For just a week of time, this past week has felt like one of the longest weeks ever. We were waiting on the house inspection results, Roy finding a condo and the process involved with it, deciding on what comes with us and what is left behind for the estate sale and all the details in and out of the selling and moving process. They sent the inspection report and what they found is so minor. Roy offered a $1000.00 and a ten foot ladder. 😊 They countered with $1500.00 and no mention of the ladder, so Roy is all...no ladder for you... (Seinfeld reference) He was also going to leave the TVs for them, but those are off the table so to speak... They even sent a second AC inspector and Roy being the detailed person that he is, has kept everything maintained and serviced. That's why some of the inspection report seemed a little picky. No matter, we said fine and moved on.
Roy began taking things over to his condo on Saturday, in all the rain. He has met a couple of the neighbors and we or I know a few people that live there. Roy did the Google Duo tour for me and while it is a one bedroom one bath condo, it is rather spacious. Oh, I just sounded like someone on House Hunters. The balcony is enclosed and sliding doors on barn door hardware. That will make a nice area for his recumbent bike. My moving recommendations for him have been, use the dining room area for his desk, printer and file cabinet because his kitchen table and chairs are really small and could go anywhere in the living room area. He is not taking couches but just a recliner and two wing back chairs. Also the bookcases we had made from the Amish Craftsman store, I think. Also, this just in, I think Roy has had the come to Jesus moment over some of the furniture, yahoo and it will make for an easier move for him. This is so difficult doing this long distance...but we are coming to the right decisions. He and I make a good team, he is a plan man and detail oriented. Whereas, I am a big picture person, with a lot of common sense and in the big picture, make the tough decisions now and not later. We are parting with things and it is just that, things, that have good memories associated with them. The process of buying and furnishing our Katy home was so fun and enjoyable but those things don't translate well now. Roy was surprised about our china, cause I said let it go...we have used it maybe twice...it looks like china a 22 year old picked out, cause a 22 year old did, and we have not used it since we lived in the townhouse and when we moved from the condo, we gave away the china hutch. So these dishes have been sitting in the island cabinet for ten years now, not seeing the light of day.
The thought occurred that we have almost come full circle. Our married life began in a small, dark, one bedroom apartment. When you're young you can find friends that will help you move for the promise of pizza and Dr Pepper. We moved around apartments like it was nothing, cause we had nothing. You know we bought used furniture from a friend for the living room, the dinette set and wicker chairs from college days. As we matured...haha... we added to the menagerie of rejects and discards from others, then we gave away those early days possessions. Now, we have all the things we desired and how we wanted to furnish a home and we are moving on from those things, really desiring to have less and less cause it just encumbers life. We always joked that Roy had brought to our marriage, a broken down TV set, one good knife, and a bar stool. He lived in an apartment that was furnished. He also bought a car that nearly broke us from nothing to less than nothing cause it was being repaired constantly. Ah the lovely Toranado that the mechanic called a tornado cause it disrupted life something fierce. Now, though, the one bedroom condo is light and bright and we are furnishing it with our leftovers. The double bed that Roy has decided to use is the last piece of bedroom furniture in that early American style that my parents bought for their first owned home. The twin beds, nightstand and dresser have gone on to their reward, so just this piece. We didn't want it, didn't have room for it when my father brought it over to our home and left it saying, it's yours now. So we lugged that head and foot board around all these years, just to be used in the guest room. What my father had meant for evil back then, we had paid the price for selling a dresser and mirror he gave us, had been learned. But that evil has been turned to good and for such a time as this. Now how we will fit in a double bed these days? Roy said, heck, we'll get a room at the hotel next to the condos when you come to town. I like his way of thinking.
Since discovering Google Duo I have also discovered after all these years of never getting motion sick or sick on rides, that maybe now, it could be possible. Roy moves that camera around so quickly I was feeling a little ill and told him I needed to get Dramamine for our next video call. He had decided to Zoom call cause the screen will be stabilized. We went though a bookcase of books that I knew would be the ones I want to keep. Gail Godwin, Ann Rivers Siddons, and Ellen Gilchrist books holding up the space. I'd like to reread some of them before turning them loose into the world.
A note on the Feral Fam. Junioretta is back in heat again. Third time, hasn't been pregnant. Maybe she is sterile from all the inbreeding or maybe these male cats aren't getting the job done. They like to follow her around, of course. Biggio is friendly to me once again. We went through a hissing week. Hector Protector is helping me garden and usually comes to greet me. Bobbsey was here this week, so it is always nice for a visit. Radley has been catting around, so he is here about every other day. He is looking for food and then he sleeps for twenty four hours or so. Junior is out looking for his place in the world. He spends time in the tulips hiding to be able to get birds, but there isn't anything he can climb to be near them and of course that was done on purpose.
Today, in the chaos of helping Roy and being at a distance, watching for a FedEx delivery that I have to sign for and cleaning out the garage, the calming image of those two deer on the gravel road above us is such a gift. What a lovely sight this morning. These are the first two deer I have seen near the house. Oh, I have seen a bobcat, a coyote, wood chucks, and the like, never deer. Our neighbor says they have seen a bear on their cameras but I am content with a Baylor Bear t-shirt and not seeing one in real life.
Roy has movers coming on Saturday. Yay! I am breathing easier on that one.
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