NoTurning Back Now!

5-20-13 This is what Tom said last night as we moved into our temporary home - the spare bedroom of our good friend's house.

Tom's bag for the week in our temp room

Yesterday morning we took the last load to storage of the few personal items we are keeping.  Ok, by few I mean several rubbermaid containers and such but this is actually only the second load so we feel like we have done pretty good at purging the stuff of our lives.  It only took 10 mins to haul from the cars to the attic (of one of our rental houses) so not bad!  The couple that will be renting our house arrived yesterday afternoon just as promised from a long road trip with their car packed to the roof with most their worldly possessions.   Their excellent car packing skills give us hope for the near day when we have to pack all of our remaining worldly items into the Murano and head for s/v Honey Ryder.  I use the term renters but actually these are friends so we were SO excited to see/meet them yesterday.  We spent the afternoon chatting and getting them oriented to the house.  They have never been to our house.  In fact we have have never meant in personal until yesterday but have been email pen-pals (is that term still used?) for many years.  Kansas weather generated a big Welcome to Kansas in the form of thunderstorms and tornado warnings.  Fortunately, we only had strong winds and rain with dinner.  Oklahoma wasn't as luckly and our hearts are heavy for them.

My bags for the week

Tom still has many items to do to wrap up his business so we gathered up a duffle bag each, our backpacks, laptops, and various files and headed to our temporarily home around 9:30 pm last night.
The last load of  items for donation will be dropped off tomorrow.  Yep, no turning back now but then we wouldn't want to - it's time to get going towards s/v Honey Ryder.