13 April 2011 - Preparing to leave our home for about five years

Flowers from our wonderful friend Chez

It’s incredible how the build-up of material possessions over 48 years takes so much time to sort.  Particularly when you have had a large house, garage and huge shed to store it all and the kids moved out years ago.  We are almost to the stage when we don’t want to set an ETD (Estimated time of Departure) as new  jobs keep popping up.

Our lounge, dining table, recliner chairs and lots of other assorted items have gone off to the op shop.  Oh yes, also the two spare room beds.  So Ian and I now live in one room plus the yacht!

We moved out to the windChalmer for two days and one night last week – emptied all the lockers.  Then sorted and filled them again, writing down in our book what is stored so we can find it quickly.  Once out on the yacht, I am going to key this into the laptop, so we can do a quick search and find.  We actually have lockers without stuff at the moment.  

We brought back to shore anything we didn’t need  as we don’t want to clutter the yacht.  

We have built the fence around our backyard with two gates for Kent and Kristin’s children, dog, cats and chooks!  Today I am the apprentice base mixer while Ian is gyprocking a section between Kent and Kristin’s cottage kitchen and family room.  Whoever built this had such a small space between the rooms – so we cut them out, inserted a large metal beam and opened up the kitchen.  Looks great now, just getting the gyprocking finished, also packing firewood into the trailer and cleaning.

Between all this I have been baby sitting and keeping up with other family commitments.  

Ian has about two days of things to make before we go, then we can really get sorted. Oh yes and we can't go yet as our lovely granddaughter Ameeka Mae turns 4 next week.

So this is retirement!