After a week of screeching tape dispensers, sorting, discarding, discovering treasures, paper & bubble wrapping, boxing, labeling and stacking, we're DONE. Gary's packing helper never showed, and so we prevailed upon Allied to send a crew of 3 to our rescue. After an 8 hour day with no breaks - 5 of us packing away - we got 90% of it done.
At 8:00am sharp, our movers arrived: Dave and Lorrie. They're a young, Vancouver married couple who made quite a team. Moving households is clearly in their blood as evidenced by their tireless work and bedroom-sized sleeper on their tractor wrig. They had a standing crew in Houston that was perhaps the best crew of packers and loaders I've seen.
Throughout, Gary and I built boxes, wrapped, and packed until the very, very end. The last item out was our vaccuum cleaner. An hour from the end, as I packed, Gary vaccuumed. It was another full day - 11 hours this time; from 7:30am until 6:30pm. We loaded the car and checked into our hotel room at 7:30, and will be back to the house again at 7:30am to put the trash out - about HALF of what we have to throw away. Gary's arranged for a guy to clean out the garage next week, under the supervision of our property manager.
In short, we're happily exhausted. Tomorrow it's washing & charging the pool filter, cleaning the hardwoods, taking George to the groomers (and to get a veterinarian certificate). Then Sunday - ON THE ROAD!!
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