Packing up Louisville

The next two weeks were CRAZY!!!!!

I've done crazy before but it has never been like this .  I had to pack up the whole house - in less than two weeks.  I also had to sell a whole bunch of items that will not fit in our new house.  The selling of items went way better than if I had to have a garage or yard sale, because I sold them via Facebook Marketplace, but it took a lot of time to answer people's questions and responses.  It became something that kept interrupting me while I was trying to pack up.

I ended up selling 6 bookshelves, Marissa's desk, two queen beds, the couch in the basement, the table in the basement, dishes, and more.  I got ride of - donated, the green couches, the office desk, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't even remember now. 

Every day went like this:  wake up at 6:00 AM.  Pack, go to Lowe's to get more packing materials - boxes, bubble wrap, and tape.  Go back home, wrap art, box things, and continue in the same process until midnight.  Push pause, play, repeat!  Day after day.  

Kitchen

tried to sell these - no takers

Almost everything is packed - bubble wrapped or ready to load.

The master bedroom is reduced to a tower of boxes.

Entertainment room is all packed up

Game room - redesigned - haha

The hardest thing to leave bind is the growth records on the door frame!

I added another POD because I didn't believe that all of our stuff will fit in 2 - I now have 3 PODS being delivered on 3/26.  They will load them on 3/27.  They will remove them on 3/28.  We will settle a day early on 3/28 (the buyers will sign the papers on 3/29 and transfer the money to our closing in Texas on 3/29).  We will purchase our new home in Texas on 3/29.

Thank goodness I added the third POD.  We ran out of room with just two stories.  I should have had 4 PODS.  We actually ran out of room around 4 PM on 3/27.  I had to call around to find a rental truck that  will do one way packages.  Mark had to drive to PENZKE to pick up a truck.  He brought it back to the house in time for the guys that I was paying to load the PENZKE truck too.  It was a miracle!  A real MIRACLE!

On 3/28 Mark and I attended closing at 9:00 AM.  

While at closing our friend, Sarah Dodson called and said she was not going to babysit our cat for the month that she had agreed to babysit our cat.  She decided to tell us this while we were in closing with less than one hour before we are supposed to leave for Texas.  WHAT!!!!!   Unbelievable - but okay.  We will figure it out.  I made some quick calls and was able to secure a spot for Jasper at the Springhurst Vet for  a week.  I will have to fly from Seattle to Louisville to come back and pick him up and then drive to Austin with him.  Then we will have to find someone in Austin to babysit him while we are on our trip to UT and California.  

We came back to the house.  Sarah met us there and gave us Jasper and everything we gave her to take care of him.  It was so awkward because I wanted to be upset, but I couldn't.  I just took it like a trooper and said thanks for taking care of him for the night.  IT really did help to have Jasper out of the house while the people loaded up the PODS.  

At the house, parked the silver car in front of the Heagy's house and realized we no longer live her.  It was so sad.  The last few items were loaded up in the Penske - we took these parting photos - then Mark got in the van, and I got in the RAV4 and off we went.  This Chapter in our lives has come to an end.  

Saying good bye to Louisville