I am sitting here at the kitchen table doing my first bit of writing on my new computer. It has Wi-Fi capabilities so I can work anywhere in the house...or go out on the front porch,deck, or patio. The computer was part of my birthday present and is greatly appreciated. It is also time to reflect on the past little over a month while getting settled.
Moving day, of course, was hectic with getting things out of Pat and Myla's, the storage facility, and getting them moved the fifty some miles to the "new" house. The essential things were put away while the rest was put in the garage and basement for later sorting. The day was made more memorable by the fact the grandkids spent the first night in the house with us. Now we could make arrangements for our things to come down from Michigan. Thank God for dear church friends who loaded the truck, a twenty eight foot trailer, mostly full to come down. Things didn't quite work out as originally planned but the company we hired got our things down here in good shape. Some friends came and helped with the unloading which included a dip in the pool. The weather was almost one hundred degrees with high humidity. The unloading went quickly. While the men were unloading, I went to a nearby town and purchased our new washer and dryer along with, unexpectedly, a new over the range microwave. It was discovered while moving in the one in place would do everything except warm food...not good. Things are now down to where final decisions will have to be made on things to donate, toss, or eventually have a sale.
The next step was to get our drivers licenses. Getting mine turned into an all day affair. My first stop at a license bureau was totally unfruitful as this office didn't handle out of state license transfers. The next stop showed I had forgotten my birth certificate to go along with my old license (you are required to have two proofs of identity) so a forty mile round trip back to Fairview was in order. While home I decided to grab our copy of the warranty deed to the house with the way things had been going. It was a good thing I did as you are also required two pieces of proof of ownership of property. I still ended up having to sign an affidavit stateing we actually lived at the address in Fairview because our copy of the warranty deed wasn't certified. I was about to the end of things when I flunked the vision test. I think more to the fact I misunderstood the gentlemans directions than my recently diagnosed glaucoma. This made for a seventy mile round trip to the eye doctor to get a form made out. With my third stop at this office, and over one hundred miles on the car, I walked out with my prize....a drivers license!! After all the hubbub I had Ter drive home because I was just plain worn out.
Things are settling more into a routine, which I prefer, and becoming more familiar. I am slowly learning the area. We are beginning to get established in a church. We have seen some interesting things here like buzzards hopping around the pool area then flying up to fence posts to look in the house at us which was a little disconcerting. We also found a baby snake in the pool filter when cleaning it...thank goodness it was a baby. Who knows what else God has for us here in Tennessee
