This has been a wonderful stay at home day. I was up between 4:00 and 6:00 this morning but was able to go back to bed and got a second sleep of a couple of hours. That was a very good thing.
I went downstairs and finished packing up all but the last minute stuff from downstairs. My car is overloaded with stuff to take to the Salvation Army and the Friends of the Library. I will do that Monday when I go to town for exercise.
I found some wrapping paper for moving that I didn’t know I had. That will come in handy when I pack the kitchen stuff in another week or so. Found lots of empty boxes to put in recycling and a couple more things to sell.
I have two yarn winders I need to sell. Both are wood and work well. You can have both for $25. I don’t have the yarn ball winder that goes with it. Not sure what happened to it – I may find it later.
There is a lot of smoke in the air today. Can’t tell where they are burning at but looks like a lot of it is happening. Not much wind today so the smoke is hanging around and not moving away from me. Not a good day for anyone to be outside that has asthma or allergy issues.
I went out this morning and did my final mow with the big mower. The mower is going to its new house tomorrow morning. If we don’t get any rain I won’t have to mow next week. I have the little riding mower if it does rain. I won’t mow the whole yard but I could do the up close part with the smaller riding mower if I absolutely had to.
The mower has about 140 hours on it. I probably put 130 or more of those on it. That’s a lot of mowing over the years. It served me well and rarely gave me issues. John Deere helped me take good care of it.
The insurance adjuster I have worked with since the hail damage called me this morning. He is mailing me my final claim check this week. I think he called to say thanks more than anything. He thought I got things restored in record time. He told me he still had open claims from damage done five years ago. Yikes. I can’t function like that. As far as I was concerned my restoration took way too long. The adjuster did a nice job for the most part and I am grateful for his help. I’m even more grateful that it is over. One more file I can get rid of and cross off my pending list.
The line dance lessons I was going to go to tomorrow got canceled so I think I get to stay home all weekend now. We shall see if that can happen or not but it will be nice if it does. Staying home grounds me and fills my soul. I feel like I have been running low lately and need to stop and refill.
Next week is my last week in this house. I move a week from next Tuesday. I’m having some friends over Tuesday evening for dinner and then some other friends over Thursday for lunch. That will help make the week go by quickly.
When I go to town Monday, I will drop off the stuff at Salvation Army and the library. I also need to go to my insurance agent’s office and arrange for dropping this house insurance and adding contents to the rental house I am moving into. I also have another rental house I need to get changed to this agent. I will do exercises and then stop and get groceries for Tuesday night’s dinner. It will be a busy trip to town.
Some time next week I need to meet with my tax accountant and find out the consequences of selling this house and how I am to treat the rental house since I am moving into it temporarily. I may have to pay myself rent. I also need to find out the tax ramifications of doing rent-to-own with the kids rentals. I don’t want to wait to the end of the year to get all that sorted out. I know I will have to pay some taxes next year and will need to send in some estimated tax payments. I don’t like penalties and if I don’t get that sent it I will have to pay a penalty next year when I file. Sometimes moving can get complicated and this all feels complicated to me.
My facebook memories reminded me that a year ago today was when I saw the tornado to the west of the house that I videotaped. It was amazing to watch but also hard to watch as I know the damage tornadoes can do. Luckily no one was killed in this one although lots of people had minor to severe damage done. Grateful it missed me.
I just ordered a fireproof file box to put my files in instead of taking the big file cabinet I have. I am down to one box full of files that I regularly use and no longer need a four drawer cabinet. Guess I will try to sell the cabinet but am thinking no one will want it. It is a nice solid oak one and well built. It is the last one I have left from when I kept records for the McDonald’s. It is time to let it go.
I continue to attempt to reduce my belongings and simply my life. I am absolutely amazed at how much extra stuff I still had. Big houses hold too much stuff! I had the room so I guess I quit seeing the stuff as extra. Grateful for this opportunity to reduce and lighten my load.
Sitting in a good head space today. Feels good to know that the basement is almost all packed and another car load is out of the house. I will have a big load to take to recycling next week when I empty the current load out of my car. Then I can get the garage cleaned out and finish packing it up.
Step by step, I am moving closer daily to being ready for this big move. I can do hard things!
Grateful the basement is cleaned out, grateful another big load is leaving the house, and grateful the mower is going to its new house tomorrow.