The fat lady has her spear in hand, her golden hair braided, her Viking hat on and she’s striding onto the stage. She’s not there yet but she’s warmed up and waiting her big moment.
Yep, Nancy and Gary have finished emptying their home, the storage bay is filled to the brim, Lloyd and Mary have carried off their pieces and the less than dynamic duo has retreated to their new ‘home’ for a much deserved rest.
Today, we made our last trip over to our old home. We knew we had one trip left and decided to make it today rather than Sunday or Monday since we wanted to get it over with. Why procrastinate when you can do it today? We had loaded up the back of our Jeep with household items for the Free Store and dropped these off in downtown Des Moines on our way to our home. We had 4 laundry baskets filled along with lots of miscellaneous sheets, towels, silverware, pots and pans and disscloths and towels, etc for them.
They perform quite a service in Des Moines and it’s all with volunteers. They provide household items from dishes to dressers to beds to towels for abused women and their families. Case workers refer these people to the Free Store and escort them through. Here are a few pictures of their warehouse just waiting for a family to come to choose their new possessions.
Then, on to the house for the final trip to the storage area, a load of items for my brother Jack, whom we will see tomorrow, a final cleaning of the garage and a final sweep of the house to ensure that we have not forgotten anything. I had vacuumed all 3 floors earlier and had left the definite tell-tale pattern of the vacuum cleaner in each room for the new owner.
Am I sad to leave it? Of course. I loved looking out the windows and seeing the heron poised for a strike across the pond. I loved seeing the geese families swimming in formation past our home and I loved seeing the sun streaming through the windows brightening every crevice. It didn’t take much imagination to feel as if we were living in a park with the green grass, the mature trees and the pond. But it is time to move on. We have other things we want to do and we’ll get our park setting by actually staying in our National Parks along the way.
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