26th May 2019
Move out, clean up day 3
Kelli had her list for clearing the house, and I continued to work through the crap in the garage.
Halfway through the morning Kelli had the brainwave to put stuff at the side of the road, and tell everybody about it on Facebook. When something is free in Holland its like shouting “Gold!” Cars and SUV’s came from nowhere. They blocked the road in their enthusiasm to pick something up for nothing. We couldn’t put things down fast enough, people were taking it from my hands as I was carrying it down the drive.
There were books, toys, old windows? (Yes people keep old windows here) and small items of furniture. I cleaned off the old table that I had been using as a bench, and that went almost immediately. I would look at Kelli with disbelief, and she would smile knowingly.
We certainly got rid of a lot of stuff, even a small tv, so success.
As darkness fell, fireworks exploded around us. Because it was Memorial weekend it has become common to let off loud fireworks. We were sitting by the fire watching the bats fly above. I decided that it would be a good time to burn the model I had made of her parent’s house when we were thinking of adding an extra floor. It seemed, at the time, to be the best option for having a home of our own, but in retrospect what we have now was the best thing that had happened.
The model was destroyed in a matter of minutes, but the sadness of the burning was lightened by a nice glass of red.
Another Lifetime to go 