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Packrat's Progress

Packrat's Progress

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Stories and tips of packing, cleaning, and moving with packrats. Articles include gardening, home maintenance, or other tidbits from the process of clearing out one home and setting up another. Guest blogs from two terriers give us their viewpoints.

Recent Posts

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    Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 17:38 in gardening, old stuff found

    Last week got totally out of hand here, but at least we finally closed on the old house on Friday afternoon, and spent most of Saturday putting plants in the ground. I unpacked four boxes of “good” dishes today, only to discover that I...

  • Back in business, still unpacking, have a cuppa coffee on me

    Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 14:53 in coffee, moving, server problems

    I think I’m down to no boxes in the living room or dining room, and only a few in the family room. My office has gained a few that I got out of storage last week but haven’t had time to unpack yet. We had a server error last week, so Pack...

  • One month later - improvements and birds

    Posted on Monday August 18th, 2008 at 16:36 in moving, gardening, wildlife, birds

    We’ve been living in the house now for a little over a month. The majority of boxes are unpacked, but after all this time there are still shelves to be put up in a couple of closets, cabinets to be mounted in the sewing/craft room, furniture to...

  • Warranty work and other busy-ness

    Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 20:24 in painting, contractors, moving, roofing, blinds, warranty, buying and selling, sprinklers

    Things here are frantically plugging along. The inlaws are due in for a visit tomorrow. Wednesday the guy from the warranty department for the builder was here to see what to do about the list I sent him back on Monday. We got the carpet cleaned at t...

  • A visitor to the new house

    Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 15:41 in bugs, praying mantis

    Found this guy on the guest bedroom window this afternoon. He’s a good six inches long. My guess is that he’s been feeding on the multitude of dragon flies and spiders around here that feed on the other smaller critters. Such is life with...

  • Still unpacking

    Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 19:21 in moving, unpacking

    Well, it’s been a while since my last post. We’re living at the new house, the kitchen is pretty much operational, we’re sleeping in our own bed, and my office is starting to look like an office. The main computers are functional an...

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