[My most recent run was Monday evening, 2.8 miles on SCR 70]
I just finished up my second week at the new job.
Last week I was at an AirBnb. This week I am camping out at the new house.
I ran on Monday evening. I started from the new house and went west past the forest products to the first habitable house. Then I turned back. It made 2.8 miles. So our nearest neighbor to the west is about a mile and a half.
The week has gone well at work. It finished nicely today. I finally talked to the guy who retired that I am replacing. We had a nice phone call. And he gave me some help in finding the source of my first bug. I’ll have to sort out some kind of a solution on Monday, but it was nice to have my first win at the new place.
Our internet guy came on Thursday morning and plugged in a new router box. The people before us had this same rural fiber service, so the fiber was already in place. I went for the highest speed plan. Rural fiber is amazing.
I’ve been to the little Piggly Wiggly grocery store in town a few times. They have the basics. There are two gas stations in town that I know of, one fast food place (a Wards, which is a new chain for me), a large Dollar General.
My drive to work is pleasant. It is close to 30 miles to the Wal-Mart in Laurel.
Tomorrow I have some work to do to prepare for the arrival of the ducks early next week. (We have 13 ducks. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that. We are getting about 6 eggs a day. Duck eggs are very good.)
Then there is a social thing happening in the middle of the day. And in the afternoon I drive back to the house in Columbus.
Sunday I need to gather up stuff, put it in the van, and drive back down. And I need to do my laundry. There’s a list of stuff I’m supposed to accomplish during that little window of time.
And back to work on Monday.
The movers are coming to pack the remaining stuff up, coming on Monday. Then they will load the truck on Tuesday and deliver the stuff to the new house on Wednesday.
Melinda has been enjoying an improvement in life due to her surgery a couple of weeks ago. She had her staples removed yesterday and the doctor was happy with her progress. She has continued with her walking since arriving home from the hospital. Her sister has kindly been staying at our house to assist. Melinda still has lifting restrictions.
By the end of the day next Wednesday we should be pretty much installed. Oh, and I get my first paycheck on Monday. I should go look up if they already did the EFT into my account… nope, not yet.
Also, today I ordered a clothes washer/dryer set from Lowes. They should come on Sunday the 21st. So I probably will need to find time for a trip to the laundro-mat in the middle of next week.
I wasn’t sure how all of this was going to happen. But it seems to be coming together. I have the job and I’ve demonstrated that it is something I can do. Melinda had her surgery and that turned out well. We found a house. We have the moving people lined up.
Probably the next big thing is getting the old house sold. That may take awhile, who knows. We bought that house in 2009, in the fall. So it will be 16 years that we have owned it, the longest of any of our 8 houses. The trees we planted grew big enough to provide shade.