Our Big Move

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I think it's been a couple of weeks since I last checked in here but, we did pack it all up and carry it 2400 miles - and now to set it all back up

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During our loading and boxing we were rained on for 5.5 days straight, it hadn't rained for the previous month and a half! So I got soaked on a daily basis. Did all I could to protect the merchandise which slowed my progress to a crawl at times. Not to mention that some of the people helping disappeared. And those delays forced me to extend our rental agreements which adds costs. But we made it to the new house and began the unloading process.  AKA put 5 pounds of stuff in to the 4 pound box .  I'll try to snap a pic or two later today and share.

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And today was the typical searching for.. anything that you need but, on a weekly basis and while you scour boxes again and again hoping to find that specific box with the one item that you or the wife desire.. but you find something that you forgot you even owned! LOL .   ,so the search continues.  I really need to find an ISP, doing everything on a new phone 😔 sucks 😞

[Piggiron]

I'm there with you. Can't seem to find anything when you need it.

[TerryWerm]

Doing emails and other internet activities on the phone does suck. I absolutely despise having to do emails on the phone while I am out of town for work, but I cannot justify the expense of a new laptop right now. Other web stuff isn't so bad, but for some reason doing emails is a big pain in the posterior. 

I also feel your pain looking for certain things. You KNOW you have it, you KNOW you packed it in a box, but you CANNOT find it anywhere. Very frustrating. We haven't moved in 35 years now, but I still remember that experience!

Good luck in your new home!

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Thanks Terry.  I did get an ISP but they gave me a CABLE MODEM... 
Only my oldest (slowest) computer will connect to it. so the experience is just awful!  I'll try and load a couple / few pics from the weeks prior.  Don't know if this old computer can load'em up but we'll try.  My garage/now workshop will probably 50% of out "stuff" in it. 

HMmm... been too long and I forgot how to load pics here.  Maybe try again later.

[chips and more]

I moved about 25 years ago and still have un-opened boxes from the move! I'll get around to it one of these days...NOT.

[TerryWerm]

Thanks Terry.  I did get an ISP but they gave me a CABLE MODEM... 
Only my oldest (slowest) computer will connect to it. so the experience is just awful!  I'll try and load a couple / few pics from the weeks prior.  Don't know if this old computer can load'em up but we'll try.  My garage/now workshop will probably 50% of out "stuff" in it.

HMmm... been too long and I forgot how to load pics here.  Maybe try again later.

I will post instructions for adding pics in the "How To" section. They should be there in just a little bit. I will post a link here once it is up.

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Thanks Terry.  I did get an ISP but they gave me a CABLE MODEM... 

HMmm... been too long and I forgot how to load pics here.  Maybe try again later.

I will post instructions for adding pics in the "How To" section. They should be there in just a little bit. I will post a link here once it is up.

As always THANKS TERRY! For all you do..

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practice posting a pic..   cactus flower near us

[4GSR]

My grandmother used to collect different species of cactus down in south Texas back in the 1950's-1960's.  At one time she had over 150 different ones. People found out about her cactus collection and they started disappearing. The freezes every winter took them out, too. 

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I think that's amazing,  150 cactus ( I'd say 100 plus plants is amazing!) 

We had transplanted 2 tiny pieces of prickly pear cactus to the side yard 24 years ago.  They had gotten huge and over the summer 1 is looking poorly but the other has fruit and looks in good shape.  A local friend harvests the fruit and makes a jam/jelly with it.  It tastes okay - not a favorite of mine. 

The wife and I are still "moving in"..  lol.  our 12 foot trailer has become a portable storage container.  We are still going through boxes and finding things we need/want and re-boxing those we don't need/want right now.  I moved the lathe and mills into a position that I think works out okay.  And there is now more room since putting up the shelving and filling those shelves!  Every day or so I get into the "shop" and try to sort out an area.  Today I took down a small "structure" in the yard behind the garage. It was rotten and before it fell on the dogs or the wife I pushed it over.  Will cut it up and haul it off soon.  Also put up a hanger system in the garage for the yard tools, get the shovels and such off the floor.  I took pics and will have to get them up here.

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AND...  I / We are still at "it".  Open a box and find a home for those contents. But, we've been running out of space, this house is so much smaller than the last, no in listed square footage, but the fact this is a slab house.  No basements out here so we lost all that storage area and my shop space is no more also... squeezing it all into this place has become quite a challenge. We've bought several shelving units and raised some storage space sq.ft. that way.  I've moved equipment multiple times trying different layouts and I am still not happy, but we keep trying.  It's kinda amazing how many things we can't find yet.  Things like the bathroom scale, we have zero idea of where it may be! LOL..  it has to be in a box somewhere.. but I swear we've gone through all the boxes.  But I keep wondering what else I am missing.  Working in the shop yesterday I was moving things on the shelvings and stumbled across a small box full of lathe tools & tooling,  now I realize I'll need another wall mounted shelf behind the lathe to store all these things! Here we go again! LOL  

[TerryWerm]

If you don't mind my asking, approximately where in NM did you move to? I get out that way every few years since I have family in western Colorado and in Albuquerque. Don't tell us if you don't want to - it's just a curiosity thing anyway.

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If you don't mind my asking, approximately where in NM did you move to? I get out that way every few years since I have family in western Colorado and in Albuquerque. Don't tell us if you don't want to - it's just a curiosity thing anyway.

No worries Terry.  We moved to Alamogordo New Mexico.  That's about 3 hours south of ABQ...   The White Sands are some 16 miles from my driveway.