Our New House!

Room decorating is going very slowly. I just upgraded my fish tank over the weekend and just tonight cleaned up the mess.  At one time I had 5 fish tanks running:  50-, 30-, 10-, 6- and 5-gallon sizes.  This was back in a previous townhome, before the last apartment.  At that time, I phased out all of them just so I could start and keep up with a Reef Tank in the 50-gallon.  Once we moved out of there and into the last apartment, there was no room for such a big fish tank so I downsized to a 30-gallon. Continue Reading »

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We closed on the house on Wednesday 10/25, started planning our move on Friday and started packing that night with the help of Barbara.  We rented a moving truck for Saturday and Sunday, figuring that we could move everything ourselves.  Or original plan was to hire movers for the second day to handle all the big stuff, but between Kevin, Ann and I, we were able to get everything but the couches, which are going to be left behind anyway.  Friday night, the kids and I wanted to stay the night at the new house.  Ann slept at the apartment.

We spent all day Saturday moving but Kevin had to work in the morning so he and I handled the big stuff when he got home at the end of the day.  We loaded up the truck and hauled over the first load.  We unloaded some things into the house, but most of it was just put into the garage.  We only unloaded part of the truck since it was getting late, saving the rest for Sunday morning.  We had moved the beds so, from that night on, we only slept at the new house. Continue Reading »

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