We Made It!

It's been an eventful weekend ( well the whole past month has been ), but we're finally here!  With the gracious help of lots of friends we made quick work of the move.  We only had two furniture casualties - one bookshelf lost to I-71 and one end table glass insert got shattered - all in all, not to shabby!

I've gotten all the major unpacking done - all that is left is little stuff that I don't really know what to do with yet and my entire craft room, which will likely be a winter project.  The office is still partially in a shambles, but we're up and running, which is the important part.

The dogs are loving the new place already, even though they can't free roam the yard yet.  We're getting a fence estimate this week to at least get an area for the four beasts to romp in until we get around to fencing the majority of the 11 acres.  For now we have two 20 foot screw in the ground leads for Buddy and Hardy.  Blue and Lois stick close so we don't worry about them so much.  Here's Buddy lounging at the end of his lead:

Lots more photos will be coming as soon as I get all settled and have time and energy to get outside.  And inside photos are coming as soon as the place no longer looks like it was run over by a Tasmanian devil.

Almost Home Sweet Home!

A week from tomorrow this will officially be Home Sweet Home!
( Photos by K. Kemble )

All photos are here.

We're pretty much all packed and ready to go.  The only things left unpacked are things still in use.  We were able to go ahead and take several loads over to the new house and store them in the large shed until moving day.  The sellers have to be out by 10pm next Friday, but we're hoping they are out before then. It all depends on how long it takes them to get moved into their new house.  We're just anxious to get settled and hoping for a few extra days to get the old house in better shape for renting without being rushed during moving weekend.

Once we get moved and settled a bit I'll post updated photos with our furnishings and arrangements.  It's going to be a busy week but I took a week off to get all unpacked and settled in the new place.  Internet may also be hit or miss during that time, depending on how long it takes to get the new connections set up at the new house.

Lots more photos coming soon!  Hopefully lots of wildlife too.  With 11 acres I'm bound to get lots of deer, turkey and bird photos in the near future!  :)

Warp Speed Ahead!

Tuesday we found out that we'll be closing on the new house this Monday.  After expecting it to be closed at the end of the month this came as quite the shock!  Here we thought we had 7 weeks to get our house in shape to rent and to get everything packed up.  Now we have just over three weeks - gah!  So warp speed ahead!  I already had rarely used items and non-essential items all packed up over the last several weeks, but now I can start working on anything we won't need in the next three weeks.  We've also been selling all kinds of things on Craig's List, which is nice since we don't need it, we made some money and we don't have to move those items.  I think Jason ate soup for lunch for three straight weeks so we don't have to pack and move so many canned goods - LOL!

I had to cancel a camping trip for this weekend and a King's Island trip in order to make sure everything gets done on time, but that's ok, it will be worth it in the end.  So instead, on the agenda this weekend is filling in the Koi pond.  We sold all the fish ( on Craig's List ) and now have to remove the flower beds, fill in the crater in the back yard and sew grass seed.  Anyone like to throw dirt around?  Come on over!

I'm likely to be scarce in blogging over the next few weeks, but once we get moved in and settled look out!  I plan to keep the blind permanently setup in the wooded area of the back yard and hope to get some great wildlife shots!  And once we get settled I'll be posting house photos as well.

If anyone has any good moving tips for us please do tell - it's been a while since we've done this!