poplar road

Well, it's official. We set the possession date at October 6th, and we move most of our belongings - 32 boxes and counting plus most of the furniture - on Sunday the 10th, the Thanksgiving weekend. Our biggest thanks will go to the Olsen twins, who have offered themselves and their truck to help us get from here to Pritchard in one trip if possible.

The plan is to use what we have: the Dodge with canopy, the trailer with sides added (after Mechano has been dropped off at the property on Saturday), and Ben's Dodge, possibly even his trailer if we need it. The essentials I'll need to finish out the month at the apartment will stay until the 30th, but already I have almost everything packed up. The kitchen is beginning to remind me of the camper, and it's getting hard to move around without bruising my hips and smacking my elbows. Of course that might have something to do with me wandering around half dazed from over-excited sleepless nights and too much day-dreaming.

(Is there such a thing as too much day-dreaming?)

The amount of business to take care of just to move, never mind buy the house, is staggering. In addition to the basics - hydro, phone, notice to the landlords - there's forwarding mail, booking the elevator key and padding, notifying all our other services or memberships of the new address, and unfortunately in our case, trying to decide on an internet service provider when the choices are only Telus dial-up versus satellite. Having just put myself on the path to working 3 days a week over the net for the office, a day a week minimum on my sister's website (www.appleturnover.ca), and my spare time apart from renos and fiction on this web log, it's scary to think my life may be in the hands of a 56K modem. Yikes!