Moving Day!

Welcome to December, folks!! Hasn't it been lovely!

I had fun while on my latest trip. On one of the days I babysat. I was home alone with a 16 month old, with no vehicle, and looked out their back door to see this....

A quick call to 911 and I found out the fire department was doing a controlled burn in the national park right next door. I told that gal that I was alone with a baby, and on foot besides. If that fire got out of control I wanted her to come get me and that baby out of the fishing pond before we got pneumonia! She giggled and promised we were in no danger. Even the little calves were bunching up as far from that fire as possible! I was sure glad when the smoke cleared. I could just see fire marching across that dry pasture and knocking at my door.

Moving day arrived too soon. I arrived home this morning at 9am and started loading my little car. People, I guarantee I can stuff a car plumb full! Believe it or not, I had already unloaded a bunch of it before I remembered the camera! 

Then the elves and pixies showed up!

That's my son, Garrett, hiding behind the truck. My daughter, Misty,  is at the gate. We have entirely too much fun, don't we? Those kids had the rest of my stuff loaded, transported and unloaded in one trip, too! Giggles abounded when they were trying to get the full sized mattress into the van. My grandson, Mikey, got plowed backward and then trapped between the seats in there, but he escaped with very little injury. Getting that mattress back out of the van was even more fun. hehe

Once the vehicles were unloaded Misty left for a meeting. Garrett and Mikey moved that last tree for me, so I now have my tree-lined driveway. It is just as I imagined it. 

Once he had done his Paul Bunyan imitation with the logs, Garrett left to take his family to have their pictures taken with Santa. 

Mikey hung in there though. He declared he had to clean to make sure I was living in a clean house. What a fella! The microwave oven I brought out is on it's last leg, rusting out on the inside, etc. Hey, a gal has to make due at times, and right now I still haven't any cookware to speak of, so at least can nuke that food. Mikey scrubbed that thing clean, too. Kin to his Toobie, for sure!

Meanwhile, I unpacked boxes and sorted things until time to take him back to his mama. Once I had delivered him and gone by the grocer's for some supper (and breakfast), I headed HOME. Wow, I am really in my own place again. It's been awhile, I won't lie to you. You know what I did first once I got the groceries put away, don't you? That's right, I took a big ol' bubble bath in that beautiful claw-footed bathtub! Lots and lots of hot water to soak the sore muscles and clear the mind, that's the prescription for the evening! 

And now, if you will indulge me, I know my mama will want to know how things look today, so let me attach photos....these are for you, Mother. And then I am going to bed! 'Night, y'all!

"My room"

(Notice the heating pad is already warming up for me!)

The 'office', 

And last, but never least, the kitchen...