Beltane                                                                     Summer Moon

Boxes have begun to pile up. Some with yellow tape. Not sure yet. Most right now with red tape. Sell. A few with green tape. Move. As the months progress the green boxes will out number the red ones as we “edit” our belongings. Edit is a real estate term for cleaning all the junk out of the house before you try to sell it.

We’ll have SortTossPack come the last week of June to help clear out the garage, take our bedroom furniture except for the bed, the furniture in the guest room, again with the exception of the bed. By then we’ll also have numerous boxes of books and curios, dvds and such. I’m hopeful sometime in that time frame the Vectra, the leg press, the long arm quilter and the riding lawnmower have gone on to other homes where they will be used.

We meet with the last realtor to interview next Tuesday, the day after we meet with our financial consultant. On Tuesday Anne, Kate’s sister, helped us begin what will be a larger editing of our landscape. Mostly pruning, but some new plantings as well. On that day, too, I cut away the yew over the boulder wall.

All this work, small chunks at a time, has taken the edge off the move for me, made it something now, rather than later. We are, so far, making the move a pleasant experience, one with enough time to accomplish. May it be so going forward, too.