The Countdown Begins

Well today was John's last day at his current job. It was a little bittersweet for him as I know it will be for me when the time comes. You put your heart and soul into your job, become friends with some and even better friends with others and having to say good-bye brings about mixed feelings.

Now John's job will really begin. Because the weather is not cooperating with our plans for landscaping and outside work, he is having to, as they used to say, "make hay while the sun shines". This weekend is supposed to be in the 60's which is much welcomed after the stretches of bitter cold we have had. Of course then it is supposed to snow again on Tuesday so the weekend will find John hitting it hard and heavy outside. Most of what he is doing are the things I can't do after he has left for Arizona. My main focus will be on the inside, but there will be some outside work that will still need to be done too. If the weather does what it says it's going to do on Sunday, we'll be working on painting and other things inside.

The outside work will consist of cleaning out flowerbeds of last fall's plants, putting down red bark and hopefully before I leave, planting some nice colorful flowers. We also have a composte pile that we will use in some of the flowerbeds and that will make the back look a little nicer.

The company John will be working for agreed to pay for whichever mover we wanted so we chose United Van Lines. They were the company that moved us from Arizona to Utah in 2001 so we are familiar with their work. We negotiated a little and they came down in their price by $450. As of today they will be coming to pack and load on March 26 & 27 and they will deliver our stuff to Arizona between April 1st and 3rd. I know by then John will be happy to have a real bed to sleep in.

I will post a picture of our finished outside work when it is done. I am excited to see what it looks like. It always seems like you never get the things you want to get done, done until you are ready to sell a house.....I wonder why that is.

Thursday, February 14

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.

Well we got the 3rd and final estimate from the moving companies on what it was going to cost to move. Prices have changed alot in 7 years. Of course figuring that gas prices have increased and the distance we are moving is further, it is no wonder. Now the ball is in the new company's court. Since they are paying for it we will let them decide.

Hope everyone is having a great Valentine's Day and doing something extra special for that special someone in your life. Make every day with them count because life is too short not to.

Not again

In January of 2007, Springfield, Missouri had the worst icestorm they've had in 25 years. People were out of power anywhere from a few hours to 3 weeks. We personally were out of power for 8 days. We lost trees and a freezer full of food including our extra holiday turkey. If we had known we were going to be out of power for so long we would have moved everything outside where it was below freezing.

I had just gotten out of the hospital from having surgery and with no power at the office it gave me a chance to recouperate more than just a weekend.

Well now a little over a year later we are having another icestorm. This one doesn't look like it's going to be as bad, however as of last night's news about 5,000 households were without power. Not nearly as bad compared to last year where it was about 75,000.

This storm makes us extremely glad for the opportunity to move back to where it's warm and the worse thing you have to deal with there are the monsoons.