File this under "Moving"

Sorry for the delay, but moving in has been a time-consuming process! And exhausting! These pictures were taken Sat., 6/14. Our wonderfully helpful daughter and son-in-law, who came up and did all kinds of fun things--- starting with directing traffic on our road, as the Brier police informed Jim in no uncertain terms that we would have to have someone directing traffic if the moving van was to stay parked there. Hmmm- guess no one driving down a straight, relatively flat section of road on a clear day, at the posted 20mph (ha ha) could see that there was a BIG truck in the street and they just MIGHT have to slow down to see if anyone was coming the other direction. So Nate spent a good part of the day standing in a very wet (this IS the northwest) ditch holding a red pendaflex folder marked "STOP". It was the only red thing we could find in the boxes as they came off the truck! Anne marked off numbers as items came off the truck. We all traded off and on with these tasks from 10 until 4.


The 2 movers, Carlito (who drove way too many hours from Ripon with drops in Portland and Seattle) and Paul were good natured-- some "interesting" discussions were prompted by the labels on the boxes of Jim's books. Carlito: "This box says 'Occult'- what is that about?" Anne: "you know- cults like Wicca, witches, that kind of stuff" Paul: "I don't want to TOUCH that!-- wait- here is a box of Bibles- that should protect me if I carry them at the same time."
We were able to tell these friendly pagans the truth, and we are praying for them both.













So while the movers were asking "where's this go" etc- and we were rapidly coming to the conclusion that we have WAY too much stuff, I was in the kitchen making a cherry cobbler for our Father's Day celebration with Ken, Sherri and Nate's sister, Kristen. (The California cherries from Jan and Randy are a real hit here! ) It was really more fun than these pictures indicate- I think we were all tired. The Ellis' (Sr) brought some great steaks, and Anne made the rest of the dinner. We are enjoying having the barbeque right off the kitchen on the deck! And I love the light-filled eating area, complete with a HUGE table that seats 8 easily. (seems to go with the house- the 1st owner left it for the people we are renting from, and they are leaving it, too.)
So we are here- figuring out where stuff got packed, and settling in. Plus getting lost a lot- but I will let Jim explain that one.