Moving Days and Calendar Checks

Alaska, you can be funny sometimes!  More on that in a minute...

But first...We got a place to live!  Yay!  We moved about half in today and will hopefully have the rest done on Saturday with tomorrow being used to load up and clean up out of the house sitting job.  I am hoping.  With both of us having to work, it's kind of difficult to see it through as quickly as we hoped.  But you never know.  If things get done faster than I think tomorrow, we just might be done and I can go home after work.  That's a possibility if Mister has help during the day.  Possible but not probable.  Saturday is looking good for getting everything done.  Sunday for cleaning and one last walk through here at the house we are watching.  They'll be home a couple of days after that so great timing all in all.  All of the boxes we had stored (and yes a fair amount had pictures and theocratic books) got soaked due to a leaky trailer roof we had no idea was happening the past few weeks.  So it remains to be seen just how much we are able to save.  They are still boxed up in the house right now.  There has been no time to unpack them yet.  I am thinking of getting some nice totes or something to put them in so that this doesn't happen again for storage and easy locating what we are able to salvage.  No bookshelves = nowhere to display them.  And to be honest, I'm not keen on adding bookshelves to my life right now.  Weird I know.  But it just feels like they don't belong.  It's hard to explain, but I am left with a feeling of clutter and dirt/dust and all that comes with them that I'm not really wanting to take on again.  It's hard to stay up on keeping them clean and not have random objects appear in, around, and on them all the time.  OCD strikes again!  Funny thing is, though, I I'm not nearly as adamant on being clean as I used to be.  I used to not stop until every stitch of laundry was in its place  Ironed.  Hung up.  Folded.  Put away.  But the last few weeks, I'm fortunate if I'm not folding last weeks' laundry while washing the current weeks'.   Just no motivation.  Perhaps that will change in this place.  As I tidy up and organize, I am sure that I'll want it to stay that way.  Small places thrive on proper organization.  It is our home after all.  It's hard to put your heart into cleaning and organizing a temporary residence like a house sitting job.  Oh and when moving some boxes in today, I broke a few dishes already when I dropped a box.  But oh well.  These things happen.  At least I'm the one that dropped it.  No harm done.  These things can be replaced.

Now back to the ever entertaining Alaska.  They (the DMV) have extended the removal date for studded snow tires to Mid-May to allow for....gasp...winter storm advisory this weekend here.  It is May, right?  Right?  And May usually means Spring/early Summer.  At least it always has before.  On the upside, it has been a fabulous couple of days up till now weather wise and I have been enjoying it so much.  The extended daylight does a soul good.  And  when the Auroras come out, it's even better.  But the unmistakable chill in the air tonight says that they've probably got that winter storm warning just about right.  Sigh.  Good thing the studs are still on the Jeep.

Well, better get my rest.  We've got a very busy few weeks ahead of us with getting settled, changing congregations due to the move, circuit overseer visit with current congregation, two day Circuit Assembly, and then circuit overseer visit with new congregation.  Phew!  Can't wait.  Here's to a happy summer for all and sunshine and warmth your way.

Oh, and to answer the question I know is going through your mind...No...the new place is not an igloo.  Glad we got that cleared up!