Maggie's in the driver's seat. I probably should have cleared the dashboard before taking the picture.
This pic oughta take you to the whole set of pix from the road trip out to California of July 26-29, 2011.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
All packed up and ready to leave.
Maggie's in the driver's seat. I probably should have cleared the dashboard before taking the picture.
This pic oughta take you to the whole set of pix from the road trip out to California of July 26-29, 2011.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Garage sale day!
I picked Friday and Saturday instead of Saturday and Sunday as the pair of days on which to hold my garage sale. I don't know whether that was the wisest choice, but it's one I'm going to live with. I opened the garage door right at nine, put the sign out front, and spent the next three hours alphabetizing the paperback fiction by author. No customers yet.
It's a really unprepossessing garage sale, to look at it. The floor is almost clean of stock: I just don't have enough stuff to sell to fill up the garage impressively. There are shelving units of different types all around the walls of the garage, most which are carrying the many, many books I've decided to put on offer. One of the shelving units is carrying a lot of the kitchen glassware and the baseball gear; the rest of the kitchen stuff is on the two end tables. My laptop (which is not for sale) and a 17" CRT monitor (which is) is on the student desk ($25). There are a few odds and ends: the reel lawn mower Frank gave me when I bought this house, my Mosquito Magnet, some jack stands and wheel ramps, and a kite. The office-reception-room-style chairs and a couple of lawn-furniture-type chairs are all that takes up the room away from the walls. The Aiwa stereo unit is tuned to sports talk, where the happy news (Jim Hendry was fired by the Cubs today) is being dissected. The weather is comfortable and I'm generally content despite the failure to dispose of any of the mass I'd hoped to lose before final packing.
It's a really unprepossessing garage sale, to look at it. The floor is almost clean of stock: I just don't have enough stuff to sell to fill up the garage impressively. There are shelving units of different types all around the walls of the garage, most which are carrying the many, many books I've decided to put on offer. One of the shelving units is carrying a lot of the kitchen glassware and the baseball gear; the rest of the kitchen stuff is on the two end tables. My laptop (which is not for sale) and a 17" CRT monitor (which is) is on the student desk ($25). There are a few odds and ends: the reel lawn mower Frank gave me when I bought this house, my Mosquito Magnet, some jack stands and wheel ramps, and a kite. The office-reception-room-style chairs and a couple of lawn-furniture-type chairs are all that takes up the room away from the walls. The Aiwa stereo unit is tuned to sports talk, where the happy news (Jim Hendry was fired by the Cubs today) is being dissected. The weather is comfortable and I'm generally content despite the failure to dispose of any of the mass I'd hoped to lose before final packing.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Day Two
Neither Day One nor Day Two went as planned. So what else is new? We aborted our plan to leave the house on Day One because 5:00 p.m. rolled along and we just weren't ready to go. We did get out of the house yesterday at about 4:45 p.m. and ran straight into rush-hour traffic on the outbound Stevenson. It took us almost two hours to get to the Joliet area, but sailing was smooth after that and we ended up spending the night in Warrenton, MO.
Notable sights included: a guy poking a huge snapping turtle with his umbrella on the shoulder of the Stevenson, two different crop dusters flying their aerobatics a few feet from the roofs of the cars on the Interstate, and a bird committing suicide by means of our car.
The dogs are being their usual charming selves. Sadly, I'm not able to provide them with enough floor space in the Acadia for Maggie to be comfortable all the time, so she's pretty fidgety, but I'm able to tune that out. It sure meant they slept very soundly last night. They got me up at 8, meaning only about 6 hours of sleep, but at least I didn't sleep through the "free" "Continental" breakfast. The breakfast featured a badass pancake machine like the one pictured here (http://www.gearculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/chefstack-pancake-machine.jpg), but I missed the waffle maker: I can make my own pancakes at home.
Notable sights included: a guy poking a huge snapping turtle with his umbrella on the shoulder of the Stevenson, two different crop dusters flying their aerobatics a few feet from the roofs of the cars on the Interstate, and a bird committing suicide by means of our car.
The dogs are being their usual charming selves. Sadly, I'm not able to provide them with enough floor space in the Acadia for Maggie to be comfortable all the time, so she's pretty fidgety, but I'm able to tune that out. It sure meant they slept very soundly last night. They got me up at 8, meaning only about 6 hours of sleep, but at least I didn't sleep through the "free" "Continental" breakfast. The breakfast featured a badass pancake machine like the one pictured here (http://www.gearculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/chefstack-pancake-machine.jpg), but I missed the waffle maker: I can make my own pancakes at home.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Day Zero
I thought this might be a workable way to let a maximum number of people know how the move's going.
I took a couple of CTA buses down to Midway to pick up the SUV. On the phone, I'd been told I was going to be renting an Explorer, but when I got there, it turned out to be a GMC Acadia. The thing looks huge in the garage, but I guess that's just a matter of perspective. The cargo area is disappointingly small, and I'm going to have to be clever about packing. There's the stuff we're going to need on a daily basis during the car trip, plus the stuff Carole and the dogs are going to need after I've come back to Berwyn, plus my own stuff, and I've already had to work on paring back some of the stuff I'd planned to bring: for example, I'm going to have to bring less of Carole's clothes than I'd originally intended. Now I have to scout around for a smaller container in which to transport the dog food. We're probably going to have to make do with bringing only one cooler, too.
I took a couple of CTA buses down to Midway to pick up the SUV. On the phone, I'd been told I was going to be renting an Explorer, but when I got there, it turned out to be a GMC Acadia. The thing looks huge in the garage, but I guess that's just a matter of perspective. The cargo area is disappointingly small, and I'm going to have to be clever about packing. There's the stuff we're going to need on a daily basis during the car trip, plus the stuff Carole and the dogs are going to need after I've come back to Berwyn, plus my own stuff, and I've already had to work on paring back some of the stuff I'd planned to bring: for example, I'm going to have to bring less of Carole's clothes than I'd originally intended. Now I have to scout around for a smaller container in which to transport the dog food. We're probably going to have to make do with bringing only one cooler, too.
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