As most of you know, we have moved 800+ miles from Maine to North Carolina. It was the biggest undertaking that we have ever done. My craft area consisted of the living room in a 3 room apartment of 571 square feet to an apartment of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room and dining room are an open area... the square footage more than doubled in the new apartment. We are slowly unpacking, finding the right spot, and putting things away,
My new studio is 13' x 11'. I love my room! Now to get it to work for me. Just moving things and making it work!!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!
Lynn
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Big Day!
Here it is October, my lands where did the summer go?
It was getting to the time that where we were living in North Berwick, Maine, my depression was getting worse. The owners of the apt. have a motto, "If you don't like it, Move!!" We were treated as if we were in assisted living, could not put anything on the window sills in the hall, everything had to be neat & tidy, etc.
Paul & I had talked about moving for the past 6 months. I put it into God's mighty hands, that if we were to move than an apartment would be available October 8th in Greensboro, North Carolina. God is so good. It was to be. An apartment came available within 3 weeks of looking. On September 7th we gave the apartment manager our 30 day notice of moving. Then we started to pack.... :( We have never in 45 years been organized... Who would think that would be important? We labeled the boxes, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, & Crafts!!
I think 90% of the boxes are labeled crafts!
Paul rented a 26' Penske truck while I got to drive the pickup.... With the help of Seth & Lance we finally were able to get everything loaded into the 2 trucks. We left on October 8th. Lilia rode shotgun with me, Paul drove the big truck. We were exhausted as it took 3 days to load the trucks.
We stopped in New Hampshire to fill the trucks with fuel. Had supper at the truck stop, it was very good, who knew that fried chicken would be so tasty...
Paul bought me a new frog for our new apartment! This frog opens up and has a small place to put something in it. Very blingy as well! Every girl loves bling right?
Than we were off. Over the next 24 hours we drove. (This is usually only a 14 hour trip). We ran into construction, stop and go for miles on end, had to stop for gas, bathroom breaks, meals etc. I also had to stop for naps 3 times. God was certainly with me as a few times I know my eyes shut, yes while driving... I can dose in the truck with the seat pushed back....seat would not tilt back as there was to much stuff!! Friday afternoon we ran into another delay, 4 vehicle pile up on the south bound side and 2 vehicles on the north bound side. Very slow going. By Friday afternoon around 5 pm we stopped just North of Roanoke, NC at the Cracker Barrel for supper.... I had had it. Lilia had had it, I so needed a "Snickers" bar at that point. I told Paul that we were done for the day... this was at the 26 hour mark.... We spent the night at the Red Roof Inn. They had a room available with 2 double beds. We took it!! By 8 pm all 3 of us were out for the night...
Saturday morning we were up at 5:30 am at 7:30 am we were on the road again. 2 hours later we arrived at our destination, Bridford Lake Circle apartments!!! They opened at 10 am. By noon time we were done with all the paperwork...
The apartment is beautiful!! There is a sun room that we now have 2 rocking chairs in front of the windows. Living room, kitchen, master bedroom, & best of all a room for my "studio", 2 bathrooms. What more do we want? Nothing. This is fantastic! We doubled the size of living space.
3 pm the guys from 2 men & a truck, plus one other guy arrived to help unload the trucks. By this time the Heavens opened up and a soft rain started to fall. Didn't care! I ordered pizza and one of the guys, Kevin, (thank you) gave me a ride to pick up the pizza. 5 hours from start to finish we were unloaded and totally exhausted... Thanks go to Kevin, John, & Branden for doing a wonderful job!! We could not of done it without them.
Next post will let you know about the unpacking!
Enjoy your day where ever you are and what ever you are doing!
Lynn
It was getting to the time that where we were living in North Berwick, Maine, my depression was getting worse. The owners of the apt. have a motto, "If you don't like it, Move!!" We were treated as if we were in assisted living, could not put anything on the window sills in the hall, everything had to be neat & tidy, etc.
Paul & I had talked about moving for the past 6 months. I put it into God's mighty hands, that if we were to move than an apartment would be available October 8th in Greensboro, North Carolina. God is so good. It was to be. An apartment came available within 3 weeks of looking. On September 7th we gave the apartment manager our 30 day notice of moving. Then we started to pack.... :( We have never in 45 years been organized... Who would think that would be important? We labeled the boxes, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, & Crafts!!
I think 90% of the boxes are labeled crafts!
Paul rented a 26' Penske truck while I got to drive the pickup.... With the help of Seth & Lance we finally were able to get everything loaded into the 2 trucks. We left on October 8th. Lilia rode shotgun with me, Paul drove the big truck. We were exhausted as it took 3 days to load the trucks.
We stopped in New Hampshire to fill the trucks with fuel. Had supper at the truck stop, it was very good, who knew that fried chicken would be so tasty...
Paul bought me a new frog for our new apartment! This frog opens up and has a small place to put something in it. Very blingy as well! Every girl loves bling right?
Than we were off. Over the next 24 hours we drove. (This is usually only a 14 hour trip). We ran into construction, stop and go for miles on end, had to stop for gas, bathroom breaks, meals etc. I also had to stop for naps 3 times. God was certainly with me as a few times I know my eyes shut, yes while driving... I can dose in the truck with the seat pushed back....seat would not tilt back as there was to much stuff!! Friday afternoon we ran into another delay, 4 vehicle pile up on the south bound side and 2 vehicles on the north bound side. Very slow going. By Friday afternoon around 5 pm we stopped just North of Roanoke, NC at the Cracker Barrel for supper.... I had had it. Lilia had had it, I so needed a "Snickers" bar at that point. I told Paul that we were done for the day... this was at the 26 hour mark.... We spent the night at the Red Roof Inn. They had a room available with 2 double beds. We took it!! By 8 pm all 3 of us were out for the night...
Saturday morning we were up at 5:30 am at 7:30 am we were on the road again. 2 hours later we arrived at our destination, Bridford Lake Circle apartments!!! They opened at 10 am. By noon time we were done with all the paperwork...
The apartment is beautiful!! There is a sun room that we now have 2 rocking chairs in front of the windows. Living room, kitchen, master bedroom, & best of all a room for my "studio", 2 bathrooms. What more do we want? Nothing. This is fantastic! We doubled the size of living space.
3 pm the guys from 2 men & a truck, plus one other guy arrived to help unload the trucks. By this time the Heavens opened up and a soft rain started to fall. Didn't care! I ordered pizza and one of the guys, Kevin, (thank you) gave me a ride to pick up the pizza. 5 hours from start to finish we were unloaded and totally exhausted... Thanks go to Kevin, John, & Branden for doing a wonderful job!! We could not of done it without them.
Next post will let you know about the unpacking!
Enjoy your day where ever you are and what ever you are doing!
Lynn
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