Well Kevin, Elise, April, Myles, Monte and I all converged on the storage unit. OMG!! What an emotionally exhausting endeavour that was. Initially I had thought Monte and I could do it but there would have been no way. I would have walked in there, looked around, started crying and walked away.
There was trouble to begin with. It occurred to me in the middle of the night that I had picked up my keys at home last thing, and made the fateful decision to leave them home as I have no van key on them. But guess what is on them. The keys to the storage unit lock. Effadoodle!!!!! So before we could even begin we had go to Princess auto and buy bolt cutters.
I have a wooden sturdy round large container...like an oversized hat box. I plunked myself down onto it. Elise, an amazing helper!, would hand me the next box and I would sort through it. She worked like a trojan!!! And she slung the heaviest boxes around like a pro!
About the tenth box I opened had my native statues in it!!!! I was so relieved and happy! In fact there was quite a bit of native art. I think I may keep this stuff. Every box was such a huge reminder of Bill. Most of the stuff I kept of his I am so glad I did. One thing I kept is a lovely carryon size roller suitcase...full of his RCMP uniforms. In another box we came across, randomly, a wee red shoe. It was Jennifer's when she was tiny. I never could find the other shoe but I have always kept that one.
Myles or Kevin, I can't remember which one figured I threw out about half the storage unit. As Kerry put it when I put that stuff in there I was just kicking the job down the road! A good way to put it.
But it is all done now. The storage unit was completely empty and clean.
Now let me tell you about the tetrising job Kevin did packing the van! Omg!!! It is literally packed tight to the tits. The last thing to go in was Bill's stuffed fish!!! It is laying across the top of the tightly ingeniously packed boxes right up at the roof. And all the stuff is coming to my house. Sigh. (shovel list). We do have a storage room fairly empty that we will put all the boxes in. And from there I will sort again...maybe.....some day.
I gave April all the pics which I don't think she wanted as she has zero room for them all. But she picked up an old old photo album with pics of Bill and his family going way back, and she says 'I am taking this. Mom will just lose it.' or something like that. Well fine then...you can be the keeper of all the pics. Hah!!! The only reason we still have all those hundreds of pictures is because they were not in organized albums, they were all in boxes in the cold room downstairs in the big house. The one that burned down. But the cold room was made of cement, did not burn and everything in there was perfectly safe.
Today is turkey day. There are a lot of people here. Kerry, Kathy, the three girls, Drew (Emily's squeeze..awesome guy), Jo and Craig, Ainsley and Stirling, Auntie Dorothy and Uncle Dave from Seattle. Uncle Dave turns 100 next summer and Auntie Dorothy is just about 90. They are so vibrant and amazing. He actually worked up until he was 94. He was a psychoanalyst. And Monte, April and Myles. And they have an enormous table so we can actually all sit down to dinner together. And believe it or not...we all get along super well. No fights...no angst of any sort. Lots of laughter and eating!!!
The storage unit only took two hours. Many hands and all that. So around one in the afternoon they all headed towards Tunkwa Lake above Savana for a weiner roast. Monte and I stayed behind. I was totally knackered. I am still battling the leftovers of the virus I had on the boat. We are pretty sure it was covid. Dorothy, Kathy's Dorothy, also had the same thing and is having trouble totally shaking it. I did NOT feel well so I sat in the rocking chair, had a wee snooze and watched BritBox. Monte stayed behind too. His brain needed defragging so he had a nice long nap.
Now it is early early morning and I am waiting to hear people milling about so I can go upstairs and get a coffee. Time to get this day started!!!
TFL. TTYL
pics in a couple of days
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