Woohoo!!!!

Car, in Garage

        We’re in! We got the keys today and took a couple carloads over to the new house. And we drove the car into the garage—what a concept. When I was growing up, through several houses that our family lived in, the garage never had a car in it; it was full of Stuff. We are going to keep our car in our garage. No more leaves or grime or ice. The car will be kept clean and dry.

Mrs. Random imagining the Future

        We took a small table and some chairs, a bit of food and drink, and powered speakers that we can play music through from a phone. We also took a couple new rugs that Mrs. R ordered some time ago, waiting until today in their original shipping boxes, and they both look great.

After two dairy crates of vinyl

        And every trip we make, I’ll haul a small dairy crate of records over, so it won’t be an overwhelming job transferring 1500 vinyl discs across town. We put up some curtains, too. So already after only a few hours, it’s feeling like our own place. Woohoo!!!!

Big week

From our hike yesterday at Howard Buford Recreation Area

It rained overnight! The first rain after weeks of warm dry weather smells so good. We have the front door open, letting in the cool damp air as we drink our coffee here in the early morning, sitting in the living room of our old house.

Big week for the Randoms….

On Monday, Mrs. R had the chemo port in her upper chest removed after enduring it for over a year. It was a relatively minor procedure, requiring a local anesthetic to numb up the area. Two days later she’s still feeling a little sore there, but hopefully it will all be healed up soon.

During the next couple days, we’ll sign and close on the new house. On Friday we’ll get the keys. Movers and cleaners have been busy. Our real estate agent sent photos yesterday, and the place is looking quite ready to move into. Before we start living there, though, we’ll get the sewer repaired. That’s scheduled later this month and it will take a couple days. In the meantime, we’ll be moving stuff over in carloads, and we’ll get help from friends with trucks for bigger things. And THEN, with a newly fixed sewer, we can move ourselves and our cats over there and start living in our new house for real!

Sneak peek! Below are a couple of real estate photos of our new place from a few years ago.