Garage Time
For the record: last Saturday, 177 days after the moving van came and went, while the temperature hovered around -5°F, we finally cleared a big enough space in the garage to fit a car into. … ‣ more…
Category Archives: Moving
Rooting
St. Paul is becoming home. Today marks four months since we first arrived on these shores. Here are a few contributors to the sense of rootedness that has been growing since the Santa Fe trip. … ‣ more…
Rooted
How long does it take to make a home? This I know: two months is not long enough, but a span of decades suffices. Innumerable factors go into the sense of being at home in … ‣ more…
Plates
Today I put the Minnesota license plates on Maxie the Ford C-MAX Energi. Goodbye, Massachusetts EV. Hello, plain vanilla Minnesota vehicle. The occasion does feel just slightly momentous. It’s not that I have been avoiding … ‣ more…
LANline
When the telephone meets the Internet, local loses out. We moved to Minnesota and didn’t immediately install a land-line telephone, with copper to the premises and powered from the central office (i.e., not on the … ‣ more…
Access
The Internet is a sometime thing at our new place. The cable guy comes Friday morning to get us hooked up for 50 Mbps down / 5 up. Comcast: imagine my joy. We had initially … ‣ more…
Van
The moving van will be arriving today about 1:00 pm, some 18 hours earlier than the originally estimated time. I am looking forward to having places to sit and to put things. The hundreds of … ‣ more…
Sleep
Our new online-ordered Leesa mattress arrived yesterday on the UPS truck. When we flew out last month to close on the new house, we had brought an inflatable mattress in checked luggage; that’s what we … ‣ more…
Arrival
We arrived at Arezzo Ristorante yesterday at 6:30, right on time to meet Katharyn’s brother to celebrate his birthday. We literally got out of the car after driving from Geneva, Illinois and sat down to … ‣ more…
Betwixt
Two-thirds of the way to St. Paul, in our laden car Maxie (the Ford C-MAX), we are between two lives. Here is one symbol of the state of betwixtness in which we journey: Our house … ‣ more…