What more appropriate way to open the blog than to recount the circuitous route that brought me here?
I spent Thursday morning tromping up and down the stairs at Talla Villa stuffing my car with laundry, cat food, and other odds and ends. Anthony and Nancy saved my life; they showed up and took a ton of stuff I thought I had room for but didn't and helped me clean. We still ended up leaving a lot for Kevin to take care of. It's good I have such wonderful people in my life.
After a fantastic breakfast with Maria, we got on the road. My parents decided to go through Alabama, instead of Georgia, in order to avoid some of the major hills. Good thinking. 30 miles south of Dothan (about an hour and a half from Tallahassee) our pick up truck broke down. My dad and I left my cat and my mom at a produce stand to go track down a U Haul truck in Dothan. The three of us had to move everything from the trailor to the U Haul truck. It was cloudy but didn't rain. Then we hooked up the U Haul trailor to the U Haul truck, returned it to a different location in Dothan, and picked up an auto transport trailor. I got a hotel room in Dotahn while they went back to the produce stand to get the pick up truck. The man at the produce stand had just left when he saw my parents coming back; he turned around to help them load the truck. My dad had to get a running start to get the truck on the trailor--it was wet, and the tires were just spinning. The trailor was only about 6" longer than the truck. We left Dothan Friday morning around 9am and got to Tennessee around 6:30pm. Quite the journey. We were all exhausted from packing on Wednesday, packing on Thursday, and hours and hours of driving. But we survived. And now here I am.
Kevin has found the perfect truck for us and offered to paint it purple. I told him he didn't need to do that... but how funny would that be? :)
I've picked blackberries, watched fireworks, and am being eaten alive by the chiggers. No ticks yet. Earlier I planted sweet potatoes in my mom's garden. Today I'm going to the library, more blackberry pickin', the swimming hole, and I'll get on Partner for the first time this evening. The purple maize is huge, and so are all my plans!
Thank you to all the wonderful people in my life who made this move possible.
I spent Thursday morning tromping up and down the stairs at Talla Villa stuffing my car with laundry, cat food, and other odds and ends. Anthony and Nancy saved my life; they showed up and took a ton of stuff I thought I had room for but didn't and helped me clean. We still ended up leaving a lot for Kevin to take care of. It's good I have such wonderful people in my life.After a fantastic breakfast with Maria, we got on the road. My parents decided to go through Alabama, instead of Georgia, in order to avoid some of the major hills. Good thinking. 30 miles south of Dothan (about an hour and a half from Tallahassee) our pick up truck broke down. My dad and I left my cat and my mom at a produce stand to go track down a U Haul truck in Dothan. The three of us had to move everything from the trailor to the U Haul truck. It was cloudy but didn't rain. Then we hooked up the U Haul trailor to the U Haul truck, returned it to a different location in Dothan, and picked up an auto transport trailor. I got a hotel room in Dotahn while they went back to the produce stand to get the pick up truck. The man at the produce stand had just left when he saw my parents coming back; he turned around to help them load the truck. My dad had to get a running start to get the truck on the trailor--it was wet, and the tires were just spinning. The trailor was only about 6" longer than the truck. We left Dothan Friday morning around 9am and got to Tennessee around 6:30pm. Quite the journey. We were all exhausted from packing on Wednesday, packing on Thursday, and hours and hours of driving. But we survived. And now here I am.
Kevin has found the perfect truck for us and offered to paint it purple. I told him he didn't need to do that... but how funny would that be? :)
I've picked blackberries, watched fireworks, and am being eaten alive by the chiggers. No ticks yet. Earlier I planted sweet potatoes in my mom's garden. Today I'm going to the library, more blackberry pickin', the swimming hole, and I'll get on Partner for the first time this evening. The purple maize is huge, and so are all my plans!
Thank you to all the wonderful people in my life who made this move possible.
