It's been a hurried last month of packing, cleaning, painting, and generally making tidy in preparation to put our little house on the market. We spent a lot of time dealing with STUFF, and the problem of how it got there and now what to do with it. Sentimental attachments were severed. Records were sold. Pottery was gifted to friends. Loads went to the scrapyard, the dump, and the salvation army. We're now a little bit lighter, and the house is up for sale. I shed one tear when we left, but then I turned up the radio and drank some coffee and looked forward to the Next Big Thing.
Scranton was good to us. We're leaving a group of fantastically sarcastic, hard working, fun loving friends, and I'm going to miss them. Fig Street was a great neighborhood - kind and comfortable. When I think about missing our house - it's that, the comfort and security - that I'll miss the most. Warmth, privacy, dryness... Cooking, refrigeration, hot showers. Wifi. All so easy!
The summer ahead will be a little more roughin' it. I'm happy about that, because I haven't done it in awhile, and it makes me feel like the Me I remember. The Me I like more. I will occasionally feel sad that I can not curl up with Twin Peaks on Netflix at the end of a long day, but... maybe I'll be too tired for that anyway.
So, we're in Vermont, at my parent's house, and will soon be at our land, building the platform our big canvas tent will sit on for the summer.
I know you all can't wait to see the toilet, but it's still missing a key detail, the seat. Soon, my friends, soon. Now, I'm off to Agway to see if they have peeps and ducklings. Please don't let me buy any.
2 comments:
Such a sweet house! I'd find it hard to leave as well, but certainly the new owner will appreciate all the great karma!
It's a beautiful house, and just much like I pictured it. Hard to say goodbye to something so sweet. Yesterday and today we packed 257 boxes/objects into an ABF trailer, mostly from Michael's studio in Bklyn. We'll meet it in Santa Fe the third week in May. We won't be there full time for two more months, but my heart is already there. I look forward to the news from VT.
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