“The Move” -- Now that it’s over….. I can talk about it.
Monday, September 14th – Monday, September 28th
We left Green Turtle Bay in Lake Barkley, KY and got back to Indianapolis around 1:00 in the morning (Tuesday morning). We had exactly 2 weeks to move before the closing of our Indy house. For the entire 5 hours’ drive from the marina, I searched online for a place to rent. It’s been 15 years since we last moved, so the whole thing was a frightening task.
It took us 2 days to find a place, and we settled on renting a townhouse for a year in Carmel, in the Bridgewater development. We found a place to live, found a storage unit, set up a mailbox at the UPS Store, lined up a mover, packed most of the house ourselves, and let the movers pack the rest. Roger took 9 pick-up truck-loads of things to Goodwill, and 7 more truck-loads to the dumpster behind our former business, Flotronix. I was awake every day by about 5:00 a.m. and Roger was coming up with any excuse he could to leave the house because he “had to do some thing or another”. One day early on, I caught him standing in the unfinished part of the basement, just staring into space. He was completely overwhelmed with all “the stuff”. It was so funny! But I knew that whatever we didn’t do, the movers would handle.
In the meantime, our Hilton Head villa had sold and we had to deal with both homes at the same time. Two inspections, repair estimates for two houses, two more negotiations, emails back and forth and back and forth. One of my friends, Jodi Tibbett, came over to help me pack. I offered her a cup of tea and wouldn’t let her stop to drink it – I was a slave-driver, but we had so much fun catching up and working at the same time.
The movers took 2-1/2 days to finish packing us, move a truckload into our 2nd storage unit and then move the second truckload into the townhouse. We did it!
On Saturday, the day after we moved, we went to an engagement celebration for Brett, and his fiancée, Kelly Murphy. It was a wonderful day! They have tentatively set a date for next November. Wait until you meet Kelly; we couldn’t possibly be any happier to have her in our family!
We spent the next day getting ready for our trip to Europe. We knew that we wouldn’t be able to unpack until we returned in about 2 weeks. It wasn’t a good feeling leaving the townhouse in such a mess, but we really had no other choice. When we boarded the plane on Monday afternoon for Europe, it was almost a relief.
We were amazed that we actually accomplished as much as we did in literally 1-1/2 weeks. The boat was a million miles away for the time being.
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