3D needlework

Yeah. I did a garage sale and now every time I can't find something I have a
panic attack that I must have sold it. Sometimes I'm wrong.

Reading your description, I'm glad again that I made special arrangements for
my stitching stuff. You'll have to start a new project (evil grin). It's too
bad you are in moving limbo, so to speak. It is such a pleasure to start
unpacking things and getting them into order. It will have been so long for you
when you unpack that I'm sure you will have forgotten some things.

Dora

(Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.)


We made lists and numbered the boxes also.
But basically what happened was around the 2/3 point of packing,
thinking we still had 30 days to vacate, closing got pushed up 3 weeks
and we ended up having only 3 days to finish packing.

Needless to say, we flew through everything like a house a fire,
renting several storage sheds and getting the house empty.
Then we moved to temporary quarters locally while making several trips
530 miles away to relocate from the local storage sheds to the ones
way down south. I STILL have things in St. Louis in storage and most
of my things are now down here in Knoxville in various storage sheds.

Most of the boxes are numbered and color coded and correspond to typed
lists of whats in them. But WHERE are the boxes, hi hi....
Some boxes are in a climate controlled storage facility (things we
knew could be damaged), some things are in free standing storage
areas, and some in those strip garage type places.

We are currently only living in temporary very cramped quarters here
too, no room to unpack anything really. All we know for sure, was the
stuff we saved for last to pack in a rush, is all in one storage shed.
That we have been tackling a box at a time, but it is really slow
going, as everything needs to be repacked, listed, boxes numbered and
marked and sent to the type storage suitable for what was repacked.

After having such a large auction and getting rid of tons of stuff,
it's amazing how much we still kept. But as usual, much of the stuff
we auctioned off is the stuff I wish we still had.

TTUL
Gary

Hi Dora

I know, it's a real bummer.
I find the major parts of things, but not the parts needed to make it
work.

I had planned on buying a house before moving down here, but things
kept backfiring on us.

Now it looks like it will be quite a while before we have our own
place. Not because of lack of effort, but the situation changed
considerably and we have certain responsibilities to take care of that
will keep us where we are for awhile.

Hmmmmmm, that could be construed the wrong way the way I worded it.

We had planned on getting a house and fixing it up so that it had a
separate apartment in it, looking toward the future of taking care of
Debi's Dad when the time came. We figured her mother would pass away
first as she is the one with all the medical problems.
Besides the sudden move already mentioned because of an early closing
on our house and sticking everything in storage, we were only down
here about 3 weeks when her father suddenly became ill, was
hospitalized and quickly lost ground until he passed away.

This left no one to tend to her ailing and aging mothers immediate
needs. Debi took a job which leaves me here at home to take care of
her mom while she's at work. I sold my businesses, except one, that
requires little physical time to handle, so I am available to handle
the necessities around here. Maid, Gardener, chief cook and
bottlewasher, laundry, etc.
I can handle all of this much easier than Debi can! Not bragging, my
late wife was completely disabled the last 5 years of her life, but
could not do much prior to that either.

So, we moved into a single room in her mom and dads house, leaving
everything in storage until we can get a place of our own.
However, with her dad gone first, I had to step into his shoes so to
speak and take care of this place first. Because of his age, much
needed maintenance had fallen by the wayside.
I guess at 80+ years old, the fact something will only last another 5
or 10 years if it isn't fixed, don't mean a whole lot anymore, and
there are more important things to worry about.
The woods kept getting larger and the backyard smaller! Hey, less to
mow and trim! I don't blame him one bit!
Most of the bushes went untrimmed and got very large. Many were
filled with weeds and even small trees had come up and grown quite
large within the bushes. I know he just didn't have the energy to
keep up with it all, not knowing the modern techniques of doing
things.
Even before Debi and I were married, I trimmed up everything, removed
the unwanted wild trees and mulched heavily. A simple squirt of
RoundUp every couple of weeks would keep everything in shape.
But the oldsters only know about pulling weeds by hand and tossing on
more mulch. So by the time we were back here, everything looked
almost as it did before.
I cleaned everything up again and now it only takes a few minutes per
week to keep the weeds at bay using products like RoundUp.
Then I started attacking the other maintenance chores that are ongoing
and forever, hi hi.....

As they say, Hindsight is 20/20!
If I knew in advance how things were going to turn out, I would have
packed things a whole lot differently.
Boxes marked living room, den, kitchen, hall, etc. have no meaning
when you don't have any of those places to put things yet.
Plus, things were not packed with temperature control and long storage
in mind. So any box that has anything in it that might be subject to
heat or cold exposure is in climate controlled storage, very expensive
when a box may be mostly towels or flatware, just because there is a
radio or clock or expensive figurine in the same box.

I did sit up last night until about 2AM stitching on the Old Mill, I
have found everything I need to get back to work on that project and
made a special place by my bedstead for it.

TTUL
Gary

Well, I'm glad you have your Old Mill to turn to when resting from your labors.
My backyard aka the dandilion plantation doesn't sound half as bad as yours,
but it takes time to get things into shape if they have been neglected.

Moving in itself is stressful, but not being able to settle, and the death of
family members would make it even more so. It sounds like you're coping
remarkably well under the circumstances. I hope things work out for the best.

Dora

(Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.)


Hi Dora

I know, it's a real bummer.
I find the major parts of things, but not the parts needed to make it
work.

I had planned on buying a house before moving down here, but things
kept backfiring on us.

Now it looks like it will be quite a while before we have our own
place. Not because of lack of effort, but the situation changed
considerably and we have certain responsibilities to take care of that
will keep us where we are for awhile.

Hmmmmmm, that could be construed the wrong way the way I worded it.

We had planned on getting a house and fixing it up so that it had a
separate apartment in it, looking toward the future of taking care of
Debi's Dad when the time came. We figured her mother would pass away
first as she is the one with all the medical problems.
Besides the sudden move already mentioned because of an early closing
on our house and sticking everything in storage, we were only down
here about 3 weeks when her father suddenly became ill, was
hospitalized and quickly lost ground until he passed away.

This left no one to tend to her ailing and aging mothers immediate
needs. Debi took a job which leaves me here at home to take care of
her mom while she's at work. I sold my businesses, except one, that
requires little physical time to handle, so I am available to handle
the necessities around here. Maid, Gardener, chief cook and
bottlewasher, laundry, etc.
I can handle all of this much easier than Debi can! Not bragging, my
late wife was completely disabled the last 5 years of her life, but
could not do much prior to that either.

So, we moved into a single room in her mom and dads house, leaving
everything in storage until we can get a place of our own.
However, with her dad gone first, I had to step into his shoes so to
speak and take care of this place first. Because of his age, much
needed maintenance had fallen by the wayside.
I guess at 80+ years old, the fact something will only last another 5
or 10 years if it isn't fixed, don't mean a whole lot anymore, and
there are more important things to worry about.
The woods kept getting larger and the backyard smaller! Hey, less to
mow and trim! I don't blame him one bit!
Most of the bushes went untrimmed and got very large. Many were
filled with weeds and even small trees had come up and grown quite
large within the bushes. I know he just didn't have the energy to
keep up with it all, not knowing the modern techniques of doing
things.
Even before Debi and I were married, I trimmed up everything, removed
the unwanted wild trees and mulched heavily. A simple squirt of
RoundUp every couple of weeks would keep everything in shape.
But the oldsters only know about pulling weeds by hand and tossing on
more mulch. So by the time we were back here, everything looked
almost as it did before.
I cleaned everything up again and now it only takes a few minutes per
week to keep the weeds at bay using products like RoundUp.
Then I started attacking the other maintenance chores that are ongoing
and forever, hi hi.....

As they say, Hindsight is 20/20!
If I knew in advance how things were going to turn out, I would have
packed things a whole lot differently.
Boxes marked living room, den, kitchen, hall, etc. have no meaning
when you don't have any of those places to put things yet.
Plus, things were not packed with temperature control and long storage
in mind. So any box that has anything in it that might be subject to
heat or cold exposure is in climate controlled storage, very expensive
when a box may be mostly towels or flatware, just because there is a
radio or clock or expensive figurine in the same box.

I did sit up last night until about 2AM stitching on the Old Mill, I
have found everything I need to get back to work on that project and
made a special place by my bedstead for it.

TTUL
Gary