Anyone moving to MN?

[neohic]

Moving day is this coming Friday. We are fortunate enough to have both closings on the houses at the same location within hours of each other. Took this Thursday off as well to get and load the truck... I just hope everything fits! I'd hate to give the wife another reason to tell me that I have too much stuff sitting around!

[neohic]

Well... the time has come to say goodbye to our first home. Got the moving truck sitting in the driveway and the action starts early tomorrow morning. :(

 

Anyhow, my interweb service gets shut off sometime between now and tomorrow morning. I'll let everyone know how everything goes after the fact. Anyone with my phone number, please let me know if I miss anything cool around here. Thanks, dudes.

 

Man... what a huge drag... definitely the time to sound the "sad trombone".

[neohic]

Moving went as well as it could given many variables. We had an issue right from the get-go with the moving truck and a couple other hiccups: Two weeks before, we had a truck all lined up and reserved. Two days before we move, I get a call asking if we are still interested in renting... I said yes. "Well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but we don't have a truck available for the date you requested". WHAT?! I distinctly remember asking this guy what the purpose of a reservation was in about as many different and vulgar ways I could think of. Over the next ten minutes of listening to tell him how... we'll say disappointed... I was, he finally told me that the best thing he could do was to call around the state and find another truck. "And who would be paying my mileage to go and get this new truck?" I asked. "Well... that would be our responsibility"... and so it went for the next ten minutes or so. We ended up finding a U-Haul from the town we moved to and just rented it as a round trip instead of the convenient one-way that we originally had. Problem was, we "reserved" a 26' truck and all that we could get was a 17' through U-Haul... big problem! So, using our best Tetris skills, we packed that truck all the way up to the ceiling and ended up renting another 6x12' trailer locally that needed to be returned next day. This was day number one.

 

Day number two started off with closing on both houses and making a caravan up to Alexandria. Not a whole lot to report, just the fact that things were hectic and needed to get unloaded quickly to get the truck and trailer back on time.

 

On the third day, we started off with driving back to St. Cloud where my truck and two VWs were parked at my parent's place. I had another full load in my truck, and with a Beetle in tow we made it back to our new home. Issues for that day? Wind... lots of it! All the best I could do to keep everything on the road was 55mph. Any little bump and the little car in tow would pull the MJ back and forth like some kind of sickening carnival ride! We made it back again and continued the unpacking. I still need to get back to St. Cloud for the other VW, but that'll wait until I fix an injector leak... yes... injector leak. I had one before the trip that I thought was fixed only to realize that it was much worse than it was, "fixed" that to find that the two middle injectors are still leaking and now the fuel supply on the rail is leaking now too.

 

I couldn't stand working on my truck again, so I ended up working out in my new garage with hopes of making myself a new home... er... work area. Granted, going from a 24x32' shop down to a small two stall garage is extremely tough for me. On one side is my Beetle and boxes and boxes of parts. On the other is where the truck parks, the dune buggy will, and where my janky work spot is going to be. This place needs outlets and power too... everywhere! There are extension cords running up and down the walls like some kind of crazy orange jungle vines! That'll get done before winter... probably.

 

Anyhow, I see that I have a ton of catching up to do around here as I haven't had interweb capabilities since Thursday with high hopes that I'll have service when I get home from work today. It's been a crazy ride all weekend and now that it's time to get back to work, all I want to do is curl up somewhere and take a nap!

[Pete M]

sounds like it's time to contemplate a new pole barn/work shop. :brows:

[neohic]

sounds like it's time to contemplate a new pole barn/work shop. :brows:

 

Got that right! Just the same as when I was looking for our first house, she was interested in the structure and I was looking at the land. Last time, I had a perfect spot to build... this time we went to a full acre of land so I can go ATLEAST twice the size! :D

[Pete M]

[terrawombat]

If it makes you feel any better, I just went from a house with an 80'x32' shop to a house with a 0'x0' shop/garage/area with concrete. Be grateful you at least have a garage, even if it has no power outlets :D

[neohic]

Unpacking is going as well as it can and I'm adjusting to the smaller garage space.

 

Day one:

 

Two:

 

Three... and as the room still sits:

 

As for the garage... well.. it's slightly smaller than I'm used to:

 

So much stuff that I never really thought about how much there actually is. So much that on the unloading day, it all just took up as much room as it could... on the floor... on the crappy shelf... everywhere but an out-of-the-way spot:

 

That’s not even including another vehicle. So, between the last couple days, and going back to St. Cloud, the last car came to the new house and the organizing began. The crappy old shelf came down and new, bigger, and better shelves went up!

 

 

It’s tight with everything in there, but it all fits with walking room!:

 

Next came some sort of work area. There was a small bench in the corner that I worked off of. More shelves! I figured that I’ve got mega high walls so I’d better take advantage of that and just keep going up:

 

 

… and up some more!:

 

Sad to report this, but there was an incident that happened… and it kept me up all night because I was the one who did it. I’m not happy to say that, but I think it’s best to take responsibility for the act. See, while loading the trailer, there was a jack… the jack slipped out from my hand and it landed sooner than I had wanted… because… because that too soon spot in the trailer was filled… it was filled with a black interior. THERE I SAID IT! I DROPPED A FLOOR JACK ON A PREVIOUSLY MINT BLACK DASH BOARD! I apologize to myself, but more importantly I apologize to the Comanche community. For the faint of heart and for those with a weak stomach, this is a warning to look away now:

 

 

Fortunately, the crack is where the windshield meets the dash… but still… it happened.

 

Otherwise, things are going well.