Another Move!

Part 1 .... Our planned move from Vista Atenas, Atenas, to Hacienda el Paseo, Grecia is finally complete. We made the almost final move on Saturday, March 31 - which meant we moved our Cat and his litter box to our new house. I borrowed a cat carrier from our neighbours and Cat was very unhappy to be put into it. Cat owners know what that sounds like. It was only about a 45 minute drive from old house to new house but he didn’t like some of the twisty turns and uphill climbs. For the most part, he tolerated the trip very well. 

He disembarked in our bedroom, and promptly went under our bed. We put his litter box, water and food out in the same room and shut the door to give him some peace and quiet. 

We ended up deciding to rent a storage locker for ten days because we didn’t know precisely when we would receive the keys to our new house. This turned out to be a good idea. We used Lion Share Storage Mini-Bodegas, not far from Grecia. Larry and Nancy Rusin are really nice people and very helpful. Having the locker meant we could ferry stuff from our Atenas house to the lockup at our own pace. As it turned out, we received the keys to the Grecia house on March 27th, so then we started taking our stuff there. This included my orchid collection.

Then we cleared out the storage locker. We still had nine of my easels at the Atenas house so we hired Anibal and his friend to pick them up and take them to the Grecia house. Moving them in our SUV would have meant two trips. We don’t own furniture and I thought that we didn’t have much stuff .... wrong. We have a lot of small things, my paintings, small kitchen appliances .... you would be surprised at what ties you down.