Survived the Day
Sep. 15th, 2012 12:00 amLoaded the Big Red Van with some stuff from home for Sunday, and drove to Manchester, collecting folding tables and chairs, and having some moments of self-doubt. Which were allayed by several friends. Thank you.
Survived unloading mostly by myself, but that is to be expected, as my sister I still don't think is entirely bought into this. I did get some help from my elder niece, Madeleine, as she is big enough at 13 to haul stuff. She also did a great job of sorting thru part of a box of picture finding ones of Mum as a baby, and growing up.
I ended up bringing a one box high van full of boxes of papers, and pictures (not sure we'll have any time to go thru them...), and some books, dishes, glass ware and pottery, and the contents of our games drawers from the living room. Someone is moving in October 1, ans Leslie wants it ready Monday morning. The rest of the stuff in the basement can wait til I've gone thru this haul.
My sister is very different from me. I have no spoons at the moment to describe. It's been a rough day. Thank you,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sweetmmeblue and family for feeding me when I stopped by to pick up tables tonight.
We should be climbing the Mountain tomorrow morning. Mum always considered Jaffrey, NH to be home. While she loved the ocean, it was Jaffrey that she thought was home when she had her stroke in 1999, and Mt. Mondanock has always been her favorite. She just loved that mountain. We'll be going up the White Dot trail, and down the White Cross, not Mum's favorite trails; her favorite was Pumpelly Ridge, which starts in Dublin and is much longer, 6 miles up I think, instead of 4 miles round trip the way we are planning. She also like the Spruce Link, and some of the trails which went up the left side of the mountain.
Survived unloading mostly by myself, but that is to be expected, as my sister I still don't think is entirely bought into this. I did get some help from my elder niece, Madeleine, as she is big enough at 13 to haul stuff. She also did a great job of sorting thru part of a box of picture finding ones of Mum as a baby, and growing up.
I ended up bringing a one box high van full of boxes of papers, and pictures (not sure we'll have any time to go thru them...), and some books, dishes, glass ware and pottery, and the contents of our games drawers from the living room. Someone is moving in October 1, ans Leslie wants it ready Monday morning. The rest of the stuff in the basement can wait til I've gone thru this haul.
My sister is very different from me. I have no spoons at the moment to describe. It's been a rough day. Thank you,
sweetmmeblue and family for feeding me when I stopped by to pick up tables tonight.We should be climbing the Mountain tomorrow morning. Mum always considered Jaffrey, NH to be home. While she loved the ocean, it was Jaffrey that she thought was home when she had her stroke in 1999, and Mt. Mondanock has always been her favorite. She just loved that mountain. We'll be going up the White Dot trail, and down the White Cross, not Mum's favorite trails; her favorite was Pumpelly Ridge, which starts in Dublin and is much longer, 6 miles up I think, instead of 4 miles round trip the way we are planning. She also like the Spruce Link, and some of the trails which went up the left side of the mountain.