Remember this: if Memorial Day falls near the end of the month, and you have to move that month, give up. You are never going to find any friends available to help! They all have better things to do. Such as ferry family members around town, drink beer and eat hamburgers. And avoid doing heavy lifting.
I should qualify that: some friends heroically helped me empty my storage space out, so I got at least that much done! And another friend helped me with a couple of loads from the cabin, and we moved the big TV but no other large items.
My truck is getting almost 20 mpg which is a good thing, since I've put several hundred miles on it since starting this move. The dogs are starting to glare at me when I ask them, in a very happy, perky tone of voice, "Do you want to go for a RIDE in the TRUCK?"
The first time I brought Sofia back to the old cabin, where Kittymaomao lives, he ran out to greet not me, but her! And ran next to her (and back and forth and under and around and around) all the way up the trail to the house.
My new place is spacious, beautiful, and I can FINALLY unpack! It has enough room for all my stuff (which isn't that much) and I no longer have to pay for that storage space for things that didn't fit in the cabin. Not to mention that it has all the amenities that the other cabin lacked, such as running water! Wheee!
Still, in spite of lots of rain (and all open vehicles) and the 40 miles in between the two cabins, I have enough clothes and stuff to get along until I can round up more folks to really do the move NEXT weekend. You WILL be there, right? We can have a barbeque afterward and then a jam. Come on, it'll be FUN! (We only have to carry that computer desk up a few stairs.)
