2023 Life Logs, Day 160: More Moving Progress
Date: Friday, June 9, 2023
Weather: Partly Cloudy: High 67, Low 51 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
From now until moving day, I hope to make just a little more progress each day. Today was different from yesterday. Yesterday Christina and I got over 40 boxes packed. Today I only got a couple of boxes packed, but Karen Baranowski came over and she helped me get all of the food the food in my pantry into plastic storage boxes that can be packed up quickly. And we started getting the spices out of the drawer in kitchen and into a plastic box. The box was not big enough and that led to a trip to Walmart to get additional plastic storage boxes. She also helped me move things into my dresser that will be in the dining room in the new house as storage for table cloths and placemats. The clothes that were in that dresser went into a bureau in the guest bedroom that will be in my bedroom in the new house. Progress was made.
In the afternoon, I did the needed shopping in town and did a little more work on the drip irrigation in the garden at the new house. I am hoping to focus on that again tomorrow afternoon. I went to pick up Sam for rowing practice but had missed a text from him saying he had decided not to go today. That added a few hours to my afternoon to do even more move-oriented shopping and time to come home and play outside with Shadow. When we came inside, we actually took a little power nap together on the sofa.
While I was in town, I got a call from Justin. I sat in the Walmart parking lot talking to him for quite some time. I had read in the New York Times earlier this week that Puerto Rico is facing record breaking high temperatures. The combination of normally hot and humid summer weather being impacted by climate change is resulting in temperatures that, this week, made it feel like 125 degrees F. Justin verified that the reports are correct. It has been very hot. Work must go on, but Justin and Jo have taken time to get the kids to the water for daily cool downs. Today they went to a local waterfall
Hopefully the intense heat of this week cools down a bit. It was great to talk to Justin and be brought up to date on their lives these days. They are not going to England this summer but they are going for a little 5-day vacation to Culebra for Jo’s birthday later this month.
