Musings on Moving

It is easier to move across the country than it is across the street! The reason is that a cross country move forces you to pack everything and move all at once. If you have no specific deadline because you are waiting for permits, then moving can take quite a while - over a month for us, and still counting. Now that we finally have our permits, we have to get everything out, and that means everything! We opened the hall closet yesterday thinking that it was empty since we moved the coats, but NO - there was a vacuum cleaner, gloves, hats and things we never use in the warm Florida winters. Oh, man, it's never going to end!

The funniest thing was that I really wanted to leave our television and the various cable boxes connected when we moved those items since it usually takes several trips for the cable company to get our TIVO box hooked up correctly. I do have everything labeled as well as photos, but the thought was if we could just keep it together, life would be simpler. So, creative Guy figured out that we could use the wheelbarrow. What???? It worked perfectly. We put the boxes in the bottom and the TV across the top. Unorthodox, but so is he! We were laughing as we wheeled it down the street under the cover of darkness. Here we are, the Beverly Hillbillies, moving our worldly goods down the street! The only bummer is that it was dark and there are no street lights, thus no photo as my flash is not powerful enough. It would have been a great photo, but use your imagination. Hilarious!

Permits Finally Received!!

We received word this morning that the County has approved our permit application and issued the permit to begin construction. YEA! We have waited a long time for this. Construction updates will be forthcoming!

One down, one to go!

We finally received sign off from our town for our plans. It took three weeks - considerably shorter than our dock permit, but longer than it should have taken. More on this process later...

On to the County. It will most likely be a shorter process than the Town and we hope to be underway soon. Good grief - we will now be starting in November! Yikes. So much for being finished in the spring. At least we won't have the roof off during the rainy and hurricane seasons. That's a good thing, Martha.

More soon, I hope!

Post-Its Everywhere

As we prepare to move, we thought it would be a good thing to put Post-It notes on everything to designate where it was to go. We are putting a lot of items in storage, selling some and moving the rest into the house across the street where we will live during the renovation. Because FRGuy is color blind, care had to be taken with the colors, but I found some that fit the bill. Now, we have Post-Its everywhere.

And I do mean everywhere!!

Critters on the window

Speaking of single pane windows with condensation on them, this was my view from the kitchen window this morning. I sure hope it was a frog....... Definitely not a snake, though - too many appendages!

Clear View

One thing we will not miss is single pane windows that have so much condensation on them in the morning that it is difficult to see out of them.

We Have Ignition!!!!

Well, after literally years of planning and every week in September when we thought this would happen, we have finally applied for a building permit with our town. There are myriad reasons why it has taken so long, but they are moot now that it is finally done. The permit process starts with the town and then goes to the county. It could take as little as three weeks or stretch much longer. It took three months to get a permit to build our boat dock, but that was in boom times, so I remain cautiously optimistic that the process will be on the shorter side now that the town and county building departments have much more time on their hands.

Yikes, we have to move out soon! More about that later.......