Almost Ready For The Truck!

In less than forty-eight hours the UPack truck will be pulling into our driveway to be loaded.  Friday night we are inviting people to come help us load.  We are just about ready for that event.  Still more things in the cellar plus the things in our bedroom need to come down, but those are pretty much last minute things.

One thing I decided to do is to put all the clothing, etc I need until 7 August (which is probably the latest that the truck will arrive at our house in South Carolina) in my carry-on bag and everything else will go in my big suitcase and be packed onto the truck.  The idea is meant to please Dear One who does not want to have a heavy car for this run to South Carolina.  The trip to Oregon was a totally full and heavy car.  The trip to Vermont was pretty much the same, only a little lighter.  This time, maybe only a few things in the car.  We shall see.

This is the view from the stairs...only a small part of the stuff.  J and A will be SO HAPPY to get back their living room.  It has been a trial for everyone to have no living room for almost a month  Almost back to normal. 

So--48 hours to loading time, then 36 hours after that we head south.  We will be going to my sister's house for a couple of days  to visit, decompress, and to help a friend with family history concerns, then on to the end of the road in Sumter, South Carolina.  After which another side of the real work begins...the truck will show up with our stuff, we will unload into the garage, then box by box move the contents to their final resting places.  We will acquire furnishings piece by piece as we are able.  (This is just to give fair warning that visitors will get to sleep on the floor for the foreseeable future...!)