Our Moving "Adventure"

We are moved in, at least I should say everything we own is now moved to the new place, many weeks ahead un-packing and actually "moving in". The move actually went fairly smooth, until the "last" truck to come up the driveway for this entire project did not make it, more on that in a minute.

We drove to NE Ohio on Monday afternoon (Labor Day), stayed at Christopher's apartment Monday night and we were at Penske at 7AM Tuesday morning. We rented a 16' Penske truck ourselves to transport everything out of climate controlled storage. We then went to storage and the moving company met us there about 9:30AM. They brought two 26' trucks and backed each one up to our two main storage units and each truck had two guys, total of four guys.

Danial and his friend Nick came to help and we loaded everything out of climate control into the Penske and also loaded my pick-up truck and our 16' trailer with items the movers couldn't transport, such as propane tanks, acetylene tanks, paints, etc. Danial, Nick and I then went to Christopher's apartment and moved everything out of our freezer that has been in his garage into coolers, loaded the freezer into the Penske and also loaded other items from the apartment.

The movers completed loading everything else into the two trucks and were done by about 2PM. Lorrie then came to the apartment and we headed South, me driving the Penske and Lorrie driving the pick-up with the 16' trailer behind it. We arrived around 7PM, immediately un-loaded the freezer into the deer processing area, got it plugged in and un-loaded all the coolers of frozen food back into it., relaxed a bit and slept in the camper, with full intentions of sleeping the next night in the house.

Wednesday morning Lorrie and I were up early and we un-loaded the rest of the Penske truck except the gun safe and un-loaded my truck/ trailer. The movers arrived at 11AM. The first truck drove back and up the hill no problem at all, then we were waiting on the second truck, nothing...... then we hear "beep, beep, beep" like the truck was backing up. By the time I got over there to see what was going on, the guy had backed down the hill and off the side of the driveway into the ditch and was stuck........placed a call to the local towing business for large trucks (I am familiar with them, they've been here before......) and then all four guys started un-loading the first truck.

The tow truck comes an hour later, pulls him out really with no problem. We all agreed, have the driver of the first truck, drive the second truck up the hill. He also got about half way up the hill and just like the fist time, the truck just did not have enough power to get up the hill. It just stopped. They backed it down safely this time, then planned to pull forward into a side road I have at the bottom of the hill, and guess what, the truck had no forward gears, it would only go backwards..... are we having fun yet?

Ok, I'll speed up here, we ended up backing the truck all the way out, then taking the Penske truck down and backed them up back to back and they un-loaded everything from the bigger truck into the Penske over two trips and driving the Penske up the hill, no issues.

By about 6PM, they were done, the second truck had been towed to the local garage and they were all four crammed into the first truck and on their way back to NE Ohio. Lorrie and I immediately took off in the Penkse and her truck heading to Hurricane, WV to return the Penske, a one hour drive each way. By the time we got back from returning it. it was nearly 10PM, we just headed back to the camper and went to sleep.

We spent the day yesterday focusing on the bedrooms, master bathroom and my office and we finally spent our first night in the house last night. I had another 20 ton load of gravel delivered last night for up around the house/ pavilion (funny, he had no problem getting up the hill.....). I am heading out to start moving that around, Lorrie will continue in the house the slow not so enjoyable process of un-packing....... so goes our moving "adventure".

Our main storage units, before all the fun begins.

Our son Danial on the left and his friend Nick, with all the "geranimals" from climate controlled storage.

Up bright and early Wednesday morning to finish un-loading the trucks we drove down before the movers arrived.

First moving truck arrives, no problem.

Second moving truck, not so much......

Second truck getting towed out.

Our solution to getting everything off the second truck and up to the house.

Setting up the log bed in the master bedroom.

A little chaos at this point....

Our Good Luck Cricket from our dear friends Hans and Sophie Klossner, we had placed it in a location that we could find it quickly after the move and put it out. See next picture for the story.

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Calendar and the bear and some of the other animals up in the loft.

Log bed in the front upstairs bedroom.

Log bed in the master bedroom, finally got to sleep in the house last night :).