Monday: Herb delivered a plenary talk at The College of New Jersey, and drove back to Middletown Springs. We shared prosecco and year-old wedding cake at 11:30 p.m. on our first anniversary.
Tuesday: We had breakfast at Panera, went to the wrong credit union branch, but ultimately closed on the purchase of our house at 11:00 a.m. We celebrated by buying food for friends who would soon help us move, and buying a dozen kitchen towels. Herb has a particular fetish for kitchen towels.
Wednesday: We took three or four carloads of boxes and Tupperware cartons up to the new house while the departing owners were on their own moving mission into Rutland. We made quite a lot of progress, with noticeable diminution of the garage boxes.
Thursday: The big move. The BIG move. Emmett, Kerstin, Lois, Fred, Ursula, Linda, Marilyn, Nelson, and two worse-than-useless paid movers. We actually paid them off and sent them away at 3:00 to keep them from breaking or tearing or driving over anything else. If you're in the Rutland area, please feel free to call us to get a true cautionary tale before you make a similar mistake. But we got nearly everything up the hill, most of it into the house, and... we slept in our own bed, in our own home.
Friday: The finishing up day. Amanda, Ellen, Dan, Howard, Judy, and the beginning of the long process of placing things rather than just having them at the correct address. The new garage is filling like the old one did, but this time with empty cardboard boxes rather than full ones. The cats have already found preferred resting spots. And Nora is in the car on her way to New York, probably arriving there around midnight.
Quite a week. Saturday will see the final cleaning of our former South Street house, and unknown news from Nora; and on Sunday, July First and the beginning of the second half of the year. A momentous time on all counts. Thanks for all of your love and support.
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