Packing and Moving

 

First off, I apologize for my dark photos.

I feel like I am operating under war time conditions.

My digital camera stopped working, without warning,

and my favorite editing program is on another computer.

Add to the equation packing a huge house and moving into a much smaller one

and you have one stressed person!

Yet, when I find a mangy, plastic deer, in the midst of packing, I pause to assemble him into a vigniette.

He is my oasis of sanity.

I think I'll hand carry him to the next house (4 blocks away, "across town").

 

 

The boxes are slowly stacking up.

 

Today I'm packing the butler's pantry.

I don't have cupboard space like this at the other house, so a lot of it will remain in boxes until I figure out how to dispose if it.

Table cloth and linen napkins embroidered by my mother while she was pregnant with me, vintage cotton table cloths printed with 1950s motifs,

Longaberger baskets I use occasionally, canning jars, and many more  things I can't recall,

all fit snugly in one place in this house, but will have to be separated and scattered into whatever small storage areas in the other house.

Or just left in the boxes I pack them in until I decide how to sell it or give it away.

A lot of it just has to GO.

I'm getting to the point where I'm ready to cut loose of some (no, a lot!) of my accumulation.

Then, my oldest daughter picks up an item, as if seeing it for the first time (and maybe she has),

and says, "this is pretty, can I have it?"

And then I'm reminded of why I keep it all.

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