THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED….LIMBO TIME

I seem to have done this moving thing so many times that it seems quite familiar.  There comes a point in the selling/moving process where too much is packed to really do things right…be it cooking, dressing nicely, playing your records, or pretty much anything.

I have to admit though that not having Spod looking over my shoulder into the current garbage can has made it somewhat easier.  Yesterday Monte and I loaded up the back of the truck, and I mean loaded full, with chemicals.  Watco oil (four cans!) slug bait, oils for various things, bug dusts, raid, jugs of unknown stuff etc… and he took it all to a special dump that takes chemicals etc..

  I remember now that when we were packing up the last house I had a hell of a time getting him to clear out the garage and sheds.  When he finally swung into action I remember a whole bunch of trips over here by himself (go in the morning and home in the evening) with his truck loaded to the gills.  Now I see what he was dragging over here…to the tune of 200 bucks a trip with the ferry included.

And I have to admit to being not much better with 'under the sink' crap.  I always swear I am not going to cram under sinks with bottles and bottles of stuff, but it always ends up so crowded you can hardly shut the doors.  So its all going to the dump, except for dish, laundry and hand soap, and the pink cans of lysal (sp?).  It smells good and cleans everything.  NOTHING else is going under the sink.  Nothing.

So it looks like I have three hell holes to tackle.  It won't make a difference to the pics tomorrow that are being shot, and the video on Friday, but those holes need to be done before the house goes on the market.  One is the front hall closet.  The second is my giant pantry cupboard.  And the third is the fridge.

The biggest problem is going to be the disposal of edible stuff.  Now that we can't put food in the general garbage, putting it in the scrap container is a huge giant pain in the ass.  I have at least forty containers of gooey stuff (like dips and cream cheeses), plastic wrapped frozen stuff, bags and bags and bags of dry stuff like cereal, dried onions, chips, quinoa (shovel list…hate this stuff), prunes, tea, marshmallows, split peas, dried up wormy raisins, etc…  Its going to take forever!  I will be keeping a lot of food but there is a ton that needs to be tossed.

I think the first thing I am going to do when I move to Kamloops is go to Costco and buy a small freezer.  I am not taking the old one from here…I love it but it weighs a ton.  At 45 bucks per hundred pounds to move it, I think it would be cheaper to buy a new one.  That way most of the good frozen stuff I can put in a cooler in the car and drive it up when I move.

And this is where Shannon comes in.  Bless her heart, she is coming over this week end coming up to help.  Originally I thought it would be the garage but Monte and I got that pretty much as done as we can.  So I think I may enlist her help with my hell holes…the final frontier!!! 

I am throwing on some random pics.  Just for the heck of it.  TTYL!!

ON A BUS IN COSTA RICA….THE GUIDE SHOWED US WHERE CASHEW NUTS COME FROM…THAT STEM AT THE TOP OF THAT FRUIT ENCASES THE NUT…I WAS SHOCKED!!!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE…IN ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA…THIS IS WENDY, KERRY'S SISTER…WE RANDOMLY RAN INTO THEM ON THE CRUISE WE WERE ON AND WE HAD THE MOST FUN WITH THEM!!!  GREAT TRAVEL COMPANIONS.

THEY TOOK US OUT TO A SPECIALTY RESTAURANT FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY!  I WAS REALLY APPRECIATIVE, POOR WENDY WAS SO SO SICK THAT NIGHT

KAREOKEING  CUZZES

BAMFIELD PEACEFUL CONTEMPLATION

ARRRRG!!! SHAKING THE PIRATE'S HOOK IN THE CARIBBEAN 

 NAKED COWBOY NYC!!

THIS WAS OUR LAST TRIP OUT OF BAMFIELD :(

SUCH A CUTE PICTURE OF THEM!