Well, it is not the next day! Life has a way of disrupting the best laid plans. ~smile~
It was a really nice weekend though. I was especially encouraged by our Church service on Sunday. We are blessed with a really wonderful pastor and his messages always have a way of getting a hold of you and drawing you closer to God. Even to hear him pray just inspires you. God is working through Him to be sure.
Anyway! On with the adventure. We sold our house and then had a month to move. We were kind of in shock to say the least. 😲 The first thing we did was to arrange a storage unit. so at least we would have somewhere to put all the boxes we were packing while we tried to figure out our next move. There was only one available and we got it.
To add to our fun the only condition of the sale was to have the bats that were found in the attic during the home inspection and their "gifts" professionally removed before the closing date. We foolishly thought that would not be a problem. HA! The first guy we called no longer did our area. The second was the most pompous and rude man I have ever spoken with and he wanted a minimum of $10,000 to remove the bats then the fee for clean up on top of that - thousands more! After that we called so many more companies only to hear that we were out of their area.
Finally after A LOT of prayer my hubby Mark found a man who grew up near our town and though it was out of his area he agreed to come because he liked to "look after his own". Praise the Lord! He was not sure if he would be able to do the clean up - he said it would depend on how big a job it was. My hubby called around to restoration companies one of which said it would be minimum $7000 just for cleanup!
After having a look it turned out that the bat guy could do the whole job. A huge answer to prayer again. But another obstacle was in the way....he had called around for a boom lift when we first contacted him and he got laughed at. He was told he would have had to reserve one months earlier. He decided to try again in case there was a cancellation and much to his surprise and the rental man's there was one and it could be delivered to our house by noon. Later Bat Guy told us he would have walked away if he couldn't have gotten one because sealing the house would have been just too hard without it. God is so good!!!
So many big answers to prayer - what a huge relief! The price to do the whole entire job was less than just the clean up estimates of the other companies. Wow!
Meanwhile we were trying to find a place to live. We do have our house up North but we need to remain down south for my hubby's work for a while before we finally move up there full time.
The only trouble is there are virtually NO places to rent. No houses, no apartments, not even a shed. When places come up they are gone instantly since on kijiji there are at least 15 home wanted ads for every one home available.
We heard from a friend about an apartment in a town 30 minutes away. I went to look at it and it had been partially renovated and they did a great job. However it was over a store on the main street, the door was off the back parking lot. The toilet had a big bug floating in it along with about 6 months of filth. It had 2 bedrooms but neither had a window. In fact there were only 2 windows in the whole apartment and they only had small square windows at the bottom that actually opened. If there was ever a fire you would never be able to escape out them. So that was off the list!
Now we were facing the possibility of using hubby's vacation days to go up north for a week then back and stay in a hotel for a week. Back and forth until we are able to move fully. Not a great option especially since we called about a weekly rate at the motel near by and the price made that a no go.
2 weeks to go now and no other option on the horizon! Yikes! Then one of the guys who works with Mark came to talk with him and said that his sister had a cottage in a subdivision by the lake and she just got called back in to work and would not be needing it. She was willing to rent it. Wow!
She was so super sweet and we ended up renting from her. It is fully furnished which was perfect for us as my sister was going to take most of our furniture when we moved up North finally so she was able to take it sooner. Everything is included in rent even the internet. What a blessing to not have to worry about connection costs or anything. God really provided just what we needed at the last minute! She is very flexible and ok wether it is 2 months or 6 we are here.
Then the move.... I feel like I should insert some sinister movie music here. LOL!
Praise the Lord Mark had gotten a trailer for our four wheeler several months ago and we were able to do all the moving with that and the box of our truck. It was just deciding what was going to the cottage, what was going up North and what was going to the storage unit. Whew! What a job! In 20 years you can certainly FILL a house!
We fully moved 2 days before closing and the day before we went back to clean. It took a surprising amount of time to clean an empty house but it was worth it the new owners let us know how pleased they were.~smile~ I had left them a package with all the manuals and receipts for the appliances, decorating samples and info., take out menus for a place we recommend, a letter with info. about the house and town - just things I thought they might like to know or would find helpful. I also left a welcome home card and a loaf of Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake.
One last hurdle. Piggy. Our very fat, very spoiled, very skittish cat. The last car ride I took her on ( to the vet) her eyes shook back and forth so much so that the vet thought she had a spinal cord injury!
Poor little thing. So this time I thought I would get her some sedative. After a phone consultation with the vet and emails with pictures I was able to get some medicine to sedate her and help with car sickness and dizziness. Only one problem - she knew it was in the food and would not eat it....at least all at once.
So we ended up with a slightly dopey and unhappy cat for the ride. *sigh*
So after ALL of that we are here in the cottage at last!
It took some getting used to life in the cottage as we have to get up earlier so Mark can drive 20 minutes to meet the friend he rides with to work but I am able to drive him and keep the truck if I need it which is a blessing. Also it is strange living in a house full of things that are not yours. We are living out of boxes, totes and suitcases but it is temporary. ~smile~ Life is good, Piggy has adjusted after hiding for several days and I am finding the things I thought I knew where I had packed them but was wrong. ~smile~ God is so good and has been with us through it all!
I guess that is more than enough for today.
Happy Monday!
Blessings,
Liisa
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