Giving Thanks (11-27-15)

The few days before Thanksgiving were frantic with last minute details.  Every morning when I arrived at the house at 7 am, there were 12 or so trucks crowding the yard and street. Everyone from painters to cleaners and plumbers were all trying to get their part of the job finished.

Amidst all this chaos, our friends arrived.

 

These are special friends- you know- the kind who show up when you are at your busiest, and most stressed, and manage to reduce your burden instead of adding to it. The kind of friends who bring you lunch without being asked, and who say “dinner is at our place” for the 5th night in a row, because they know you are too tired and too stressed to think about food.  The kinds of friends who just start doing whatever needs to be done…

from building a fence…

…to spreading gravel, they helped us push our projects forward.

At the end of the work day their job was not over, no sir, they managed to entertain us and keep us laughing no matter how tired we were.





Julie was quickly elected “Reader of the Owner’s Manuals”. With all new appliances, we are constantly hearing beeping and whenever an appliance made a noise, the call went out for Julie to decipher its meaning.

I have been so tired, I can hardly remember what we did in the last week, so in addition to all of the above, Julie was even the ghost writer for this blog post! We sure are lucky to have friends like that.


After the first of our stuff arrived Tuesday, Wednesday was finally moving day.  We were all determined to be at the house for Thanksgiving.  We spent the day mostly transferring our stuff from the resort to the house, and unpacking a few things. By about lunchtime, Mike and Julie were able to move to their RV spot at the house.

The spacing worked out just how we wanted it to, with plenty of room, and a great view of the unfinished pool!

Our move was more complicated-

-we had to take the camper off the truck, use the truck to transfer all our stuff, and then put the hitch back in so we could move our trailer over-we backed it into it’s spot just as it was getting dark. 

Finally it was Thanksgiving Day!

We got the good news that Dave and Nancy would be coming back for the holiday, and they were our first guests in the new guest room!

Cooking a holiday dinner in a house that we had just moved into the previous day turned into a complete comedy and involved countless trips out to the camper and trailers.

All morning long questions abounded-

Where’s the colander?  In the trailer. No wait, in the camper.

Do we have a bowl that will fit the cranberry?  Check in those those boxes over there…No?  Look in Julie’s trailer for one.

How do you use the timer on the oven?  JULIE!!!!!

Did we bring over the butter?  Nope, gotta go get it in the trailer.

Where’s the cover to that pot?  Apparently its on the other moving van- the one that didn’t arrive.

After a few hours and much laughter, the meal was ready and as always, we had a great time.





After just one day of standing around the island in the kitchen, the decision was made that we needed bar stools ASAP, so off we all went on Friday, to Lowes, where the Black Friday price on barstools was awesome!






We women split off to visit the stores we were interested in, while the guys headed to Tractor Supply and Harbor Freight.  Once we were all back at he house, the project of the day was the assembly of the stools.

All too soon it was time for Dave and Nancy to leave.  We sure enjoyed having the driveway full of vehicles, and hope it will be full often!