The Move Is On

The weather here has been awful!  Yesterday the temperature was 103 degrees and muggy.  But, there is better weather in sight.  The mountains are closer than ever.

We now have a contract to sell our house here.  It will be closing within the next two weeks.  We also have a contract to purchase a house in the mountains.  It will close shortly after the one here closes.  So, we are into packing and moving hot and heavy.  Today will probably be my last day at work for awhile.  My priorities are to get us moved out of here and get the house in the mountains closed and ready for habitation.  Then, of course, will come the move of our stuff.

Mrs. Mann will continue at her present place of employment.  The conditions there have deteriorated even more than they were already!  It is really unbelievable just how stupid people with advanced college degrees can be.  More on that later.

By September 1, I will probably be in the mountains, even if only temporarily.  I plan to go there a few days before the closing to get utilities transferred, etc.  Then, after the transfer of ownership, there will be many things to do before an actual move takes place.  There will be appliances to buy and install, blinds to buy and install, and numerouse little cleaning jobs to be done before habitation can take place.

For informational purposes, the new house is located within a mile of the foot of the mountains.  From the back deck, one has an unobstructed view of Green Mountain!  And, in the late afternoon, the house shades the deck making sitting there very pleasant.  The house is slightly smaller than the one we presently live in, but still 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.  It is new construction, being completed in May of this year.  It sits on a half acre lot along a country road about 8 or 9 miles out of town.  There is another recently occupied house on one side and a horse pasture with two horses on the other side.  A farmer’s hay field adjoins us in the back.  When we were there recently for about 15 minutes in the middle of the morning, we never even heard the sound of a car anywhere in hearing distance.  Just the sounds of birds singing, bees buzzing, and the occasional barking of a dog or lowing of a cow!   Sweet!

Activity has seriously picked up around here!

So much has happened in the last week that is of such significance in my and my family’s lives. The move to the mountains is in full swing! And moving much faster than I would have imagined just a couple months ago.

Just a few minutes ago, we signed an agreement to sell our house! We will be closing on it and moving out within a month, probably much sooner. For the time being, we will be moving in with Mrs. Mann’s mother and putting our furnishings in storage. The storage unit was rented today and is already collecting boxes. We plan to be working all day tomorrow on storing things that are not used in our daily activities. This house is already beginning to look like a train wreck.

On Tuesday, we will be heading back to the mountains to do more house searching. Hopefully, now that we have a contract on our present residence, we will be able to expand our searching to homes a little further up the food chain than we had previously considered. That should bring many more possibles into the list to be examined. It is really an exciting time.

For those of you that like to visit on holidays, you had better make plans to have a mountain in the background for any visits around the holidays this year! Don’t that sound grand? Hehehehehe…

Anyway, lots going on. I’ll try to do a better job of letting ya’ll know what is happening. I promise pics when we get something.