May 2
What a long day!
7:45:
It started out by realizing that I forgot all the
information that I've been writing down about the move at
work. Oh well, no problem, I think I remember everything.
Now, where was that U-haul place again?
8:15:
After using the phone book, and driving around the
area I thought the U-haul rental was out, I called and found
out that the rental place was just down the street from the
new house. Oops...
8:45:
Friends start showing up and help us empty the place
of all its contents.
1:00:
Done with two loads, and everything large has been
moved. Wow! That went fast! Jill and Jenny run out to get
Pizza for everyone. The Pizza cost the same amount as the
truck.
2:00:
Went back to the house to pick up a few small things
and the dog. Then, the first crisis at the new house!
First of all, I forgot to say that we took the cats over to
the new house first thing in the morning, and Jill locked
them in the bathroom, so they can get adjusted to the new
house, and be out of our way. Well, the brain surgeon that
designed our house decided to put drawers on
the bathroom basin all the way to the door, and the door
opens inward. So, if the drawer is out, you can only open
the door about one inch. No big deal, right? Well, what if
you have cats that freak out when they move, and want to
find someplace to hide? Well, put 1 and 1 together, and the
impossible happens. The cat not only opened the bottom
drawer, but she opened the second to the bottom drawer,
crawled into the bottome one, and since the one above her
was open, she jumped in *BEHIND* the bottom drawer, jarring
it open.
Ok, so now we have two cats in the bathroom, one wants to go
out and explore the rest of the house, and the other one
won't move to save her life. The door is blocked closed,
and the only way into the bathroom is through a very very
(very) small rectangular window. Of course, the bathroom is
on the second story, and the window is near the roof. I'm a
new homeowner, and already I'm calculating how much the door
is worth (vs. how much the cat is worth :-) We decide to
get the ladder out, and see what we can do. The ladder
reaches up most of the way to the window and John decides to
climb up (because he is tallest) and check out the
situation. He makes it up there, and finds out that indeed,
he can only see one cat. Somehow, we need to coax the other
cat out. I run inside to get my 25 foot tape measure,
thinking that he could somehow extend it out, and "poke" the
cat to make her move (hey, I'm a dog person! Sounds like it
might work to me!) Anyway, I run in, get the tape, and when
I come back outside, there is nobody there.... huh? Well,
it turns out that somehow, John decided to crawl through the
window (and I mean it is a small window, with about 7 feet
to the shower floor) wedge his way in so he doesn't fall
face first into the bathtub (I'm still not sure how he did
that) and go into the bathroom to let the cat out.
Big Cheer for John!!
visit his Website and
see pics of his cats.
5:00:
Time to go to Sherman's house for a party!
8:00:
Jill asks me about some strange pages that she just
saw on her pager. I didn't recognize the number. We have
her pager number on our answering machine, just in case...
Well, I call the old house, because it has the answering
machine still, and get a message that our dog, Jasper, got
out of the new yard, and is walking around on the street.
YIKES!!! Well, we call the number, and it is our new
neighbors. Jasper still has his old tag on, so they thought
that he has been wandering for miles and miles, and somehow
ended up there. We explain who we are, and will be there
soon. We leave, and pick up Jasper, who had dug his way out
under the front gate. Grrrr....
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Sometime that night, we get to sleep.