LET THE PACKING BEGIN

  It was a busy weekend. 

Thankfully, the weather cooperated and my mowing last weekend worked out great because...

...the grass has not even grown.  In fact, areas are turning brown (lack of rain/seasonal).

But we're OK with that.  Here in a month or so, it's ALL going to be a mess, ha.

The weather was cool which was good and so I had to figure out a plan of attack on how to start tackling the house contents.

We have this new storage unit and that will be for the majority of what we are keeping.  Mostly the big furniture.  It's 10x15 (and climate controlled).

I decided that instead of making half a dozen trips back and forth there, I would just start sorting and packing, starting by taking all the pictures/artwork off the walls (that we're keeping) and put them aside.  Then I started emptying drawers.  All the kitchen drawers and then any furniture that had drawers and again, what we're keeping, I stored in boxes.

Then I started on the closets and got all three emptied and sorted.  I filled up two contractor bags with trash, and used another one to put soft goods in, pillows from the couches, some loose blankets and throws, etc.  We'll bring those back into town so they'll be safe from mice.  We're not keeping any of the curtains.

We figured the barn is a good place for the pictures and flat items.  The hottest part of the year is over and let's be honest, with the house not having a/c or heat, the barn is just as good as the house has been. Plus when the house is done, it'll be easy to bring things back, a little at a time.

So I got all of those items moved to the porch and backed the truck up, loaded it a few times and drove it to the barn to unload it.  Here's a picture from the last trip, ha.  It worked great and we still have room in the barn for more stuff.  We'll see what all we can put in there.  The more we can put in there, the easier (and less crowded) it will be in the storage unit.

All we need to do is keep packing and sorting. A couple more weekends (and if we have to take a day off during the week, we will) and we'll be done.

Speaking of boxes and packing supplies, we have been amassing a large amount of packing stuff from, you guessed it, the downstairs "trash to treasure area" at the building, ha.

Here was a recent haul.  Found several boxes, packing paper and even two giant rolls of bubble wrap.  All we had to buy was a roll of packing tape, ha.  It'll all come in handy for the farm and later next year for the apartment when we moved to the new house.

Things are getting real!