After the weekend

The furniture is all here. Some of the boxes are unpacked. If I said it was half-finished, I'd be optimistic--but we are getting there. I swear that yesterday, every time I unpacked one box, another two appeared. Like cutting the head off the hydra.

After rumouring that they would deliver Saturday evening. or then Sunday morning, the guys and truck finally arrived just before lunchtime on Sunday. Then it took all afternoon to unload, because they had to make two trips to the U-Haul place where they'd left the 18-wheeler. The streets here wouldn't cope with a big-rig--they had enough trouble with the U-haul box truck! Most of the boxes and furniture had to come upstairs, as that's the main part of the house. The ironing board however I wanted to be downstairs. I never use the darn thing. Don't know why I packed it. But the kind movers kept being helpful and bringing it upstairs. I think it went up and down about six times.

They did a good job--so far only found one glass broken and one picture frame and one vase. Nothing major. Considering it's all been from Sacramento to storage in Los Angeles and then cross-country to Long Island, it's not bad.

I now have an office with a desk, a home phone, somewhere to sleep and to eat. The kitchen is empty of boxes but there's a lot to be put away still. The living room is a total mess. It's not helped by having to keep a large part of the floor empty of furniture so that the contractors can see what they are bidding on for moving the staircase. And that is another one of the jobs where they come in, take a look at it, then put on a puzzled expression and scratch their heads and then go away to "think about it".... watch this space for more news :-)