Down Country Paths. #7

Good morning everyone! Well, yesterday it rained all day and it was cool, only 59F (15C) for a high. Today is not supposed to be much better for temperature, but perhaps less rain. It was sunny, beautiful blue sky, and now it is cloudy once again. There is supposed to be some amount of rain every day for the next 8 days.

I am hoping that forecast will be wrong. This cool, damp weather has me all stiffened up which is making it hard to pack. Certainly getting a lot of bending exercise these days!😂 But I have learned a lot with all the moving I have done over the years.

Jasper the Red Squirrel.

Years ago when my brother and I helped each other move, my dad pitching in too, we could move everything without getting even a small scratch on any furniture.😃 Not everyone is that careful when moving, however, as I have discovered in my last couple of moves.🙄 However, we did have some interesting things happen.

I had the back seat of my car filled with stuff and my brother comes out with a box. I told him it would not fit in my car since it was now full. Aside from boxes in the back seat, I had a large lamp shade sitting there as well, in order to keep it safe. It was for a antique lamp. I come back out and my brother is coming back from my car without the box.

Sir Henry waiting for his breakfast.

“Where did you put it?” I asked. “In the back seat, lots of room,” he said. I looked. He had pushed some boxes over and squashed my lamp shade! Wow, did he ever get a laugh out of that one when I showed him the lamp shade.🤣 Another time he was helping and he tossed a box into the back of the truck. I asked if he read what I had written on the box.

“Fraggle,” he said, “what is that?”🤔 “Not fraggle, it is Fragile,” I explained, “it means breakable.” “Why not just put breakable so everyone knows,” he said. So after that I did. In another move, a friend dropped a box from waist height onto the cement floor of the carport. I asked him about what it said on the box. He said he does not read what is on the boxes. It said breakable. And it did. Break. Sigh.😲

Sometimes there is no winning. Another time a friend was helping and he gave me a piece of wood. “A little piece came off that cabinet,” he said, “but I saved it for you.” I looked at it. “Have to expect some bumps and scrapes,” he said again. That was not a bump or a scrape, it was a gouge, half an inch (12mm) deep and 6 inches (15cm) long.😲

Coffee the chipmunk, filling his cheeks with peanuts, he will take one more before leaving.

It could not be fixed so I replaced the door on the cabinet, much easier. The joys of moving.🙄 I have so many stories from my moves. Sometimes just one move would fill a post with such things, and more. Oh my. Hopefully things will go well with this move since I will not be able to do repair work where I will be living. I am sure this move will work well.🙂

Still trying to find 4 strong guys to help, and hopefully I will be able to rent a truck too. Larger trucks for moving are not often available here. So that might make things interesting. It can still be done without a larger truck though, just takes more time. The joys of moving.😂 Well, time to get more coffee and start packing again. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.😊😻

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