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I am now down at my parents with 90% of my belongings.
They arrived around 10am after getting loaded up at the mill and my dad backed right up our steep driveway. The loom got loaded first and unfortunately, disassembled itself during the process. Sigh. It was mostly the rollers at the top, so they should be relatively easy to fix. That and the big chair went in the bed of the truck along with my mattress and box spring. Grandma's sewing machine got placed on the chair so it would be cushioned for the ride. And then all the other stuff got stuffed into the bed of the truck or alongside the flooring.
The trailer was only half full and the lumber was in a stack a little off center, so there was four feet on one side and a foot on the other side of the stack and we packed things in there. All of the boxes and furniture from the living room, and almost all the stuff from my bedroom got in there.
I sent my parents off with their load of stuff, then did some cleaning and moving things left into my room and a few other misc tasks. Then I hopped in my truck and hit the road. Drive was perfectly fine and nice, and ten minutes from the farmhouse, it started raining. I had tarped my stuff, but I knew my parents hadn't tarped any of their stuff. They had beaten me by 30 mins or so and it wasn't raining when they arrived and they hadn't noticed the rain. So I tossed some tarps on until my dad got up from his nap and then he put their truck and trailer in the old selling area. I got important stuff out of my truck and parked it under cover as well, then dug the food boxes from where they ended up and brought them inside. No sense tempting the mice more than we need to. Everything will get unloaded tomorrow, when it isn't raining. stuff didn't get too wet, just damp, so it should dry decently overnight and if not, oh well.
What's left in NY is chest freezer, fencing, spinning wheels, toaster oven, some misc bins of stuff, weights, bulk bags of rice and stuff, snowblower and lawnmower, shed stuff, wooden workbench, drying bench, some other assorted small things plus cleaning supplies.
I think the game plan for the last of the stuff is to come up with my parents' truck, go to my doctors appointment on the 10th, pick up a uhaul trailer with a ramp and load up all the stuff, clean, then drive home. I was originally going to do that this week if we weren't able to load most stuff, but I don't see any reason to do the drive twice since I have all the important stuff.
So: success! now many tedious things must occur. my mom absolutely didn't get my old room cleaned out so there isn't even room to squeeze a dresser in. Ah well.
They arrived around 10am after getting loaded up at the mill and my dad backed right up our steep driveway. The loom got loaded first and unfortunately, disassembled itself during the process. Sigh. It was mostly the rollers at the top, so they should be relatively easy to fix. That and the big chair went in the bed of the truck along with my mattress and box spring. Grandma's sewing machine got placed on the chair so it would be cushioned for the ride. And then all the other stuff got stuffed into the bed of the truck or alongside the flooring.
The trailer was only half full and the lumber was in a stack a little off center, so there was four feet on one side and a foot on the other side of the stack and we packed things in there. All of the boxes and furniture from the living room, and almost all the stuff from my bedroom got in there.
I sent my parents off with their load of stuff, then did some cleaning and moving things left into my room and a few other misc tasks. Then I hopped in my truck and hit the road. Drive was perfectly fine and nice, and ten minutes from the farmhouse, it started raining. I had tarped my stuff, but I knew my parents hadn't tarped any of their stuff. They had beaten me by 30 mins or so and it wasn't raining when they arrived and they hadn't noticed the rain. So I tossed some tarps on until my dad got up from his nap and then he put their truck and trailer in the old selling area. I got important stuff out of my truck and parked it under cover as well, then dug the food boxes from where they ended up and brought them inside. No sense tempting the mice more than we need to. Everything will get unloaded tomorrow, when it isn't raining. stuff didn't get too wet, just damp, so it should dry decently overnight and if not, oh well.
What's left in NY is chest freezer, fencing, spinning wheels, toaster oven, some misc bins of stuff, weights, bulk bags of rice and stuff, snowblower and lawnmower, shed stuff, wooden workbench, drying bench, some other assorted small things plus cleaning supplies.
I think the game plan for the last of the stuff is to come up with my parents' truck, go to my doctors appointment on the 10th, pick up a uhaul trailer with a ramp and load up all the stuff, clean, then drive home. I was originally going to do that this week if we weren't able to load most stuff, but I don't see any reason to do the drive twice since I have all the important stuff.
So: success! now many tedious things must occur. my mom absolutely didn't get my old room cleaned out so there isn't even room to squeeze a dresser in. Ah well.
