Back on the Grid

I now have an Internet connection at the place we're setting up for my mom's house and our part-time place here in California. I have telephone since the contractor building the garage and retaining walls actually looked and so found the lines the phone guy didn't. I have an electricity account now that PG and E figured out what happened to this not-yet-occupied house in their system, though we have had power all along.

And I have e-mail. I have answers already sent to the urgent messages in the backlog. I have a little pile of more real messages sorted out to get answers tomorrow - in between helping my mother with more of her packing and sorting now that I've finished mine.

I have caught up on sleep, pretty much.

I have less space than in our previous house here and one more person to fit in it - one who'll actually live here full-time. I have enough closet systems and shelves assembled to accommodate somewhere between half and 3/4 of what my mother has sorted out as The Essentials. I have a different concept of what actually constitutes The Essentials but my mom is getting there.

I have 928 New Items in my Bloglines Notifier to read.

What I don't have is knitting. Until I could take today as down-time, I included my hands in my every-muscle-in-my-body-aches comments. I included my brain in the list of things I lost in the move. I think it may be in the same place as the top sheet from the second set of sheets for my mother's bed.

I do have some photos of an Acacia blooming a couple blocks from the new house. The climate here just barely allows for things like Acacia in a few perfect spots and with the occasional cold snap that wipes them out. The summer heat toughens them up enough to make it through most years.

With Acacias blooming on a 70 degree day in the first week of April, who really cares if they can fit in giant economy sizes of saltines and window cleaner or a year's supply of Kleenex?

Comments

[RobinH]

I certainly wouldn't! You're bringing back memories of my own prior moves...enjoy downtime, you've definitely earned it!

We're taking another run-up at the 60s this week, and the daffodils are cautiously probing above the earth to see if anything freezes off. Spring isn't so much arriving as sidling in furtively, but we're getting there!