Happy 2009!

We've spent the last few days moving.  It took three trips in the 26 foot U-Haul truck to bring it all down to the new house.  I was bound and determined to be out of Winfield before 2009.  We did it with only a minute or two to spare.  We brought 2009 in going down the highway with the last of our possessions firmly tied down in the back of the U-Haul.

Now to unbox and put away.  ~sigh~  This is a job that I've been planning for five years.  I'm going through every box and every knick knack.  If I can't find it a home, it is going in a garage sale and if it doesn't sell during that, then it is going to GoodWill or Salvation Army.  I'm even going to go through all of my Christmas decorations and clear out those that aren't used any more.  This is going to take many days/weeks to do.  I keep thinking that if I spend just an hour a day or maybe even just a box a day that I will make some headway.  But first I have to unpack the essentials and get a new life going here in T-Town.

OC is not happy.  I brought her down yesterday morning.  She spent the whole trip sitting in her crate meowing and mewing her unhappiness at being boxed up.  I set the crate down in her new backyard, opened it up and she walked out, sniffed a time or two and then walked back into the crate and curled up in a ball.  She didn't come back out all day.  Last night, I fed her and spent a few minutes petting her and such trying to get her more accustomed to the new place.  This morning she didn't show up for breakfast and she hasn't come when I called.

Darcy on the other hand is in doggie heaven.  She loves being able to go out into the back yard and being able to just run around w/o a chain in her way.  Baron keeps getting fussed at because he goes into the back yard and proceeds to bark at the dogs in the other yards.  Chris has said that he would rather be the neighbor that gets mad about other dogs than be the neighbor that everyone is mad at because his dog is barking.

Okay.  Rest time is over.  Time to go find a box and unpack it.

Happy 2009!!