The goal of everything neatly packed and the house renter-ready by Tuesday morning was a long shot. Driving away at 5:30 pm, we were only 10 hours behind but at least we were finally leaving. The most uncontrollable factor, the weather, was kind to us – a week of blue skies followed the endless snow storms.

A wide path was tidied up and with no new snow, the tractor was retired to the barn. Visions of needing the tractor to get out of the driveway crossed my mind – not that I’d have anything to do with that, I can’t even put the clutch in on the Kuboto.  Happily I didn’t have to.

We proceeded to fill the barn with furniture, the bed and various whatnot using the garden cart with flaccid tires,  its common condition. Spend 20 minutes searching for said garden cart before we realized we’d put the mattress on it and left it outside. We were getting goofy.

We also filled the trash – I’d’ve sworn we didn’t have much stuff, but we have a LOT less now.