Monday, September 6, 2021

Momentum!

Moving house is exhausting work! Making it what I think will work, even more tiring. Picking up where I believe I left off, Beth and I went to Syracuse and back yesterday, to retrieve the enamel topped table. 

Sadly, it is being fumigated in the barn because K is very allergic to mold, and the table legs of wood had some. It is being treated with ozone and dangerous things, and we'll have a table in a bit.

Beth and I had a great time, as mothers and daughters can do. We took K's truck, which needs its air conditioning repaired. In the morning it was not a problem. By afternoon, it was. Just like Beth's childhood, and mine.

There was no toll road pass associated with the truck, either, so it was my opportunity to contact Illinois, who hold my pass, straighten out its hijacking a while back, put some money back on it, and also K's truck plate.

Every time we approached a toll reader, Beth, who was driving, held the transponder up to the appropriate place on the windshield until we were through. When we traded seats, I tried to hold the little thing to its place in the window, and no longer have the reach.


A search in the glove box for anything suitable produced a roll of packing tape, with which I am all too familiar of late. That problem solved!

We arrived at the table location. I was reading the GPS, and Beth said, "Oh, that place with the table in the driveway!"

Beth in the red shirt, Nancy in center and her newly high school graduate son left. Nancy is a dentist for thirty eight years, and the table started out with the family back in the thirties, at great aunt Martha's.

As we dove away, I felt like a kid, bending over and looking between my legs. The crew had packed it like a jigsaw puzzle and it arrived home as well as it left the old.

We stopped for lunch at the Elm Street Café, in Tully, New York. Those tomatoes are from some local garden, as is the lettuce. Beth ate every one of those onion rings, after she sent the picture to France, at school in Colorado!

And back home, I'm getting more and more organized. My back remains very, very sore, but a tad better daily. I finished tying on the warp today, and will take up weaving one day next week, but not before a flu shot and lunches with old friends.


46 comments:

  1. Well, lady- you are doing it! And soon it will be done and you can relax and bask in the glory of your new surroundings. I just hope your back will allow you to enjoy it all as you should be able to. As always, you are an inspiration to me.

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  2. Moving is exhausting and painful at any age, but especially the older we get. It hurts muscles we don't even know we have! I'm glad it's getting done and coming together. I love onion rings! You remind me I need to get a flu shot in the near future.

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  3. Hari OM
    You ARE doing well... although it will of course take some time to feel properly (re)settled. Especially as although old, the place is new again... rather fitting that! YAM xx

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  4. I must be truly commiserating with you as I woke this morning with stiffness and pain in my lower back. Two Salonpas patches and I was good to go. Do take it easy. It is a holiday and you have every right to take it off!

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  5. Glad things are falling into place, I need to get a flu shot. Thanks for the reminder

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  6. Your move is very eventful. A ride to Syracuse and you've secured the table of choice. Moving comes with so many challenges and unknowns. You seem to take it all in stride and that is best. By the way, that lunch you picture looks so good...

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  7. your lunch ! Best looking lunch I have seen in a very long time if ever!

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  8. Hey it’s me Chicken. I’ve been catching up on all your travels, your towels etc. I don’t know where the summer went. Congrats on your move-I hope it’s a good thing. I’ve been selling things on eBay also-the shipping is the hardest part to figure out!

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  9. Road trips are always fun, although they can wear you out! I love furniture with a history. Looks like things are falling into place.

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  10. I can't remember where in Ohio you live - how far of a drive was that? It seems far, no matter where you started. There is nothing like moving to suck the marrow right out of your bones. It seems like it will never be done, and then there is the prospect of spending the bulk of winter painting doors, door frames and baseboard and trying to only paint a few walls and not all of them. Your studio looks lovely, I really really like that rug.

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    1. 5.5 hours one way. Plus gas, plus lunch, the usual. We were 12 hours on the road. We laughed away about 10.

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  11. Sounds like an exciting time, even if it's tiring and making your back sore.

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  12. Moving is H.A.R.D. And it doesn’t happen overnight. When we moved here I arranged everything in the kitchen, and then a week later pulled most everything out and arranged it again.

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  13. Sounds like what could have been a dull trip was saved by laughter with your daughter and a great lunch! i wondered about France. A few weeks ago i discovered that he had taken down his blog. I hope he saved a copy for himself---all those days bicycling across Vietnam. One sharp kid, that one! Your workshop is a thing of beauty; all set to turn out more wonderful towels. When you feel up to the task.

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  14. If the ozone treatment doesn't work are you able to buy new table legs and have them fitted? I am also allergic to mould.

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  15. You must be exhausted with the packing, move and then a trip to get the table. I hope the mold removal works. I can understand the problem it causes as I am allergic to it too. I've never heard of using ozone but if it works that's great. Everything looks wonderful! I see you got the sewing machine table moved to where you wanted it. I'd like it under the window too.

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  16. I am so glad that you are putting weaving behind lunches with friends (and the flu shot). And yes, even thinking about moving is tiring, let alone doing it.

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  17. Oh, a flu shot! I forgot about those--must get one.

    Isn't it great to be a maker/artist? You always have your work to get back to after inconveniences like moving.

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  18. A fun day with your daughter! What a treat!

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  19. Your adventure for the table sounds like fun. Glad you’re setting in back home, Joanne. You’ll need a good rest to recuperate from this moving business!

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  20. home again, home again in more ways than one. didn't you just give away your enamel table only to replace it with another?

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  21. Good to see everything gradually coming into place..a job best not rushed xx

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  22. I hope your back just keeps getting better. So hard to function with a hurt back. And moving is so unsettling and just plain hard! The prepping - the move itself - the unpacking - the arranging - the rearranging! Exhausting!

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  23. Aspercreme helps backs. :) Oh, what a charmer of a trip delightfully documented. I do like the room.

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  24. Dear Joanne, thanks for such a unique sharing or your trip there and back. You could write travelogues or those books about what to do on trips. I'm so hoping that your back pain will vamoose. Back pain as well as foot pain can cause so many problems because of the way we adjust our walking to accommodate the pain. Hope that's not happening to you. Peace.

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  25. Moving, and then a trip! You are one busy bee.

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  26. You're nearly there! Brava Indeed! Settle in sloooowly, you have all the time in the world to get organized and ready to rock!

    XO
    WWW

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  27. You have been quite busy, Joanne. Take care of that back too. Take care and have a great rest of your week.

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  28. Syracuse NY??? Oh my. I had family connections and spent a lot of time there.

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  29. You are making wonderful progress. I hope your back doesn't stay sore for too long.

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  30. You are nothing if not a warrior, Joanne. This move has been a whole pile of stress and you have handled it with aplomb. The first time the loom is clacking away will be just reward. Soon.

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  31. I haven't had breakfast yet, and that food pic is making my mouth water.

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  32. It seems not that long ago since your last move. Always an adventure. It's great that you have great assistants.

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  33. I am so glad you arrived safe and in such a wonderful journey, Joanne. All my blessings to your new home! And I wish that you will soon work on your beautiful weaving. XXX

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  34. Goodness, you've been busy. No wonder you're exhausted! Luckily we don't yet have any toll roads in the UK so no problems there. I love onion rings. I would have eaten them all as well.

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  35. I am glad to see you have had some help and that the new place is slowly taking shape and I'm sorry you are having any pain. I hope that subsides quickly. You would enjoy that cookie recipe.

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  36. Those onion rings look good!

    Moving house is exhausting, but the start of a new exciting chapter I hope!

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  37. Wow! I'm amazed at what a busy life you lead, Joanne. Moving is such a stressful time, but even with your backache, you're able to carry on. You're awesome!

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  38. Ahhhh... my daughter has that I-Pass on her car too. We never got one since we didn't drive out on the tollway that often.

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  39. Hope you are doing well, Joanne, and your new abode is treating you well.

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