Day 277, Year 11: Storage Unit Progress
Date: Monday, July 25, 2016
Weather: Hot and Humid; High 84 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Studio #8, Falmouth, MA
Although I am totally overwhelmed with the amount of ‘stuff’ that is now in this apartment, our storage unit is almost empty. Lee’s goal is to empty that unit tomorrow so that we will finally be storage unit free. There are a few things that we just don’t have room for here in the apartment, but once again good friends have stepped forward with an offer. Bruce and Jane Woodin are willing to let us put a few things in their basement and that will help tremendously. Thank you, Bruce and Jane. I have been constantly overwhelmed with the generosity of our friends and family. We are almost there. Thank you to everyone who has pitched in to help us. And a special thanks to Lee and Mary Ellen. Today they got three boxes of books packed up and sent to Windbird’s new owners in addition to getting more things transferred from the storage unit to here.
Today was the first day of classes at the Science School in Woods Hole for Sam and Jonah. Our schedule worked out quite nicely. We all drove Sam to his class at 10:45 and then Jonah, Ollie, and I went to the Woods Hole Exhibit Center. The classes last an hour and a half, so after exploring new things to us at the Exhibit Center, we went to pick Sam up and drop Jonah off for his class. On normal days Sam, Ollie, and I would hang out doing something in Woods Hole until the end of Jonah’s class, but today Jonah had a mid-afternoon doctor’s appointment, we Sam, Ollie, and I headed home and Heather picked up Jonah and took him to the doctor. It will take us a few days to get into a workable schedule, but we are so fortunate that there are so many things to do in Woods Hole.
Tomorrow is my day off Camp Oma, so I will be able to help Lee and ME with the move of the last things from the storage unit. We have some strange items that need to find a home—cherry and walnut boards cut from trees on our farm in West Virginia in the early 1980’s, the skull of our milk cow from that same era, a musical instrument called a kora from West Africa, a djembe drum Justin made while living in West Africa, a small loom, a horse collar and hames, an antique hand wringer for clothes, a scythe for cutting tall grass, lots of things we purchased while sailing around the world, hundreds of old records, and on and on. What a weird collection of things! None of this is worth much, but it is so hard to part with these things. Stuffing it all into our small apartment, making it hard to walk around, is probably the best solution. It will not take long to know what we really want to keep and what we really want to get rid of as soon as possible. Whatever we do with the items, tomorrow is Lee’s deadline for emptying the storage unit. Once that is done, we’ll switch gears and get ready to have Heather and boys over for dinner tomorrow evening. Lee and ME are treating us to steaks on the grill. Then there is a Chicago Cubs game on ESPN. The Cubs are Lee’s and Jonah’s favorite team, so for sure we’ll watch part of the game before Heather has to get the kids home and in bed for the night.
