24th May 2019
Move out, clean-up day 1
Although Kelli had moved out most of the essentials, there were still furniture and things that needed to be shifted. The basement is still full of Cameron’s stuff that needs to go, also a piano that somehow has to get carried up the basement stairs. This is the task that is the most difficult.
Kelli concentrated on clearing Greer’s room, as she is still sick in bed.
I ventured into the garage to tackle the piles of pallet wood that I have accumulated. It is time for a clean sweep, so I piled it up in the middle of the garage ready to take it over to the new place so that I could cut it up for firewood.
This has been evening ritual for the past few days, burning off-cuts and carpet sticks. Now I have a serious pile of wood to burn.
There was also five old tv’s and old audio units to dispose of. Over here it is incredibly hard to find anywhere that will take them, and those that do, charge $25 each to take them.
The whole recycling system here is a joke. The rubbish collectors actively take bags of recycling materials but anything else is really hard, so fly tipping is often the only answer.
We finished the day with most of the things ticked off, with another eight days to go, there is no room for slackers.
There is another berm house further up the road, so Kelli decided to go and introduce ourselves to the owners.
The first thing I noticed was they appeared to be sitting on a sofa in their garage. Maybe they didn’t like their home, and have always lived in a garage?
They explained their experiences of flooding and cockroaches. That put the shits up me for a start. Our surveyor had noted how dry our crawl space was, and we live closer to the lake, so hopefully the roaches had invaded someone else’s homestead.
Another Lifetime to go 