Praise the Lord for his help during our evacuation during February & March. Prevailing temperatures in the 50’s and no snow must have been the work of a divine force.
During one of our road trips, I took a photo of The Arnold home on 136 Victoria Rd in Hartford. After 45 years it would have been nice to go inside, present owner is PD and not home. I remember my dad throwing a 40’ wooden ladder to paint the peak you are looking at. Big task for a 50 year fellow who flew a desk for his living.
Our POD is 7’ x 7’ x 8’, not very big when you start looking at a dining room set,2 small tables, 3’x4’ x4’ Serving Piece and Great Great Great Granny’s Rocker. We also had to put the 2 rear seats from cruiser which turned that into a mini moving van.
Loading the POD and the car took 2 weeks. I’m sure I did handled each item an average of 3 times.
Note the weather, there are buds on the trees, in March! Last year we had 3’ of snow on the ground
During the last week of this exercise, we were sleeping on a mattress on the floor, just like 48 years ago! Not quite, 48 years ago we both had considerable less trouble moving from the floor to the vertical.
Hidden Hero's, we had lots. Lodge Brothers and family would show up to help move furniture. Dick & Ursula Kaminsky friends for 40+ years did yeoman duty. Ursula move several truck loads of our ‘surplus’ to her church for a tag sale and opened her home to feed us when we were ‘homeless’. 
Grace & Kelly’s families took possession of the major furniture and appliances. Big Brothers made several stops and I used freecycle and Craig's List to great advantage.
We negotiated with the young couple that bought our home to leave a bunch of domestic ‘stuff’. We parted friends and wised them the very best.
March 28, 2012, we are on the road at 10:00. Last minute stuffing of Cruiser would give credit to a Signfeld show. Hope to make Washington DC this evening.
No comments :
Post a Comment