August 24, 2008
Last week we finished moving Leah's parents. At the end of the long parade of possessions were seven large cages of canaries and finches, all of which are now safely installed in the garage, awaiting an aviary that will be built in the coming months.
I know you may have thought we'd finished moving some time ago. No, this whole time we've been moving. Well, not the entire time; there were also projects around the new house--sorting and unpacking, organizing, setting things up, small carpentry projects and, probably, too many days off. But, really, if you plan to move (and clean and pack and recycle and donate and just throw away) the contents of a large, full six bedroom house, I recommend blocking out a bit of time. But, it's done. And the resulting transformation in the two houses carries a reasonable amount of job satisfaction.
Not that we've finished with the old house. In order to prepare for selling, we plan to spend the next few months (less some weeks on the Oregon coast in September) painting, remodeling the kitchen and a bathroom, re-seeding the backyard, installing wallboard in the garage and a lengthy list of other projects and repairs. So we'll still be busy for awhile, but at least it'll keep us out of trouble.
