Home and Heart

We are well underway on the adventure now.

This week was quite the roller coaster. The buyer’s inspection found a number of things that need to be addressed-chimney repairs, vermiculite removal, etc. Then they raised the question of whether there was an unknown or undisclosed underground oil tank, about which we know/knew nothing. For a while it felt like the whole thing would fall apart but it seems to have straightened out and we are still on track to close the 14th of November.

Thursday night 11/6 was our last night sleeping at 37 Swift.

Friday was spent prepping for the estate sale. All the furniture, rugs, desks, art, tools, etc were to be sold. But we needed to clear out little stuff and make a thousand decisions about what to save, what to give away, what to toss. The garage is where photos and family papers are for now. That sorting can happen next week.

A couple of antiques (dry sink, cobbler’s bench) and bunches of art and family artifacts went into a U-haul to go to Seth and Megan in Cornwall-on-Hudson or to Caitlin and Alex in Baltimore.

By 2:30 we were done packing and on the road, driving the 10foot box truck.

Got to Cornwall, had dinner with the kids and collapsed.

Saturday morning unloaded their stuff from the truck, then off to Baltimore. Arrived there mid afternoon and unloaded their stuff from the truck and turned the truck in to U-Haul. Had a very pleasant afternoon and evening hanging with the Gibsons then early bed. Adventure is tiring!

Up early today to get on the train back to Albany. We’ll be in V’ville this week sorting stuff, then off to SD Saturday!