The Big Move
Dec. 3rd, 2022 12:08 pmI promised ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
susandennis a post about our move to the retirement community, so here it is.
Moving day was last Monday. Despite the best-laid plans, etc., we were up until 2 AM Sunday night/Monday morning packing, and still had stuff to do before the movers came (shortly after 8 AM). That made for rather a short night.
The movers (Gentle Giant, whom I recommend highly to anyone in eastern MA) were friendly and efficient. The piano movers (a separate group, from a subsidiary) were even more efficient. They were also very dubious when they saw the elevator at the new place, but as it turned out the piano did fit (just), and so here it is in the living room waiting for me to get enough time to play it. (Also to be tuned, and for a repair to the add-on humidity-control system – the supports at one end of the tank were badly corroded; the technician is coming two weeks from today.)
A few not-very-important things got broken – something that's basically impossible to avoid; the only major casualty was my computer chair, which apparently lost a part somewhere along the line, and as it happened we had a spare one on the third floor that we hadn't originally planned to bring, so that's been dealt with.
Oh, and the TV (which we brought ourselves because we didn't have the box for it) wouldn't turn on after we installed it here, so we had to buy a new one, which is up and running. However, the TiVo seems to be unable to use the wi-fi, which is working fine for the computers, so unless we can figure it out we'll have to keep our Comcast internet, which we had hoped to cancel.
We've already been back to Cambridge twice to pick up things that we didn't have room or time to bring on Monday, and there's more to come (fortunately, we' had other reasons to be in Cambridge both Tuesday and Thursday, and the same is true next Tuesday and Thursday). We don't actually turn the house over to the buyer until January 4, so we have time to finish the removal/cleanup of stuff we're not keeping (we got rid of a lot of it already, but there's a good deal more).
Most of the absolutely essential things are unpacked, and we have the kitchen in working order, although we need to figure out some better storage for some stuff. It's going to take a while to get used to the electric stove (we've both had gas all our lives) and figure out the optimal use of the dishwasher (something neither of us has ever owned).
Pretty much none of the books have been unpacked, and the stereo is not set up (I know, usually the first thing), partly because the shelf that held (and will hold) it needs to be stabilized, and partly because there are lots of speakers with lots of wires to be run somehow.
It's beginning to feel like a-place where we actually live. There's still a fair amount of "I wonder where [thing] is", which I expect will continue indefinitely, hopefully for diminishing values of [thing].
And so the new chapter begins.
susandennis a post about our move to the retirement community, so here it is.Moving day was last Monday. Despite the best-laid plans, etc., we were up until 2 AM Sunday night/Monday morning packing, and still had stuff to do before the movers came (shortly after 8 AM). That made for rather a short night.
The movers (Gentle Giant, whom I recommend highly to anyone in eastern MA) were friendly and efficient. The piano movers (a separate group, from a subsidiary) were even more efficient. They were also very dubious when they saw the elevator at the new place, but as it turned out the piano did fit (just), and so here it is in the living room waiting for me to get enough time to play it. (Also to be tuned, and for a repair to the add-on humidity-control system – the supports at one end of the tank were badly corroded; the technician is coming two weeks from today.)
A few not-very-important things got broken – something that's basically impossible to avoid; the only major casualty was my computer chair, which apparently lost a part somewhere along the line, and as it happened we had a spare one on the third floor that we hadn't originally planned to bring, so that's been dealt with.
Oh, and the TV (which we brought ourselves because we didn't have the box for it) wouldn't turn on after we installed it here, so we had to buy a new one, which is up and running. However, the TiVo seems to be unable to use the wi-fi, which is working fine for the computers, so unless we can figure it out we'll have to keep our Comcast internet, which we had hoped to cancel.
We've already been back to Cambridge twice to pick up things that we didn't have room or time to bring on Monday, and there's more to come (fortunately, we' had other reasons to be in Cambridge both Tuesday and Thursday, and the same is true next Tuesday and Thursday). We don't actually turn the house over to the buyer until January 4, so we have time to finish the removal/cleanup of stuff we're not keeping (we got rid of a lot of it already, but there's a good deal more).
Most of the absolutely essential things are unpacked, and we have the kitchen in working order, although we need to figure out some better storage for some stuff. It's going to take a while to get used to the electric stove (we've both had gas all our lives) and figure out the optimal use of the dishwasher (something neither of us has ever owned).
Pretty much none of the books have been unpacked, and the stereo is not set up (I know, usually the first thing), partly because the shelf that held (and will hold) it needs to be stabilized, and partly because there are lots of speakers with lots of wires to be run somehow.
It's beginning to feel like a-place where we actually live. There's still a fair amount of "I wonder where [thing] is", which I expect will continue indefinitely, hopefully for diminishing values of [thing].
And so the new chapter begins.
