Away from home for a few days

Category: Getting my garden started | Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:15 pm

We have remodeled our former summer home into a year-round home, and now live their fulltime. We still, however, have our home here in the Milwaukee area. We just drove the 5 hours to get here on Sunday. We are trying to get this house ready to sell. Since we made the decision to move to Land O' Lakes, the house here has been somewhat neglected. Now to get it ready to sell, there is an overwhelming amount of work. First of all we need to keep the house operational so we have a place to live while working here. Then everything else gets divided into one of four categories; stuff that the kids get, stuff that goes to Good Will, stuff that gets thrown out, and finally the stuff we will be moving up to the lake. So today I've been going through the bedroom closet, which has become the home for far more than just clothes. The problem comes when I open a box and find old school papers from our 37-year-old, pregnant, daughter, from when she was in 2nd grade. I spend more time looking at the papers than I spend cleaning out the closet. So you say, why are her things here in our house, If you have kids, I'm sure that you know, that even if the kids have there own home, their house is for short term storage and Mom & Dads house is for long term storage. Even if they tell you when they bring it here that it's only temporary. Why not, Mom & Dad are empty nesters and have lots of room. They have a nice little Cape Cod style home with a full basement and a garage, but I bet when they see the pile of things that is earmarked for them they will say "we don't have room". Anyway, my closet cleaning task today has taken most of the day, and progress has been slow. I just found a box of old pictures from just after we were married. There goes a couple more hours. At this rate we will still be getting it ready to sell for a couple more years.
Poor Deputy, our 13 1/2 year old Yellow Lab, is bored stiff here, he doesn't do stairs to well any more, and all our work has been up stairs. He loves car rides, even the 5 hour trips, and goes most every where with us. Every time I go down stairs he thinks he can convince me that we should go for a walk, and when he realizes that I'm going right back up, he gives me that "look". I don't know where he learned the "look" but those big sad brown eyes can break your heart. I think it's time to take a break from looking at old pictures and take the poor guy for a walk. Tom.

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Gardenstew wrote on Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:53 pm:

Sounds like you have a lot of sorting to do Tom. I totally understand getting side-tracked when rummaging through old stuff. It's nice to reminisce.

I hope Deputy forgives you :D

zuzu's petals wrote on Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:24 pm:

OH, wow, how badly I need to do the same sort organizing,
right here in our home, but every time I really think about digging in,
I get dizzy spells and put the job off.
;-/

eileen wrote on Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:41 pm:

I know just what you mean about storage at mum and dads house!!! Our loft space is overflowing with our lids stuff. The 'kids' have all left home now and are 35,28 and 24 years old so just when are they going to come anf get their stuff? Probably never. LOL

cajunbelle wrote on Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:08 am:

Sounds like a lot of work ahead you. I hope Deputy doesn't get too bored, poor fellow.

glendann wrote on Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:42 am:

You have a big job ahead of you.I do hope Deputy makes it up and down all those stairs as many times as he has to ,following his buddy back and forth.