Liz, of course also has a lot of affection for certain heirlooms and other things too nice to just give up. So, there is a fair amount of stuff we need to store somewhere. Fortunately, Liz has a friend (well, several, actually) named Kay Bruns who is blessed with a large room above her garage she has no use for. Saturday we boxed up the essential cast-offs and prepared them for transport. On Sunday we rented a truck, recruited another friend of Liz's - Tim Parlin ( a fine handyman and for hire - Liz will be glad to introduce him) and moved them to Kay's. A sweaty day indeed.
Some before and afters.
There is a lot more to go in the next week. A very cute young couple will be around to buy that god-awful heavy desk and some other stuff in my man-cave, er, office and there is at least one van-load for my parents and brothers to distribute. All in all, a good start. With a whole (only) 18 days to go.
Have I bragged about my ghost peppers lately? It turns out that hot peppers (maybe all peppers, I don't know) are perennials. If they don't get frosted they can go on quite a while. I brought mine inside last year, just to see. A nice thing about potting. This year, they're outperforming last year by a bunch. Maybe I just lucked onto the right fertilizer. These fiery little dudes are NOT to be eaten raw - cooking only. I've picked 3 or four dozen and there's that much more left on the two plants. They go to my niece Sarah, who begged to be allowed to take over their care.
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