Trying to get settled

July 24 

Wendy helped us three days this week and what a difference it has made.  Yesterday after taking Ron to pick up the Tahoe and going to the storage unit to pick up the last items: dresser, bedside table and floor lamp, they came here and put things in place. Having the second dresser gives us a ton of storage space. Ron and I spent the afternoon organizing  closets and drawers. It is all coming together so nicely.

In the afternoon we went to a movie which we had not done for weeks. Then we tried a nearby India restaurant. It was no where near as good as our favorite place, India House. It was a good day.

July 25

Today we went to the farmers’ market in Vancouver and got some fresh berries. Afterwards we picked up two bookcases Ron had ordered. It took the rest of the day to assemble them. The second one went much faster than the first. Tomorrow we will bring our books from the storage unit and place them on the shelves.  With that I do believe we will be done moving in. Yeah!

July 27 

 We got the books sorted at the storage unit and bought home the ones we wanted to keep. The living room is now complete and looks terrific. Kathy Burkey called me today and I said it feels like home now that we are surrounded by familiar objects and we are content to be here. Ron has worked tirelessly to get it all done. Our next task is to go to the storage unit and dig through the two filing cabinets and bring what we want to keep here and store in our storage unit available at the condo in either the basement or on the third floor where we live. They are a real bonus.

Mark, our son, came in from VA last night and left for the Britt festival this morning. It was great to see him even for a short visit. We will try to go see him perform next week before Ron leaves for VA.

We are now on our way to see Mr Holmes, a movie about an aging Sherlock. We will be joined by our friends John and Kathy Somers and Rick and Ellen Levine, our weekly movie group. Ron and I have missed about a month of movies so we are delighted we be joining them again.