The move

The moving company was concerned about loading a 5 bedroom house, moving it and unloading it, all in one day. Made more difficult by the limited number of men they could send due to Covid 19 restrictions.

So they loaded 2 trucks the day before the closing day. No food in the house so Nicola and I ate on the Erie Beach patio. Felt so strange to choose from a menu, eat something I hadn't cooked, be served. Good strange!

This gave Nic and I an empty house to clean on the morning of closing.

Mixed emotions about the move;

George and I had talked about this house, planned and designed for the 8 years that we used the cottage as a cottage, we visited the build frequently (with George always bringing a dozen donuts for the building crew),

we had wanted room for family and friends to visit, room to entertain,

be energy efficient and to take advantage of the view.

Simon and Daniele helped us finish the basement. In fact Si did all the trim in the whole house and built the wall between the upstairs bedrooms. A lot of him in the house too.

Amazing to see this room without all the wool and yarn.

Yes, mixed emotions. As Christine identified, it was the last place that George lived. The last physical connection to a house that he was so part of and which was designed to accommodate his social nature. But he has been gone for 7 years now and I feel ready to have my own place. The time feels right and the new house feels right.

There are no pictures of the actual move in. In spite of starting a day early it was still constant work until 10:30 at night. No time for pictures (assuming I could find the camera).