The Move

Our latest move was only about thirty miles distance. 


This time we had selected  an apartment BEFORE we moved. This simple thing eliminated some of the stress.


We also had the sense NOT to move our stuff by "Budget" truck rental company. Instead we rented a sixteen-foot Penske truck and it was a wonderful experience. (I LOVE to be a temporary trucker--it is such fun to look down on all the little cars from a grand high-up cab!)


We can move ALL our impedimenta OURSELVES in about three hours. We have learned to own only objects we can easily lift. We had a heavy computer desk which we managed to load onto the truck but which fell apart when we tried to load it onto a hand truck to bring it up the sidewalk to our new apartment. So it arrived in our new apartment in pieces and we tossed 'em in the trash dumpster the next morning.


We had accumulated quite a few books--several hundred pounds of them--in the ten years since we have lived in California--but we had packed them in small boxes weighing no more than fifteen or so pounds each so they were easy to carry. (Oddly enough we have decided to give most of them away now--we will retain only those which fit into our one small  bookcase.) There are usually good public libraries in every town in California so we seldom re-read any of our own books anyway.


The rest of our stuff are things we use almost daily.


I have collected about twenty papier mache "works of art"--things I have crafted over the last three years (my three wasted years, I call them). Some are pretty big but all of them are light weight  and they all fit into the storage closet that comes with the apartment.

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