Moving Underway

It was a very, very busy day yesterday and one in which we made some huge progress in getting our space cleared out at the resort. I picked up the cargo trailer (rented for two days) from U Haul right at 9 AM and we were loading up before 10 AM. On the first load, our goal was to load the outside furniture and get as much of that moved  as possible along with some of the boxes we had already packed. We came close to getting all the furniture loaded for the first trip, but we had to leave behind three of our gazebo chairs for the second trip. We had lots of boxes to load and we also filled the Jeep with those once we had everything in the trailer that would fit.

Here are a couple shots of the morning loading effort:

Our first trip was a fast one as we had everything emptied out and in the house by just after noon. The furniture was placed around back on the patio and stones to the side of the patio, and we placed everything else in the garage so that nothing would interfere with the carpet laying scheduled for Tuesday.

We stopped at the Village Inn up the street from the house to have lunch before heading home to get the second load.

We really made good progress in emptying the trailer and getting the shed emptied. One problem we discovered was that the shed was too heavy - even emptied - to move ourselves. So, I will take it apart this morning and load the pieces in the trailer. There aren't a whole lot of areas yet to empty with the largest being the basement of the trailer which really isn't too bad. I expect to have all the boxes done and the basement emptied by the end of the day. That is, with the exception of the things we will need for the rest of this week.

Here is a shot of our space that is now almost emptied except for the amenities that are being purchased (hopefully) by the person taking over our space from us:

There a few calls that will be made today to schedule a couple other services - such as Coit to do the tile floors and DirecTV to arrange for satellite TV service. We are moving along now...