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Moving Day Dawns

It’s a year ago that we broke ground for this project and although there is plenty of trim and built-in furniture to build the house is eminently liveable so - time to move in. Yippee!

Our friends Jim & Iain Richardson volunteered to help with humping the furniture (hmm, even though they’ve Navy types that doesn’t sound quite right...) and arrived this morning with a truck and cheery faces. We started by getting the heavy stuff out of the garage and into the garage. If you see what I mean. I need the woodworking equipment and lumber stock on hand to get that missing trim done, so it is important stuff. Since the rental house is only a few hundred yards away from home (Ah, how nice to be able to say that!) we could make quick trips without having to get all technical about loading the truck.

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Some of the woodworking equipage

Then a couple of trips with more machinery, garden furniture, stacks of boxes that have sat undisturbed since last February, and finally actual in-use furniture and we were done. Somewhere in there we were served a terrific lunch by Bridget, who had been mixing the culinary work with packing and tidying, all assisted by our old friend Barb.
Obviously one very important job was getting the bed sorted out so we had somewhere to sleep but what really said “You’re home” was putting this little cupboard in its assigned niche in the hallway.

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Home at last

This little bit of furniture was made in my old workshop at Coulterville in 2001 and has been greeting people to our home ever since.