Moving AGAIN….

Since 1995 I have moved a lot.  We moved out of our 2nd home then after 16 years in the first house.  In 1999 I moved to Longmont, Colorado to be near Robin and James. In 2001 I bought the condo in Anchorage, sold the big 3600 sf house and moved again!  Then in the Spring of 2003 I bought a condo in Palm Springs, California and in the fall of 2003 moved out of the Colorado condo which was then sold.

So I did settle for a few years but then….. 3 homes became too much and too little time was spent at each of then.  Lots of maintenance and as I get older not as much fun to do…not as much fun to clean 3 and time to DOWNSIZE!  So… hence the decision to finally put the condo with a realtor (so I wouldn’t back out) and so I did.  She sold the condo at precisely the correct time as I had just left for the winter and at a very good price.

So now I have to DOWNSIZE from 2000 SF to 1600 SF that is already furnished, my ski cabin at Girdwood, Alaska.  Oh me, oh my!  What to do, what to do!

So four days after I return from Las Vegas I again get on the plane and fly home as I have about 3 weeks to move and know I need every day of that.  A week later I fly Carol to Anchorage on mileage to help and what an UNDERSTATEMENT that is!

We made trip after trip to Alyeska with stuff going both ways, packing, unpacking as we went and wearing ourselves out each day.  My computer on order didn’t arrive so Carol brought her’s so I could put ads on Craigslist for the furniture.  We borrow my friend’s car and trailer and we both drove a vehicle and made about 2-3 trips this way.  We rented a van one day and moved even more.  My car drove back and forth so many times I could just put it on auto.

Can you believe the weather even cooperated with us!  We did this from 10/8-10/25 and we didn’t have any ICE, RAIN, or SNOW!!!!  It was very chilly though.

All the previous moves were fun, exciting, closure, and now this.  It was by far the most emotional of all.  First, the ski cabin transformed from a great ski cabin to my home.  It has taken on an entirely different appearance.  The three bedrooms became one and two rooms nicely decorated with furniture…that I couldn’t part with.  Am I really a HOARDER???  So if I have company I have a blow up queen size mattress that will still fit in either bedroom but real beds just take up to much room in such a little place.  Really bottom line, it is now a beautiful cozy home with wonderful warm fuzzy memories of years gone by where the fire was warm, hot choc. was plentiful as were laughing children.  Ah, to have it all back again….

So the final days near and it’s down to the stuff that didn’t sell.  That was the worst, giving such usable great furniture to the Salvation Army.  I actually broke down and cried when things left that Jim and I had lived with for so many years.  Another chapter slammed shut….  When will this ever end?

So the house is empty, Carol gets on the plane, closing goes great, Alyeska is all unpacked, pictures hung, car put away and I flew back to Palm Springs on 11/2.   Another job done.

And how can I ever thank Carol for all her help.  Stay tuned and see…..

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