Let the big move BEGIN!

Wednesday, July 7th

Well, the big POD arrived this morning about 7:30 with much fanfare on my part (poor sleepy Dave!). The hydraulics (which unfortunately I didn't get because room ran out on the video chip..........grump) on the thing were amazing. The POD guy didn't have to do much but pull levers to maneuver everything.

Here's a movie of the process starring Rocco the Daschund/Chihuahua POD dog. As usual, forgive my amateur photography.........as we know, knitting's my thing!

So, our target dates: We've been packing since we got home late June. POD arrived today, Weds. July 7th where it now sits in front of our cottages and will for at least a week. If we need to, we can keep it an additional week but no more (City of Pacific Grove ordinance). Our goal is to leave Pacific Grove July 24th give or take a few days. It takes 6 working days for the POD folks to get the POD to storage somewhere near Seattle where it will stay until we call them to deliver it to our new home. We'll tow Dave's (beautiful) boat (will post photos of it here at a later date) behind the car on a kayak trailer he's modified for the boat. Law says we cannot drive over 55 mph (which, of course, is just fine with me!) so we'll take 5 days/4 nights to get to Langley which should put us there around July 29th, the day everything is supposed to be complete (final bank walkthrough, etc.) and the day they give us the keys. As soon as we're in the house, we'll call the POD folks and have them deliver our things. We'll then have until August 7th to unload. "The POD process" takes one month; how you use that month (packing/unpacking) is up to you. So far it's been terrific, and I think much cheaper than a regular moving van, AND, you load things yourself. Great idea.

Work on the house is supposed to be done this Friday, July 9th; realtor says it's going well. First thing they did was fix the drainage problem by essentially digging the drain ditch deeper in between the two houses.

Here are photos of it; theory is rain will drain where the rock path is (I believe it's called a French Drain"; the builder has guaranteed it for two years. No one else has had drainage problems there, so we figure things will be fine.

HUGE job at our age! (My back went out at the very beginning of packing; taking things VERY slowly now—no more ice skating ;+})..........Ok, time to get back to packing..............

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