We have a contract on our Autumn View Drive home, a plane ticket to Boise, ID, to pick up our new home-on-wheels,  and a dwindling list of reasons not to make the trip happen.  Did I mention I will really miss the ice and snow a lot? I have titled the scene here The Ice Pic.

Where the season started with a full bag of rock salt, looks like that  is one of the items we won’t have to find a home for.

The plan now is for the five of us to leave on March 14, 2014. Deciding what to ship to our new Florida home, knowing we won’t see the item until August (didn’t January seem like six months?) hasn’t troubled us.  Taking perfectly useable items to the Carroll County landfill has been the painful part, and one we’ve worked hard to avoid.

God bless Goodwill. They take a lot of our gently used stuff. As if anything leaving a house of three boys can be considered gently used.

Once, in desperation, I went out on Facebook to plead for someone to come get our stand-up Lester piano.  You will be pleased to know that in addition to informing friends and strangers that I just picked up my mail from the mailbox, I could also have given away seven more pianos! Yay Facebook!

Speaking of downsizing, in our next post, we are a looking for a home for members of our living, breathing family.  After much discussion, we decided to take all three children. The fish are frozen at the bottom of the pond, so they of necessity will convey.  But …well stayed tuned!