Eating Off the Land

We've spent two days packing up the kitchen - brutally tossing things that aren't worth moving.  Eating what we have so we hopefully won't have to worry about refrigeration for a week.  I don't know what we were thinking or why when we asked for the refrigerator to be delivered on the 8th?  But that's what we did and J. tried to change it and there are no earlier delivery dates available so...we might need to use plastic tubs with dry ice to keep condiments and stuff cold.  And it's already pretty cold up there anyway so that will help.  We have at least one ice chest in storage somewhere but no idea where and we don't see it in either unit - so it's buried.  Guess we could buy a new one.  We'll see what's left when we're doing a final pack up on the 4th. 

Dinner was cornbread made with some Jiffy mixes that were a smidge past their 'best date' and two cans of Hormel chili.  We'll be eating weird things the next week or so and then calling H.'s friend K. to come over with his wife and take what's left in the freezer.  We've really cleaned out a lot so we aren't wasting much. 

We don't have motel reservations for the 4th here in town either, yet - we need to do that.  We could sleep on the floor in the house but...that will lead to not great sleep and sore bodies and the next day, we'll be driving 4+ hours with two cats who will be not at all happy about the drive. 

I just chatted on Facebook with a friend that I'd really hoped to see again before the move - but that isn't going to happen.  Luckily, she lives in Elk Grove and we can easily meet up once we're both settled - she's moving into a brand new house in the Spring, too! 

It's down to the wire on number of days left here and while it's been 16 months of planning, it's all come down to this last mad dash week we have ahead of us. 

We'd told H. we would get him a TV - but getting it shipped seemed silly.  He found the same TV we found at Costco for $10 more at Walmart so he bought it - I sent him a check to put back in his bank account.  Having that allows him to watch Netflix, set up his PlayStation and have something to do.  Better to keep him busy, I think.

We head up to Nevada tomorrow - last round trip up and back until we start doing that to visit friends here in Tracy and Livermore. 

The new owners are coming over next Friday evening (8PM! - the Friday commute from Hayward will be awful so that's why it's so late) to get info on appliances, thermostats, pool equipment, etc..  They also wanted help with utilities - we've already provided both water/sewer/trash and PG&E with our stop date so I replied they just need to contact the City of Tracy and PG&E to get things set up in their name.  I'm fine with helping them but....we've got lots to do - not wanting to spend hours walking them through everything.  We have all manuals, etc. ready to leave for them.  They'll have to figure it out -

It's just after 5:30PM but it feels much later - we've worked pretty hard today and we're beat.