Just Chill

It has been a busy December with all the back and forth trying to get the house ready and moved into. We borrowed our son-in-law's big pick up truck and trailer to move down, but trailer had some problems and the lights and breaks didn't work.  Jim was trying to get them fixed but the weather turned very cold with wind chills of minus 40. Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same at minus 40, COLD. The weather was bad all over the country so just went in the the truck and I talked about that last blog.

We didn't get all the work done in the house. We were a little optimistic to think that we could repair, paint and floor the entire place in less than a week. We left Coutts Wednesday December 18. Thursday and Friday we loaded all we could into the trailer and Saturday back to Coutts again. Jim got the lights working, but we went down without breaks. Not a good idea, but it was okay. Sunday we unloaded and came back to Edmonton  Monday. He did get the breaks fixed when we were in Coutts. It was all in the wiring. The weather has not been very cooperative. Here is a picture of us leaving with the empty trailer. And no we don't have the skirting on yet.

Tuesday we were going to drive 6 hours to the other side of Grande Prairie, return the truck and come back to Edmonton to do Christmas dinner. That's when I thought .....just chill....The weather has warmed up to around freezing, so now that it is warm, it is time to chill. We spent  Christmas Eve with our daughter and family. Coming back Christmas Day the roads were not the best. That is a four lane divided highway. You can tell I took the picture because my finger is in the shot. Jim usually takes all the pictures but he was a little busy at the time.

The "kids" here in Edmonton took over and did the dinner and all we had to do was show up.

We were going to jump right back into packing up the last of what has to go, but no, we are taking Boxing Day off. All the big stuff is gone, well almost all, we have the kiln and glazes to move. But most of the stuff is gone, we just have to clean up the mess and pack up the studio, clean out the garage and shed, all my stuff in the flower bed...... Ok there is more there than I had thought. It is too bad that we didn't get it all done when we had the trailer, but we didn't. I think we will rent a small cube van one way to Lethbridge and what we can fit we take and if it doesn't fit, we don't need it anymore.We might not be done all the cleaning and studio by the end of the month, but .....just chill.... it will get done.

By the time we are done, we will have traveled about 30,000 K or 18,000 miles back and forth from looking at places to our last move in. We are not planning a road trip this summer!

Happy Holidays everyone and all the best for 2014!

Until next time.

AKA Mrs. Clay