I keep losing days

Pack, pack and more pack.  That's the mantra that we are following these days.  It has been windy, dust swirling everywhere, the packing boxes outside are full of gritty stuff once we haul them inside, and our shed is quickly filling up with packed boxes waiting for moving day.

And we are taking things off the walls to move to the next house.  And painting the holes that we leave behind when we remove the decorations.  Hmmmm.

Transfer of funds went smoothly, as did paperwork here at our park to transfer the new place into our names.  Park is emptying out as the snowbirds go north, but there was concern recently when we all heard that the mountain passes like the Siskyous were snowy that day.  Hmmmm.

Nanaimo weather was holding this week at 8 degrees, and overcast or rainy, and here we are in the 70s and 80s. More hmmmm.  And soon to be 90s....

Not much interesting to tell about packing, just to survive it and come out smiling after it's all over with.  Distant move or short move, it's almost the same thing really, stuff out, clean, stuff in at new place.  End of discussion.

 Here is the handsome fellow

Lary has been carving furiously trying to get it done, and now the blue jay is sealed, and ready for painting, which won't happen til we get home I guess.  He doesn't have legs yet, but his eyes make him much more realistic, as does the woodburning on the feathers.  Big project.

Had a nice swim a day or so ago, unusually for our park the ladies chatted in one group together, and the men chatted in their group together in the pool, it was odd.  Normally we all mix together. Today the pool was closed for the day so that the bottom of the wall enclosing the pool could be tiled, it had become discolored, and didn't look nice any more, and tiling from the ground up about a foot seemed a good solution to the problem.

So far in a day they completed 3 walls of the 4 to be done, and also did the walls in the covered area where the hot tubs are located.  Will be nice when it's finished.  Don't know if it will be shut again tomorrow.

We are trying to think ahead to if we manage to sell the current unit, or have to rent it out.  The sales down here in our park are often "turnkey" which means you bring your suitcase and can basically live in the unit, it's furnished right down to dishes, cutlery, sheets, towels, pots, pans, TV and furniture of course.  So that is what we are coping with, decision making about what to take with us, (the new stuff we have acquired), and what to leave behind, (the basics that we inherited when we moved in).

Of course we have changed all living room furniture, bought a new bed, new TV, had the painting done all throughout the inside, even the ceilings, changed the drapes to verticals, and for that we get to list it for nearly the same price we bought it at, 3 years ago.   Hmmmmmm......

Win some, lose some.  We'd like it to get sold, but there is steep competition here in our park and elsewhere too, and part of me wishes we keep it to rent to family and friends so they could come and visit and enjoy our nice park and area in the sun zone down here.  Realistically we have to shoulder the costs of maintaining 2 houses, paying the monthly costs, and the other blah blahs.

We'll see what the passage of time brings us.  Meanwhile pack pack pack, and my thoughts are turning to friends and family at home, not long now til we hit the road ourselves.

Hope you enjoy the bird photos taken today, with the bird carving how to book in the background of the photo.

Palo Verde tree bursting into bloom in the Walmart parking lot a couple of days ago.