We bundled up and took a ride to the main house to check on it since the temps have been in the 20s. Before we headed out, we loaded the car with a few boxes because I wanted to box up the AUTUMN DECORATIONS on the fireplace mantle and in the garden window. Post Office stop and then onto a drive across the prairie in this cold weather.
Thankful we have heat in our little car, but as I was driving I noticed our windshield had a crack on the left side. Sigh. I think with the deer hitting our car in October that this caused stress on the car frame and the window would feel the brunt of the impact. With the colder than usual temps, the windshield cracked.
We'd pick up our meds at the local pharmacy. We'll have to get use to not being in the same town as our pharmacy. We'll need to coordinate purchasing most of our meds at the same time. Can we do this? Going to try.
Hubby shoveled the main house's long sidewalks since it snowed. He said it's a lot of sidewalk to shovel. After the sale of the house, we will have so little sidewalk to shovel it will seem like a synch when we do shovel snow off. I went inside and checked the faucets and flushed the toilets.
Walking through the empty house, I said another round of good-byes to it. Once again I will miss living in the 1883 structure. The house looks so pretty to me and I thought about what we had done to it since 2017 when we bought her.
Boxing up the faux pumpkins and garland plus the Autumn wreath with globe, it will be my last time to decorate this house. I need to remove the Fall Wreaths off the front doors and remove a few more things from the property. Tomorrow, I will empty the front porch urns and remove them from this property.
We have some patio furniture and a metal arch that's got to go as well. Hubby has a couple of ladders to move away. We'll probably rent a truck to move these larger items. It will seem odd when we no longer have anything left to remove from the property. ODD.
After we sell the house, I have said that I do not want to drive by the property for at least a year. I don't think I could bare seeing it.
On our way to Manhattan to get some storage boxes and groceries for my RED, PURPLE and BLUE FOOD DAYS, we stopped off at one of our storage units to check to see if CHRISTMAS GARLAND was stashed there. It wasn't so we left with a couple of CHRISTMAS WREATHS. How quickly this past year has gone as it seems like I just created these wreaths instead of it being a year ago. The red berries on the wreaths popped due to the bitter cold weather. I'll need to trim the bad berries and call it good. These wreaths will more than likely go on the COTTAGE's front doors.
Onto Starbucks for green tea for me and WENDY's for chili. MENARDS is in the neighborhood for storage boxes. They had very nice CHRISTMAS containers with greenery for sale. I bought two of them to place in the urns I will bring HOME tomorrow. The urns will be placed on both sides of the cement steps to hold these CHRISTMAS containers. I had plans to buy 2 small Christmas trees to place in the urns to decorate the porch, but the greenery was a decent price so I went with the greenery.
If I cannot decorate the inside of the house with a large CHRISTMAS TREE then I will decorate the porch instead. This will help lift my CHRISTMAS SPIRITS.
From MENARDs we went to ALDI and HY-VEE to purchased some foods for my COLOR WHEEL DIET. I left the grocery stores saying the price of food has gotten more expensive.
On our way out of town we did a GOODWILL drop and went by the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS to see the Christmas display. It does not seem like it's been an entire year since we did this. No way, but it has been. I'm in a twilight zone. A time warp of sorts. Where did the year go to?
The drive across the prairie went fast and we unloaded the car after having sweet potato chips and some cheese. This was ORANGE DAY so eating these orange foods was legal. Watched some television and rested. Went through the mail and paperwork. Rearranged the fridge. Put groceries away. The joy of having a nice refrigerator to store food in.
As the clock struck midnight making tomorrow today, I ate some pink yogurt made with cherries. Cherries are red and this is legal with the new day being RED DAY. grins. Yogurt is less fattening than ice cream so I allowed myself a cold treat. Drank water throughout the day.
As we figure out what we need to do, I wrote some notes down so I don't forget. Hubby has got to visit with our Insurance Agent about our COTTAGE Insurance going from a rental to main residence. He had already paid the insurance, but the Insurance Company has not acknowledged that it was paid so he had to go through emails to find evidence it was. It can be frustrating when the info is not in the computer data. When the Insurance company has messed up, they are forgiving on themselves, but when a customer messes up, the story is different. Seems to be the way businesses run these days including our government. They excuse themselves when wrong. As a citizen, it isn't this way. My advice is to keep excellent records at all times and when they say to destroy documentation, DON'T.
I want to bring the urns home with me. They are rather heavy so it will take two people to carry them to the car and lift them. Again to unload them. I'll place the CHRISTMAS containers in the urns and admire them.
I'm THANKFUL Thanksgiving has come and gone. We continue going through our moving boxes. I may be slow, but I'm steady. To make this more fun, I have to rest and think about where I am going with the goods.
1. Autumn Decorations moved to cellar.
2. Bought a turkey and it needs to go to the freezer in the cellar.
3. Some duct tubing needs to be pulled through the vent in the bathroom.
4. Trip to Insurance Company to speak with Agent.
5. Load up 2 urns from main house porch.
6. Take urns HOME placing Christmas containers in them and sitting in the flowerbeds.
7. Load of laundry.
8. Mail Mom a letter.
9. Box up Mom's china and take to the cellar.
10. Go looking in shed for faux garland and sprigs.
11. Place some sprigs above mirrors and pictures.
12. Continue unpacking.
Since it's RED DAY on the COLOR WHEEL DIET, I'll have strawberries and raspberries for breakfast.
Lunch will be meatless chili made of red kidney beans.
Supper will be salmon steak, red peppers, red onion, red potatoes, watermelon.
Snack will be a red delicious apple.
Water to drink throughout the day.
I am a broken record. Getting unpacked is a priority. I will need to take some time to pray and meditate on a scripture.
A couple of my school mates have passed away. SO many people I have known have died. Time marches on and I need to continue on thinning things out. I need to work fast and get this done.
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