happen after I arrive. Also have to find a couch for the living room and perhaps a new way for the small bedroom. Looking at a Murphy Bed that has a TV stand that moves off to the side when the bed needs to come down. What a wonderful use of space... a small den/TV room that can be a very nice guest room when needed.
Here are some closeups....
I managed to get my second Shingles shot today. I had the first one earlier in the summer and had to wait a couple of months and then hoped the pharmacy would have enough vaccine for the second shot. They had it today, so I am finally as immune as I can be to Shingles. Did not want to have to finish finding the second dose for after I arrived in Alaska. I will have enough to do before the snow flies.
So, I am keeping on with the purging and sorting. I need to have as much done as possible by the 14th which is when pre-move survey happens. Not sure I will be totally ready, but I will keep working to the best of my ability.
I am so ready for this part to be over.....
Can you have the recliner upstairs and leave the dogs downstairs? Just wondering...
ReplyDeleteKate, I do not know. They are used to having the run of the house, but the setup of this house would make it easy to allow them only unlimited access to the lower level. My plan is to limit their access to the upstairs as much as possible to keep the fur and dander to my living space. It may take some time, but they are pretty docile dogs, so once they realize the new rules, they should be content to just curl up and sleep in their space. There is plenty of room to put the recliner in my bedroom and then, perhaps, a sectional in the living room that might allow some flexibility for company and activities. It is all fluid, at the moment.
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