Progress, Yes or No?

It’s been a busy while and I haven’t posted anything recently.  The estate sale went well.  A lot of stuff was sold, and most of the residue carted off to either a donation center, or the local land fill.  But, there are still a zillion little bits and pieces to be dealt with.  Not to complain too much, but I’ve also developed some pretty severe leg pain and associated back pain.  That has slowed me down and sapped a bunch of energy.

Right now, the house is empty, and I’m living in temporary guest quarters in a garage apartment.My wife is off in the RV with our daughter who is finishing up a professional degree and just had her first child (beautiful baby boy).  Gandparents are working as infant care assistants while daughter goes to school.  Her husband’s work keeps him out of town much of the time so they are all stressed beyond the normal level for new parents.  But that is going well.  The down side is I’m here trying to finish up the odds and ends around getting the downsizing completed.

We’ve certainly reduced the amount of material things substantially over the last two to three months, but what is left is getting harder to consolidate, sort, sift, disposal of, and otherwise deal with.  The real forcing function will come when we sell the house and I absolutely must get everything either into storage, or into the RV, or out of our lives.

Today, I’m off to WalMart to get some more storage containers that they sell that work great in RV under storage areas.  I’ll see what I can accomplish with getting everything I need to (or is it want to?) keep organized into the volume I’ll have available.  Wish me luck!!

Somewhere in Texas

April 26, 2015