Let me back the truck up....in early November apparently the Big Guy in the Sky spied on our lives, shook His head and said.."hmmm they are not feeling fulfilled." And so we unknowingly were presented with two new choices. South to Falkland Islands (yes we found two coinciding opportunities) or north to Dawson Creek British Columbia. After much discussion, soul searching and deliberation we decided B.C. was the better choice, and so hubby signed a contract with the city of DC (what the cool kids call Dawson Creek) and off he went.
The whole process of packing a big house, garage and finding renters was shall we say, daunting. But that's another installment. ..whine on!
Dec 1 the big blu and white moving truck pulled up, and our stuff was packed in prep of a delivery date between Dec 4 and 11. Lots of time to clean the tub, swerp up etc before I had to pack up tge kitties and take the 11 1/2 hour drive to our new home! And we had a new home...a 2,000 sq ft of living space Shouse.
Hubby had seen a place within our budget, a Shouse or "shop turned into a house" 5 km from DC...the previous home of a young couple who'd lived and raised two young hockey players for 7 years while they built their dream home on the small 150 acre ranch.
Beautifully decorated, fully furnished, and that included pots and pans and sheets on the bed! A water heated cement floor, upper mezzanine and three bedrooms in total. Awesome! And they'd welcome our kitties!
But last minute John arrived home on the 1st, in time to see the last few items be slid into the truck, packed like a Tetris game! For me unnerving,
J remained cool. Ok, pack up tge "unmovable" items, like cleaning supplies and many boxes of liquor...and lers leave at 4 a.m. on Tuesday the 3rd.
"the best laid plans" they say...and at 8:30 a.m. , a mere 4.5 hrs behind schedule, car and truck full to overflowing, in a now raging snowstorm and the MacArthurs left on slippery roads to our new home.
We awoke in our new home, kingsized bed full of kitties (who were verywell behaved on the drive up) and after a cuppa Mac left for his job. And to relocate to his corner office I might add. Oh and I haven't mentioned I had already interviewed and been hired at a contract position to start Dec 11? I think I was kind of in shock to be honest...
As I looked around, trying to imagine how we'd fit all our stuff in, a phone call. It was Mike the Mover. OMG theyd dtiven direct to DC, was it convenient for them to deliver our stuff today, this morning, the 4th?
Holy Henshit! By 4:30 they still had not fully unloaded, and I must have looked overwhelmed to say the least, and you couldn't move for boxes and furniture. ...Mike said why dont we come back tomorrow morning and finish then? I nodded numbly, and sat down. Where would we put all our stuff?
But dwar reader, we made it. Everything was unloaded, now there remain 7 boxes on the main floor...lets not talk about the office and store room, well start on them this weekend.
DC is a lovely place, super cute downtown with a gigantic Christmas tree at Mile 0, a wicked good meat shop The Butcher Block, a yummy Swiss bakery, as well as all the medium big boc stores you might need!
Our Shouse (shome?) Is warm even in our current -37C weather, we set up 2 big Christmas trees and 2 4' trees, and had a quiet cozy Yuletide.
Tomorrow is New Years Eve, so we'll toast to a great past 3 years in Milo, and oyr friends there, as well as to a new life and new friends to come and old friends to love in 2018.
Happy New Year. ..here's to the journey ahead of us!
